Miraculous was the Advent of Lord Doul-Govinda who had remained underground, not precisely known for how long, in the quiet woods of Sandhya-Jhar near village JEKERIA in Rongia Sub- division of Kamrup district. It is said a milchcow was noticed by people to have gone to the same woods every pre-dawn, freeing herself of the cow-shed where her Brahmin owner used to rope her at night. The cow used to take her stand at a fixed spot whereupon milk flowed spontaneously from her udder on a Birina grass bush. This uncommon phenomenon reached the ears of the Sadar-Amin of Nalbari who was none but the late Gargaram Barooah of Rajaduar, North Guwahati, father of the late Anunda Ram Barooah, the first Assamese to hold the ICS under the British regime, and later a great Sanskrit scholar and Orientalist of world-wide fame. One morning Sadar Amin Gargaram Barooah set out for the woods on back of an elephant to see for himself the uncommon sight and he surprised to find a magnificant of Lord Sri Krishna playing the flute, when he got the spot excavated. An account recorded in his novel DANDUA-DROH by the late Rajanikanta Bardoloi who functioned as Magistrate in-charge of land settlement in Rongia area, indicated the existence of the village Jekeria in the same woods of Sandhyajhar where Hara Dutta and Beer Dutta Boruahs had their Haveli. These two brothers rose in rebellion against the Ahom hegemony and declared independence whereupon men of the Ahom Barphukon Kaliya Bhomora of Guwahati chased and vanquished them. They were caught and slain later on. Before that Haradutta fled his home village out of panic. It is surmised that before he left the village, he had kept their family Deity hidden under the ground at village Jekeria, later turned into jungles, named SandhyaJhar. The image of Lord Krishna found by Gargaram Barooah Sadar-Amin might or might be the family deity of Haradutta. Here comes a question mark for want of reliable linkage.

Sadar-Amin Gargaram Barooah received the image of Lord Krishna with great reverence and ceremoniously brought the image in a procession with pomp and grandeur, band beating etc to his home village Rajadooar where, as advised by his Guru, he installed Loard's image as a deity at his village Namghar with Puja-Archana (rituals of worship), in co-operation of his kinsmen and co-villagers. Meanwhile the annual Holi.-Festival was nearing in the month of Faguna and the members were in great dilemma; for until then original Namghar deity had been the image of Lord Shyam Rai, another form of Lord Sri Krishna; and unable to decide as to which of the two deities they should place on the doul during the Holi festival days, It is said that priest prayed and left the decision to be indicated by the two deities for resolution of the impasse, and to his surprise, the priest found on the following morning the new image of Lord Sri Krishna to have taken stand a few inches ahead of the image of Lord Shyam Rai on the altar. The priest and members of the Namghar had no difficulty in deciding the preference and they accordingly installed the new image of Lord Sri Krishna on the Doul was an outhouse temple at the courtyard of the Namghar for celebrating the Holi festival. Since then, the new image of Lord Sri Krishna came to be recognised as Lord Doul Govinda. After some time, the image of Lord Shyam Rai fell down from the throne of the Namghar and lost one hand. Thus the idol of Lord Shyam Rai got itself removed from the sanctum of the Mandir.

Devotees congregate every morning in the Mandir premises of Lord Doul Govinda and wait agog in long queue for pretty long, sometimes for hours, to offer obeisance to the deity at the sanctum sanctorum. Such congreations reach peak size, swelling into several thousands in number, during winter months of Magha & Faguna and also in the beginning of the year in Bohag. Blissful devotion (Bhakti-Rosa) pervades the place sanctifying every soul that comes here. All wordly cravings get sublimated in human heart with total surrender at feet of the Lord Doul Govinda. Devotees are attracted to this shrine at Raja-dooar from all directions. Some come by road and others crossing the Brahmaputra from the south bank by ferry-service or enginefitted boats (in place of country boats of earlier times). Every day the message of Lord Doul-Govinda goes spreading to the nook and the corner of this part of planet.

The Mandir Premises: The beckoning landscape opposite the city of Guwahati across the mighty Brahmaputra is UTTAR-GUWAHATI :A semi township, it is that adores the holy shrine of Lord Doul Govinda at the eastern part historically wellknown as Raja-dooar, meaning the king's gate. The den of the city Guwahati flows down the river leaving North Guwahati alone, a place in quiet solitude.

The Mandir premises a place of divine bliss are of recent construction started in seventies of the last century with donation/ contribution from devotees. The project for construction of devotees rest house taken up near the Mandir premises has been completed and is ready for occupation. The location of the Mandir, the Doul and the two openhalls with other adjunct sheds is on a strip of high land cut out and levelled on the northern slope of the Chandra Bharoti hillock. Whereas the main Mandir of the sanctum and the open hall in the front and the Douls to the eastern side are all concrete structures, the second open hall in front of the Douls is of Assam type roof The Bat- Chora (i.e. the gate) and the entire Mandir premises present a graceful look to any visitor bringing about a serence atmosphere to the locality. The campus is a well-laid-out project of the public of Raja-Dooar in collaboration of other devotees of the neighbouring areas. All these new constructions in place of the old Namghar, Monikut and Doul have come to being with the grace of Lord Doul-Govinda.

The Pilgrimage: As a devotee proceeds to Raja-Dooar to seek blessings of the wakeful Lord he or she feels elated by the beauty of the surroundings passed by on the way. The journey is more pleasant and attractive if made by crossing the river by steamer service from the south bank. As the steamer.-it may be also an engined-boat,leaves the south bank at Guwahati the pilgrim leaves behind him the temples of Sukleswara Shiva and Janardana at the river side, and passes by the small rocky islets of Karmanasha and Urvoshi and the Shiva-Shrine on the Rock Umannanda midstream mythologically known as Bhasmachala where a crowded Sive- Ratri Mela is a big attraction every year. The steamer or the engined boat moves north-eastern direction towards the green hillock of Manikarneswar at the north bank, whereon is located the temple of," Mani-Shaila Maheswara, another shrine of attraction for devotees of Lord Shive, specially on the Shivaratri day.

About five kilometers downstream to the west is sighted the Saraighat Bridge, a bridge ever constructed over the Brahmaputra only on the wake of 1962-Chinse aggression. Nearer in the north-west comes up the view of the hillock of Ashwakranta. In summer, the sandy alluvions midstream as well as on the banks of the river get submerged under water to come up again in winter, but the green all around interspersed with full-bloom red flowers of Krishna-Chora groves gets facelity soothing to eyes. The current is sweeping in the river with whirlpools here and there, and the steamer or engined boat takes longer, say half- an-hour or more sometimes, moving upstream to reach the north bank. But the return journey takes only half the time to reach the south bank. In winter the trip only a few minutes ro cross the river which is reduced to only half-akilometer in its span, with sluggish current midstream.

The temple premises of Lord Doul Govinda is only a few minutes walk from the ferry approach at the river bank. The pilgrim walks down the actual king's gate-way, the historical Raja- Dooar from which term is derived the name Raja Dooar of this segment of North Guwahati.

Pilgrims who travel by road crossing the river over the Saraighat bridge see the other side in the west, hillocks all around leaving behind the Nilachal-Bhubaneswari hills with temples of mother-goddess Kamakhya and goddesses Bagala Devi and Bhubaneswari thereon. They get only distant view of the sights to the east, that are seen by one who crosses the river by steamer or boat. It is about half-an-hour journey by vehicle from Saraighat bridge to the temple of Lord Doul-Govinda at Rajadooar.