Tirtha Atlas

The sacred geography of the Indic world — every site mapped, dated, storied, and cited.

1126 sites15 countries4 traditions30 centuries
Chronology

Dynasties & patrons

Every standing structure in the atlas is attributed to the dynasty or era that raised it. Choose one to see its temples.

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2 sites
19th-century Peshawar
1 site
Adi Shankara (trad.)
1 site
Ahom
9 sites
Alchon Hun period
1 site
Alupa
1 site
Alupa era
1 site
Ancient (Kosala)
1 site
Anuradhapura
1 site
Anuradhapura (Devanampiya Tissa)
1 site
Anuradhapura Kingdom
3 sites
Anuradhapura; later Polonnaruwa and Kandy
1 site
Ayutthaya Kingdom
3 sites
Badami Chalukya
3 sites
Baj Basanta
1 site
Bali Kingdom
1 site
Bansberia Raj
1 site
Bardhaman Raj
1 site
Barkagarh (Ani Nath Shahdeo)
1 site
Bhanja
2 sites
Bhanja (Kanika)
1 site
Bhati Rajput
1 site
Bhauma-Kara
2 sites
Bhauma-Kara and earlier
1 site
Bhavnagar State
1 site
Bhutanese theocracy
1 site
Bikaner state
1 site
Bir Singh Deo; earlier structure associated with Narayan Bhatt and Raja Todar Mal
1 site
Built by the merchants Ahuka and Manyuka in the reign of Jaya Chandra; renovated under Sansar Chand
1 site
Bundela
2 sites
Bundela (renovation)
1 site
Bushahr
1 site
Chakri
1 site
Chakri (Rattanakosin)
3 sites
Chalukya
3 sites
Chalukya (Badami)
3 sites
Chalukya (Eastern)
1 site
Chalukya of Vemulawada
1 site
Champa
3 sites
Chand
1 site
Chand dynasty of Champawat (medieval)
1 site
Chandela
1 site
Chauhan
1 site
Chauhan (Patna)
1 site
Chauhan (Sambalpur)
1 site
Chaulukya
2 sites
Chaulukya (Solanki)
4 sites
Chaulukya (Solanki) origins
1 site
Chaulukya (Solanki) vassals
1 site
Chaulukya legacy
1 site
Chaulukya–Vaghela
1 site
Chembakassery
1 site
Chenla
1 site
Chera
8 sites
Chhapa (proposed)
1 site
Chilkigarh Raj
1 site
Chindaka Naga
1 site
Chola
114 sites
Chola (Kulothunga Chola I)
1 site
Chola and Pandya patronage
1 site
Chola grants
1 site
Chola-Nayak renovations
1 site
Chola, expanded under Vijayanagara
1 site
Chola, later Madurai Nayak and Travancore
1 site
Chola, then Nayak
1 site
Chola, with patronage from Sembiyan Mahadevi
1 site
Chola/Jaffna legacy
1 site
Chola/Pandya/Nayak (additions)
1 site
Chutia
1 site
Colonial-era Bengal
2 sites
Colonial-era merchant patronage
1 site
Colonial-era rebuilding
1 site
Deva dynasty
1 site
Deva of Samatata
1 site
Devaraya Wodeyar (local chieftain)
1 site
Dewal Pratihara, with the Chauhans of Jalore
1 site
Dinajpur Raj
1 site
Dogra
3 sites
Drikung Kagyu
1 site
Drukpa Kagyu
1 site
Drukpa lineage
1 site
Early Chola
6 sites
Early medieval Himalayan; columns attributed to King Lalitaditya
1 site
Eastern Chalukya
3 sites
Eastern Chalukya and Kakatiya
1 site
Eastern Ganga
7 sites
Eastern Ganga (also attributed to Somavamshi Yayati Keshari)
1 site
Eastern Ganga; rebuilt in the 18th c.
1 site
Founded by the poet-saint Tulsidas
1 site
Garhwal
1 site
Garhwal (Tehri)
1 site
Garhwal Kingdom (expansions)
1 site
Gelgel/Klungkung
1 site
Gelug
3 sites
Gelug (Tibetan Buddhist)
1 site
Gelug, era of the Fifth Dalai Lama
1 site
Gelug, originally Kadampa
1 site
Ghorpade of Sandur
1 site
Gidhaur era
1 site
Gorkha/Garhwal
1 site
Guge kingdom (Yeshe-O and Rinchen Zangpo)
1 site
Gupta
10 sites
Gupta period
1 site
Gurjara-Pratihara
5 sites
Gurjara-Pratihara era
1 site
Gwalior State (Scindia); built by Seth Gokul Das Parikh
1 site
Hariphunchai
1 site
Heggade (Pergade) family
1 site
