Tirtha Atlas

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

1126 sites15 countries4 traditions30 centuries
Patron

Dharmapala

1 site in the atlas names Dharmapala as patron.

Rajshahi (Naogaon)Bangladesh
Sites here
1
record naming this patron
Geographic span
Rajshahi (Naogaon)
from the site records
Structures span
8th–9th c.
the buildings' dates, not the patron's

These centuries are the minimum and maximum of the built ranges of the sites below — several of which have older cores this patron did not raise. The atlas states no dates for the patron: it carries no sourced field for them.

Sites

Somapura Mahavihara, Paharpur
Paharpur, Rajshahi (Naogaon) · Bangladesh
late 8th c.

Sources

2 citations across 1 site record. The attribution above is only as good as these.

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derived from the patron field of 1 record · no patron biography is stored or inferred · sources retrieved 2026-08-26