boulder bay chalet Of four Hindu temples around the palace compound, the most fanciful is Jagannath Mandir (h4am-2pm &

Guwahati is considered the site of Pragjyotishpura, a semi-mythical town founded by Asura King Naraka who was later killed by Lord Krishna for a pair of magical earrings. The city was a vibrant cultural centre well before the Ahoms arrived, and later it was the theatre of intense Ahom Mughal

Of four Hindu temples around the palace compound, the most fanciful is Jagannath Mandir (h4am-2pm boulder bay chalet & 4-9pm). Its massive sculptured portico leads into a complex with wedding-cake architecture boulder bay chalet painted in ice-cream sundae colours. Several royal mausoleums are decaying quietly on the riverbank behind Batala market. To get to them walk west down HGB Rd, turn left at Ronaldsay Rd and right along the riverbank. Chaturdasha Devata Mandir (Temple of Fourteen Deities) hosts a big seven-day Kharchi Puja festival boulder bay chalet in July in Old Agar- tala, 7km east down Assam Agartala (AA) Rd (NH44) at Kayerpur.

SATRAS A satra is a monastery for Vishnu worship, Assam s distinctive form of everyman Hinduism. Formulated by 15th-century Assamese philosopher Sankardev, the faith eschews the caste system and idol worship, focussing on Vishnu as God, especially in his Krishna incarnation. Much of the worship is based around dance and melodramatic play-acting of scenes from the holy Bhagavad Gita. The heart of any satra is its namghar, a large, simple, prayer hall usually open sided and shaped like an upside-down oil tanker. boulder bay chalet Beneath the eastern end, an inner sanctum hosts an eternal boulder bay chalet flame, the Gita and possibly boulder bay chalet a horde of instructive (but not divine) images.