Raja-Rajeshwari Puja

Raja-Rajeshwari Puja holds special importance for the initiated practitioners of the Kulacara Tantra Marga of Kamakhya. This Puja is celebrated during the Chaitra Navaratra (spring Navaratra) for fifteen days. The Puja & Rituals starts from the Amavashya and ends on Shukla Purnima Tithi of the month Chaitra (March-April). The organizers and participants of the Raja-Rajeshwari Puja are exclusively the Kaula (initiates) of the Kulacara Tantra Marga privately in temple(s) and at household level by the Kula (the group of initiates) and non-initiates (even from Kamakhya) are not allowed participate. All initiated Kaula Kulacara Tantra Marga of Kamakhya participates in the Puja irrespective of their gender and caste.

The Raja-Rajeshwari Puja starts on the day of Chaitra Amavashya with the Puja of Ganesha and ritualistic installation of the Ghata (sacred pitcher) for the Devi Maha Tripura Sundari. From the Chaitra Pratipada Tithi, in the following days till Chaitra Purnima Maha Tripura Sundari is worshipped in her different manifestations like Kameshwari, Bhagamalini, Kinnari, Bherunda, Vahnivasini, Bajreshwari, Shivaduti, Sarvamangala, Jwalamalini and Vichitra offering sacrifice. Chakra Puja is performed on each night of these 15 days. In the midnight of Purnima (15^th day) the Ghata of the Devi is taken in a procession around the temples’ complex and the Kamakhya Temple by the initiates, and finally ritualistic Visharjana (immersion) of the Ghata is performed in the sacred Saubhagya Kunda (located inside Kamakhya Temple campus).