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{{Infobox Mandir
|name = Hayagriva Madhava Temple
|image = হয়গ্ৰীৱ মাধব মন্দিৰ, হাজো.jpg
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|caption = Hayagriva Madhava Temple
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|map_size = 250
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|country = [[India]]
|state = [[Assam]]
|district = [[Kamrup Rural district|Kamrup]]
|locale = [[Hajo]]
|deity = [[Jagannath]], [[Buddha]]
|festivals = Doul Utsav, [[Bihu]], [[Janmastami]]
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|creator = Urbarishi <br/>Reconstructed by: Raghudeva Narayan
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'''Hayagriva Madhava Temple''' is situated on the Monikut hill.<ref name="bharatonline1">{{cite web|url=http://www.bharatonline.com/assam/hajo/hayagriva-temple.html |title=Hayagriva Madhava Temple - Hayagriva Madhava Temple Hajo, Hayagriva Madhava Temple Assam |publisher=Bharatonline.com |access-date=2013-04-23}}</ref> The hill is situated in [[Hajo]] of [[Kamrup District]] in [[Assam, India]]. Which is around 30 km to west of [[Guwahati]].<ref name="bharatonline1"/> The [[Kalika Purana]] composed in the 11th century CE in Kamarupa talks about the origin of this form of [[Vishnu]] and his final establishment in the hill of Monikut, where the present temple is located. <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lavoni|first=Sama|date=2014|title=SHAYAGRIVA MADHAVA TEMPLE AND SACRED GEOGRAPHY OF HAJO|journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|volume=75|pages=364–370|issn=2249-1937|jstor=44158404}}</ref> The present temple structure was constructed by the King Raghudeva Narayan in 1583.<ref>{{cite web |author=MustSeeIndia.com |url=http://www.mustseeindia.com/Hajo-Hayagriva-Madhava-Temple/attraction/19063 |title=Hajo: Hayagriva Madhava Temple, Hajo Tourist Places to Visit for |publisher=Mustseeindia.com |access-date=2013-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721024948/http://www.mustseeindia.com/Hajo-Hayagriva-Madhava-Temple/attraction/19063 |archive-date=21 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to some historians the King of [[Pala dynasty (Kamarupa)|Pala dynasty]] constructed it in 10th century. It is a stone temple and it enshrines an image of [[Hayagriva]] Madhava. Some [[Buddhist]]s believe that the [[Hayagriva]] Madhava temple, best known in the group of [[Hindu]] temples, is where the [[Buddha]] attained [[Nirvana]]. At this imposing temple, the presiding deity is Vishnu, worshipped in the sanctum sanctorum as an idol carved of black stone. Four other stone idols are also in worship as subsidiary deities.

A most striking feature of the temple is the continuous row of elephants carved on the lowest level of the temple walls - a structure akin to the stone cut temple of Ellora. The outer walls of the shrine is also covered with relief figures of the ten incarnations of Vishnu, devotees in procession and episodic scenes from the [[Ramayana]] and the [[Mahabharata]]. There is a big pond known as Madhab Pukhuri near the temple. Doul, [[Bihu]] and [[Janmastami]] festivals are celebrated every year in the temple.

Sayani, the first wife of Kalia Bhomora Borphukan donated a family of paiks and also a plot of land for their maintenance to the Hayagriva Madhava temple during the reign of [[Ahom Dynasty|Ahom]] king [[Kamaleswar Singha]]. The lamps in the sanctum sancotrum are never put off (akhanda deep) ever. Oil flows into the big earthen lamps through a simple tube connected to the oil tin.{{cn|date=March 2020}}

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>Rasnaboy at 17:31, 9 June 2021