Tirtha Atlas

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

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Patron

Vakataka court of Harishena

1 site in the atlas names Vakataka court of Harishena as patron.

MaharashtraIndia
Sites here
1
record naming this patron
Geographic span
Maharashtra
from the site records
Structures span
1st c. BCE – 5th c. CE
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

Ajanta Caves
Ajanta, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra · India
two phases: 2nd c. BCE & 5th c. CE

As the records write it

The patron field is free text, so the same person is written several ways. These are the exact forms behind this page — nothing here is a normalisation you cannot check.

Sources

3 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