A History of Assam c7.s2.8

c7.s2.8

different pieces, and wherever each piece fell, the ground was held to be sacred. Her organs of generation fell on Kāmagiri, *i.e.*, the Nilāchal hill near Gauhāti, and the place was thenceforth held sacred to Kāmākhyā, the Goddess of sexual desire.* As Siva still continued to do penance, the other Gods became afraid that he would thereby acquire universal power, and accordingly despatched Kāmdeb, the Indian Cupid, to make him fall in love again, and thereby break his penance. He succeeded in his mission, but so enraged was Siva at the result, that he burnt him to ashes by a fiery glance from the eye in the centre of his forhead. Kāmdeb eventually recovered his original form and the country where this took place became known as Kāmarupa.