Pilgrimages of Devi Bhuvaneshwari

► ► Kamrup Kamakhya (235 m) (Shakti Peetha) (Ashta Dasha Shakti Peetha)
(Kamrup district, Assam)

▬ River Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo) flows
◼ Saubhagya Kunda (Inside Kamakhya Temple)
◼ Bhairavi Kunda (Inside Bhairavi Temple)
◼ Durga Kunda (Western side of Kamakhya Temple)
(Assam Valley)

(Kalika Purana)
(Yogini Tantra)
(Peetha Nirnaya Tantra)

Kamrup Kamakhya Temple is a famous place of Tantra practice and is identified with the Kamagiri Shakti Peetha mentioned in the Peetha Nirnaya Tantra. This kshetra is also known as Kubjika Peetha and Mahamudra Peetha. The place is known as Kamrup because Kamadeva who was reduced to ashes by Lord Shiva, again regained his form in this place by the grace of the Goddess (Kalika Purana). It is said that Devi is difficult to be found in other places, but in Kamarup, Devi abides in many houses (Yogini Tantra).

• Devi: Devi abides in Kamrup as Kamagiri Shakti Peetha (identified with Devi Kamrup Kamakhya). Kamrup is also an Ashta Dasha Shakti Peetha.
- Devi also abides in Kamrup as Dasha Mahavidyas.
- Further Devi abides in Kamrup in various other forms like Devi Ugratara, Devi Dirgheshwari etc.
- Kamrup Kamakhya Temple

- Kamrup Kamakhya is a powerful place of Tantra with Dasha Mahavidya Temples in it. The Mahavidyas are:
(1) Devi Kali (a little away from the main gate of Kamakhya Temple)
(2) Devi Tara (very near the main gate of the Kamakhya Temple)
(3) Devi Tripurasundari (within the Kamakhya Temple)
(4) Devi Bhuvaneshwari (few km away from the Kamakhya Temple)
(5) Devi Tripurabhairavi (near the back gate of the Kamakhya Temple)
(6) Devi Chinnamasta (around half km away from the main gate of the Kamakhya Temple)
(7) Devi Dhumavati (near the back gate of the Kamakhya Temple)
(8) Devi Bagalamukhi (around a km away from the main gate of the Kamakhya Temple)
(9) Devi Matangi (within the Kamakhya Temple)
(11) Devi Kamalatmika (within the Kamakhya Temple)

- Devi Ugratara
- Devi Dirgheshwari

योनिपीठं कामगिरौ कामाख्या तत्र देवता । यत्रास्ते त्रिगुणातीता रक्तपाषाणरूपिणी ॥
यत्रास्ते माधवः साक्षादुमानन्दोऽथ भैरवः । सर्वदा विहरेद्देवी तत्र मुक्तिर्न संशयः ॥
- Shakti Peetha Stotram - verses 20 and 21 (Kamrup has the Kamagiri Shakti Peetha where the Yoni of Devi had fallen)


(Kalika Purana)
(Yogini Tantra)
(Peetha Nirnaya Tantra)

▬ Kamagiri Shakti Peetha: I meditate on the Kamagiri Shakti Peetha where the Yoni (Generative Organ) of Devi had fallen. The Devi there is known as Kamakhya and the Bhairava is called Umananda.
(Peetha Nirnaya Tantra - Shakti Peetha Stotram - verse 20)

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