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Sri Surya Pahar

Sri Surya Pahar is located about 12 km southeast of Goalpara, about 132 km northwest of Guwahati, is a significant  but relatively unknown archaeological site in Assam, India. Goalpara is the nearest city from the site. The site is   a hilly terrain where several rock-cut Shivalingas, votive stupas and the deities of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain  pantheon are scattered in an area of about one km.

The site is centered on the hills (Pahar) of Sri Surya which is  profusely filled up with Shiva Lingas (Lingam). People have found 99999 Shiva Lingas were engraved here by Vyasa
                                    in order to build up a second Kashi (where there were 1,00000 Shiva Lingas) and once it was one of the holiest
                                    pilgrimage sites in the region. There is no historical evidence exactly how many Lingams once dotted in these hills,
                                    but still there are hundreds of them, from tiny to large in size, scattered everywhere at the foot of the hill and
                                    covering the extensive area after centuries of neglect and pilferage. The exact figure of the Lingas (and also other
                                    deities and relics) in the hill is yet to be counted scientifically.