What is special about the Kamakhya temple?

The Kamakhya Temple is a Hindu temple situated at the Nilachal hills in the famous Guwahati, Assam. This temple is dedicated to the goddess Kamakhya , who is one of the oldest and revered centres of Tantric practices. The uniqueness of this temple is that the site of the Ambubachi Mela, an annual festival that celebrates the menstruation of the goddess. Generally while all the temples do not allow females on menstruation to enter to the temple,this particular temple celebrates menstruation. It is also one of the oldest of these 51 pithas in the Shakta tradition. An obscure place of the worship for much of history, it became the important pilgrimage destination, especially for those from Bengal, in the 19th century . It was built by the Mlechchha dynasty and was Rebuilt by Koch King Nara Narayan and Ahom kings.

An ancient work, the Kalika purana in Sanskrit describes goddess Kamakhya as the yielder of all these desires, the younger bride of lord Shiva, and the giver of salvation. Shakti is Known as Kamakhya and this Tantra is the basis of worship in the precincts of this ancient temple of mother goddess Kamakhya.

This worship of female deity in the state of Assam symbolizes that the "fusion of faiths and practices" of Aryan and non-Aryan elements in Assam. The different names associated with this goddess are names of local Aryan and non-Aryan goddesses. Need to mention about the The Yogini Tantra that says that the religion of the Yogini Pitha is of Kirata origin. According to the Banikanta Kakati, there is a existence of a tradition among priests established by Naranarayana that the Garos, a matrilineal people, offered worship at the earlier Kamakhya site by sacrificing pigs.

The Kamakhya Temple in Gauhati, India is a site of Hindu worship. The temple is devoted to the Mother Goddess Shakti. It was built by King Narasingha Pala and his wife, Queen Durlabha Devi in the late 11th century. The main deity of this temple is a goddess known as Kamakhya or Amba, who represents both Goddess Shakti and Mother Earth. It is said that it was from this formless statue that Lord Shiva's whole body first emerged during the Kama Sutra ceremony with Sati at Kamarupa Province in ancient India.

Kamakhaya temple is located in nilachal hill which os in Guwahati there are many stories about these temple and one of the famous is the mythological womb of goddess shakti is in the garvagriha of the holy temple the river near the temple which is known as brahmaputra river near kamakhaya turns red during ambubachi it is also known as when goddess shakti during her menstrual cycle which is june the river colour change into red.