तीर्थ

Sacred places

Living-tradition sites associated with the Rāmāyaṇa.

• Hazāra Rāma Temple

  A temple in Vijayanagara's Royal Centre, usually dated to the early fifteenth century and understood as a royal temple, with Rāmāyaṇa reliefs along its walls.

• Rāmanāthasvāmi Temple

  Counted by tradition among the twelve jyotirliṅgas, and associated by tradition with Rāma's worship of Śiva.

• Daśāvatāra Temple

  A small Viṣṇu temple usually dated to about 500 CE or the early sixth century; its terrace once carried Rāmāyaṇa panels.

• Ramtek (Rāmagiri) Hill Temples

  Temples on Rāmagiri, "Rāma's hill", a name found in fifth-century inscriptions. The earliest inscription naming Rāma's worship, in Bakker's survey, is from about 1240.

• Ram Raja Temple

  A temple in a building listed among Orchha's palaces, where Rāma is worshipped as king, saluted by a daily guard of honour.

• Virūpākṣa and Pāpanātha

  Two Early Chāḷukya temples on the Malaprabhā carry Rāmāyaṇa scenes in stone; at Pāpanātha many figures are labelled by name.

• Sita Ramachandra Swamy Temple

  A Rāma temple on the Godāvarī, remembered through the songs attributed to Kancherla Gopanna, called Rāmadāsu.

• Jānakī Mandir

  The temple of Jānakī, Sītā, in Janakpur, where from about 1700 ascetics gave the epic's Mithilā a place on the map.