Hephthalite–Western Turk era
1 site
Hindu Shahi
1 site
Holkar
2 sites
Holkar (Maratha)
1 site
Holkar / Peshwa
1 site
Hoysala
17 sites
Ikshvaku
1 site
Indo-Parthian/Kushan
1 site
Jadaun rulers of Karauli
1 site
Jadeja rulers of Kutch
2 sites
Jaffna (Aryacakravarti legacy)
1 site
Jagat Seth patronage
1 site
Jaintia
1 site
Jethwa
1 site
Kachchhapaghata
3 sites
Kachhwaha of Jaipur
1 site
Kachhwaha of Jaipur, under Madho Singh I
1 site
Kachhwaha rulers of Amber
1 site
Kachwaha
1 site
Kachwaha of Amer
1 site
Kadamba
5 sites
Kakatiya
4 sites
Kalachuri
1 site
Kalachuri (attributed)
1 site
Kalachuri of Ratanpur
1 site
Kalachuri of Tripuri
3 sites
Kalachuri, Gurjara-Pratihara era
1 site
Kalingga/early Mataram
1 site
Kandyan
1 site
Kandyan patronage; 20th-c. restoration
1 site
Karkota
1 site
Karkota/Utpala
1 site
Katoch
1 site
Katyuri
2 sites
Katyuri era
1 site
Kedah Tua (Old Kedah)
1 site
Kediri–Majapahit
1 site
Kempe Gowda
1 site
Kharavela
1 site
Khmer (Angkor)
8 sites
Khmer Empire
15 sites
Kingdom of Vientiane
1 site
Koch
3 sites
Koch of Cooch Behar; Raikats of Baikunthapur
1 site
Konbaung
1 site
Kongu Chola
1 site
Kota chiefs, with Reddi and Vijayanagara patronage
1 site
Kotte, Sitawaka and Kandyan patronage
1 site
Kullu kingdom
1 site
Kunduru Choda
1 site
Kushan
1 site
Kushano-Sasanian
1 site
Kutch State era
1 site
Ladakh kingdom
3 sites
Ladakh kingdom, Rinchen Zangpo era
1 site
Lalgola Raj
1 site
Lan Na
1 site
Lan Xang
2 sites
Lanna
1 site
Late Gupta; foundation traditionally attributed to Adi Shankara
1 site
Late Mughal era; rebuilding attributed to Hemu in earlier phases
1 site
Later Chalukya / Hoysala
1 site
Later Chera
1 site
Later Chola
1 site
Later Gupta and Pala
1 site
Later Le
1 site
Licchavi
3 sites
Licchavi; Mauryan (Ashoka)
1 site
Ly
1 site
Madurai Nayak
1 site
Magadha, Buddha's lifetime
1 site
Maitraka
1 site
Majapahit
2 sites
Majapahit-era Bali
1 site
Malla
6 sites
Mani Majra
1 site
Manikya
2 sites
Manikya (Tripura)
1 site
Manikya dynasty of Tripura (patron)
1 site
Manipur royal house
1 site
Maratha
7 sites
Maratha (Bhonsle)
1 site
Maratha (Holkar)
3 sites
Maratha (patronage)
1 site
Maratha (Peshwa)
2 sites
Maratha (Peshwa); site named by Pushpabhuti of the Vardhana line
1 site
Maratha (Scindia)
1 site
Maratha (Shinde)
1 site
Maratha era
1 site
Maratha, with Kadamba origins
1 site
Marudu Pandiyar patronage
1 site
Mataram (Medang)
1 site
Mataram (Sanjaya)
1 site
Maurya
7 sites
Maurya; later Gupta
1 site
Medieval Chola
2 sites
Melayu
1 site
Mengwi
1 site
Mewar (Guhila-Sisodia)
1 site
Mewar (Sisodia)
1 site
Mewar patronage; Pushtimarg sampradaya
1 site
Mindon Min (19th c.)
1 site
Modern
77 sites
Modern (B. M. Birla Foundation)
1 site
Modern (Chaulukya-style revival)
1 site
Modern (diaspora)
4 sites
Modern (founded by Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj)
1 site
Modern (ISKCON)
2 sites
Modern (Kapurthala state)
1 site
Modern (over Gupta-era remains)
1 site
Modern (Patiala patronage)
1 site
Modern (Rajasthani style)
1 site
Modern (Sureka family of Howrah)
1 site
Modern (Tikamgarh patronage)
1 site
Modern rebuild; earlier Pallava, Pandyan and Chola patronage
1 site
Modern rebuilding
2 sites
Modern reconstruction; earlier shrine ascribed in legend to the Pandavas
1 site
Modern restoration on an ancient site
1 site
Mon
1 site
Mon (Hanthawaddy)
1 site
Mon (Shin Sawbu)
1 site
Monpa (under Gelug patronage)
1 site
Mpu Kuturan
1 site
Mrauk U Kingdom
