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The Devalaya is assumed to be erected by a king namely Nagakhya or Nagshankar being prompted by a legendary event of tracing out a stone statue by a BrahminRupnath Sarma. But the historical status of king Nagakhya is found difficult to be affinned on account of the non-availability of sound records. According to the Jogini Tantra, a Sudra king named Debesvar was ruling in Kamrupa by the beginning of Saka Year. Mention is also made of Nara Sankar or Nagakhya, who flourished towards the end of the fourth century at Pratapgarh in Bishnath, where the ruins of a fort attributed to him are still in existence, and of four kings, Mimang, Gajang, Sribang and Mrigang, who ruled for two hundred years at Lohityapur.(Gait: 2013: 17)

Nagakhya was a petty king during the period preceding the ascendancy of the Koches. It is known to us by history records that petty kings who ruled in different parts of Kamarupa were subjugated by Biswa Simha, the founder of the Koch kingdom. Koch king Naranarayana, who is to have rebuilt the temple of Kamakhya, might have patronized the Bilvesvara temple. (Barman: 2014: 117). Billeswar Devalaya, since that time, is keeping its pristine stature till date although of the various social and historical upheavals for centuries. Legends and myths related with the Devalaya are being transmitted generation to generation and its magnificence and significance are carried out with uprising prominence despite the paradigmatic changes in the society endorsed with education, scientific discoveries and inventions and information technology in full swing. In subsequent times, besides, Nagakhya or Nagshankar, King Naranarayana (1540 to 1587) Rudrasingha (16961714), Shivasingha (1714to1774), Lakhyisingha (1769-1780) etc. made royal contribution to the sustenance and repair of the Devalaya. It is a famous pilgrimage in Assam and eastern India for primarily for the devout Hindu people. But it is seen as a place for cultural assimilation of Hindu and Muslim people since the time immemorial. All those things are narrated basing on the facts and figures derived from all primary and secondary sources in the specified chapters in the thesis. In 1498, Hussain Shah, king of Goud State 99 aggressed Kamrup-Kamata State and annexed with his kingdom. But he chose his son-Prince Daniel to rule this new part of the territory. But feudal the kings of the original territory became extremely dissatisfied and started agitation. They collectively preferred Nagakhya-son of Malkumar to their leader to fight against Danial. Nagakhya killed Danial and started to rule the state. It is logically found that this Nagakhya established the Billeswar Devalaya.