Northeast India

How a tradition frames it · 2 tellings

Krishna alone: Sankardev's Assam

Sankardev's Ekasarana keeps only Krishna as an object of worship and drops Shiva and Brahma from the cult, sung through the Kirtan Ghosha.

How a tradition frames it · 1 telling

Sankardev's Krishna without an image

Sankardev's Assamese Vaishnavism worships Krishna alone through the divine name and the Bhagavata, and in its strictest order sets a book, not an image, on the altar.

Local story · 1 telling

The Brahmaputra, son of Brahma

Brahma sees Amogha, wife of the sage Shantanu, and desires her.

Temple legend · 3 tellings

The demon of the Sahyadri and the Bhima river

A demon oppresses the gods and men from the Sahyadri hills.

In stone and bronze · 1 telling

The queen's tower at Sivasagar

The Ahom queen Ambika, wife of Siva Singha, has the Borpukhuri tank dug between 1731 and 1738.