1 site
Mughal era
1 site
Mughal era (reign of Akbar)
1 site
Mughal-era foundation
1 site
Mushika (Kolathiri)
1 site
Mustang
1 site
Nagarathar patronage (colonial era)
1 site
Nagavanshi (Phaninagavanshi)
1 site
Nala
1 site
Namgyal
2 sites
Namgyal (Chogyal)
5 sites
Namgyal (Ladakh)
1 site
Nandagiri rulers
1 site
Nayak
11 sites
Nayaka (Bomappa Nayaka)
1 site
Nguyen Lords
1 site
Nolamba
1 site
Nyingma
1 site
Oswal merchant patronage
1 site
Pagan
6 sites
Pala
4 sites
Pala (Kamarupa)
1 site
Pala (Mauryan origin)
1 site
Palakkad royal house
1 site
Pallava
20 sites
Pallava-Vijayanagara (rebuilds)
1 site
Pallava, Chola
1 site
Pallava, Chola, Nayak
1 site
Pallava, then Chola under Rajendra Chola I
1 site
Pandalam
1 site
Pandya
18 sites
Pandya patronage
1 site
Paramara
2 sites
Paramara legacy
1 site
Pashupata patronage; Katyuri/Chand era (attributed)
1 site
Patna State (Baijal Singh Dev)
1 site
Pema Lingpa lineage
1 site
Peshwa (Maratha)
5 sites
Polonnaruwa
1 site
Post-Angkorian Khmer
1 site
Pratapaditya of Jessore
1 site
Pratihara feudatory
1 site
Purushottama Deva era
1 site
Puthia Raj zamindars
1 site
Qutb Shahi era
1 site
Raja Bir Chand
1 site
Rajput
1 site
Ramanandi sampradaya under Amber and Jaipur patronage
1 site
Rana
1 site
Rani Bhabani of Natore
1 site
Rashtrakuta
1 site
Rashtrakuta and Western Chalukya
1 site
Rashtrakuta to Vijayanagara
1 site
Rathore (Bikaner)
1 site
Ratta
1 site
Rattanakosin
2 sites
Reddi
1 site
Reign of Maharaja Udayasena
1 site
Restored Toungoo
1 site
Rinchen Zangpo era; later Gelug under Likir
1 site
Ruhuna
1 site
Sailendra
5 sites
Sailendra / Medang Mataram
1 site
Saluva
1 site
Santara
1 site
Satavahana
2 sites
Satavahana (cave excavation)
1 site
Satavahana / Western Kshatrapa
1 site
Satavahana & Vakataka
1 site
Satavahana and later
1 site
Satavahana era
1 site
Satavahana, with earlier Sada and post-Mauryan phases
1 site
Sena
1 site
Shah (Gorkha kingdom)
1 site
Shailodbhava
1 site
Sharabhapuriya (attributed)
1 site
Shilahara
3 sites
Shunga
1 site
Sikh
2 sites
Sikh Empire
5 sites
Sikh Guru period
1 site
Sikh Gurus
4 sites
Sikh Misls / Modern
2 sites
Silahara in the later phase
1 site
Silhara (original); rebuilt by Rama Kamat
1 site
Sindhu Raja
1 site
Singhasari
2 sites
Sisodia (Mewar)
1 site
Somavamshi
5 sites
Srivijaya
1 site
Suchat Singh of Kashmir; image attributed to Adi Shankara
1 site
Swaminarayan Sampradaya (Vadtal Gadi)
1 site
Tamluk Raj
1 site
Thanjavur Nayak
4 sites
Thekkumkur
1 site
Thibaw Min (19th c.)
1 site
Tibetan Empire
2 sites
Travancore
2 sites
Udasi (Bankhandi lineage)
1 site
Udayana (Warmadewa)
1 site
Umayamma Rani (Venad)
1 site
Undetermined
302 sites
Undetermined; later patronised by the Sisodia Maharanas of Udaipur
1 site
Utpala
1 site
Utpala era
1 site
Valluvanad
1 site
Varman dynasty of Chamba (post-Gupta)
1 site
Vatsa / Maurya
1 site
Verman of Chamba
1 site
Vijayanagar
1 site
Vijayanagara
26 sites
Vijayanagara (Saluva/Tuluva)
1 site
Vijayanagara Nayak
1 site
Vijayaraya Chakravarti II
1 site
Vikramaditya (traditional); later British-era and modern expansion
1 site
Vishnukundina
1 site
Wangchuck
1 site
Warmadewa
1 site
Warmadewa era; Majapahit-era additions
1 site
Western (Kalyani) Chalukya
1 site
Western Chalukya
6 sites
Western Ganga
2 sites
Western Ganga, with Hoysala and Vijayanagara additions
1 site
Western Satrap and Satavahana patronage
1 site
Yadava
2 sites
Zamorin
1 site
Zamorin era
1 site
Zhabdrung era
1 site