Lakhs of travellers visit Kamakhya temple

Guwahati, Jun 26 Lakhs of travellers today offered supplications to Goddess Kamakhya after the doors of the Kamakhya temple on the Nilachal Hill here revived subsequent to staying shut for four days .

The doors which were shut from the 22nd of this current month reopened after routine customs and prayers at 6.15 am at the beginning of today with lovers energetically holding up to get a darshan of the Devi.

The faithfuls said they queued up from 2 am to enter Kamakya temple, considered most hallowed and most seasoned of the 51 Shakti Peeths of the nation, with the goal that they could offer their supplications and regard to Maa Kamakhya at the summit of Ambubachi Mela.

Assam Governor Banwarilal Purohit and Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal additionally offered petitions to Goddess Kamakhya on the event of the Ambubachi mela.

The temple this year saw an extraordinary surge of an expected eight lakh explorers from everywhere throughout the nation and abroad meeting at Kamakhya temple on banks of the mighty Brahmaputra for Ambubachi Mela, as indicated by Kamakhya Temple administration sources.

The mela, otherwise called Amoti or Tantric ripeness celebration amid the rainstorm season falling in the Assamese month of Ahaar, is the festival of the yearly feminine cycle course of goddess Kamakhya.

Trusting thetemple's presiding goddess Devi Kamakhya or Mother Shakti or Mother Earth experiences her yearly cycle of period amid this time the entryways of the temple are shut to guests for four days.

As indicated by Hindu convention Ambubachi symbolizes old agrarian idea that Mother Earth is a ripe lady whose womb sprouts seeds.

The temple has no idol of the directing divinity however Goddess Kamakhya is rather adored as a yoni-like (private part/womb) stone over which a characteristic spring streams in the sanctum sanctorum of the sanctuary.

As indicated by the Kalika Purana, Kamakhya Temple signifies the spot where Lord Shiva's significant other Sati's yoni fell after Shiva hit the dance floor with her cadaver, while a later work Yogini Tantra overlooks this and partners Kamakhya with the goddess Kali and underscores the creative symbolism of the yoni.