Tirtha Atlas

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

1126 sites15 countries4 traditions30 centuries
Patron

Somanatha Dandanayaka

1 site in the atlas names Somanatha Dandanayaka as patron.

KarnatakaIndia
Sites here
1
record naming this patron
Geographic span
Karnataka
from the site records
Structures span
13th 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

Keshava Temple, Somanathapura
Somanathapura, Karnataka · India
consecrated 1258

As the records write it

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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