Tirtha Atlas

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

1126 sites15 countries4 traditions30 centuries
Patron

King Manadeva — the Nepal Tourism Board credits the Licchavi ruler with building the stupa, which it dates to about 460 CE.

1 site in the atlas names King Manadeva — the Nepal Tourism Board credits the Licchavi ruler with building the stupa, which it dates to about 460 CE. as patron.

BagmatiNepal
Sites here
1
record naming this patron
Geographic span
Bagmati
from the site records
Structures span
4th–7th 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

Swayambhunath Stupa
Kathmandu, Bagmati · Nepal
Licchavi-era attestations; renewed for 1,500 years

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