Tirtha Atlas

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

3031 sites15 countries4 traditions30 centuries
Patronage

Who paid for these temples

A temple is a ledger in stone. 119 patrons — kings and queens, ministers and generals, merchants, abbots, widows and modern trusts — are named across the atlas as having built, rebuilt or gilded a sacred site.

This index is read from the free-text patron field, which 106 of the 3031 records carry. It is therefore partial — a site with no patron listed is not a site without a patron, only one whose funder the atlas has not yet sourced. Where a record clearly names more than one benefactor the entry is split; spellings that differ only by title or by a note of what was paid for are treated as one person, and every spelling used is reproduced on that patron's own page. No patron's own dates, house or biography is asserted anywhere here: the corpus holds no sourced field for them, so the centuries shown are those of the buildings, not of the people.

119 of 119 patrons

Named on more than one site13

Krishnadevaraya
4 sites · Andhra Pradesh · Karnataka · Tamil Nadu
India
structures 9th–16th c.
Ahilyabai Holkar
3 sites · Bihar · Maharashtra · Uttar Pradesh
India
structures 18th c.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh
3 sites · Bihar · Punjab · Uttar Pradesh
India
structures 16th–20th c.
Ashoka
2 sites · Madhya Pradesh · Punjab (India, Pakistan)
IndiaPakistan
structures 3rd c. BCE – 2nd c. CE
Cholas
2 sites · Andhra Pradesh · Tamil Nadu
India
structures 9th–16th c.
Dang Hyang Nirartha
2 sites · Bali
Indonesia
structures 10th–16th c.
Jayavarman VII
2 sites · Siem Reap
Cambodia
structures 12th–13th c.
K. Thamboosamy Pillai
2 sites · Kuala Lumpur · Selangor
Malaysia
structures 19th–21st c.
King Kyanzittha
2 sites · Mandalay Region
Myanmar
structures 11th–12th c.
Narasimhadeva I
2 sites · Andhra Pradesh · Odisha
India
structures 11th–13th c.
Narasimhavarman II
2 sites · Tamil Nadu
India
structures 7th–8th c.
Rama I
2 sites · Bangkok
Thailand
structures 18th–19th c.
Rama III
2 sites · Bangkok
Thailand
structures 18th–19th c.

Named on a single site106

106 further patrons appear once each. The count is a measure of this atlas's coverage, not of a patron's generosity.