Mahamaya Dham Shakti Peetha

Mahamaya Dham stands at Bogribari in Lower Assam, near Bilasipara and within the Parbatjhora area. The shrine is dedicated to Goddess Mahamaya and is one of the region’s best-known centres of Shakta devotion. Assam government tourism information records a long-established ritual tradition at the temple, while accounts of the site describe worship by communities including the Kachari, Koch and Nath peoples and later patronage connected with the local zamindari.

In the regional Shakti Peetha tradition represented in this database, the shrine is associated with a finger of Sati. The goddess is worshipped as Mahamaya, but the sources used do not provide a consistently established Bhairava name. This attribution should therefore be presented as a respected Lower Assam tradition rather than merged with the body-part and deity pairings of better documented classical Peetha lists.

Durga Puja is the temple’s principal annual celebration and draws pilgrims from across Lower Assam. Government information also notes the shrine’s centuries-old tradition of animal offerings during the festival, a practice that has attracted contemporary debate. A related sacred place, Mahamaya Snaanghat, lies beside the Tipkai River and is associated in local belief with the goddess’s ritual bathing. Together, these sites form an important regional pilgrimage landscape centred on Mahamaya.