Bura Bagh Raja, the 'old tiger king', is counted by Endle and later ethnographers among the prominent household deities of the Bodos, alongside Bathoubwrai, Mainao and Song Raja. As monarch of the woods he presides over tigers and the wild fauna of the jungle bordering Bodo villages, and is propitiated so that the tiger may spare people and cattle. His cult belongs to a broad family of tiger-god veneration across the peoples of the Brahmaputra valley and central India, but among the Bodos he is an individuated, regularly named recipient of household worship.