Sivasagar (Asm)

Asm: শিৱসাগৰ śivasāgara ‘Shiva’s Ocean’  [Sibsagar] City/District,  Assam From Shiva; and Skt: sāgar, ‘ocean, ‘sea’. The city gets its name from the big lake in the city centre. Sivasagar’s previous name was Rangpur (see above) and it was the Ahom capital during the...