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The DEOPAHAR is a small hillock by the side of the national highway 39 connecting national highway 37 to Nagaland.It is situated in Numligarh of Golaghat district of Assam state in India and about 20km east of the kaziranga national park and 2km north to the Numaligarh refinary. Atop the hillok there lies the ruins of an ancient temple. In Assamese "Deo " means divine and "Pahar " means hill. The Deo pahar was discovered by an British officer in the year 1920. On arriving in the Deo Pahar, one circular alter is visible in the middle of the small hillock and around the alter ,there are lots of broken pieces of a temple scattered all around the main alter. There is a large stone ceiling of which the outer side is plane and in the inner side there is a large curving of a lotus.The ceiling is broken and is hanging on the rock. The Archaeological dept. of the Govt of Assam exacavated the earth around the main alter base and now beautiful stone curvings of human semismiling faces,elephants etc. are visible all around the alter at different circular rows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload