Parshuram Kund

Parshuram Kund is a Hindu shrine and sacred bathing pool on the Lohit River in the eastern Himalayan foothills, near Sadiya, which in 1337 lay at the heart of the Chutia kingdom. It is dedicated to Parashurama, the axe-wielding sixth avatar of Vishnu; pilgrims hold that a dip in its waters washes away sin.

The annual gathering takes place at Makar Sankranti in January, when devotees and sadhus travel there from Assam, Manipur and Nepal. Brahmanical Vaishnavism took root at the Chutia court in the late fourteenth century, and the shrine kept drawing pilgrims after the Ahom kingdom overran Sadiya in 1523 and 1524, when the region passed under Ahom rule.