Temples of India, and their stories

What’s inside

• A map of all of India to district level, drawn on your phone and working without signal. A state’s full detail downloads when you want it.
• More than 400 temples, from the Char Dham and the twelve Jyotirlingas to the Divya Desams and the Shakti Peethas, each with its legend or its history.
• Story Mode tours that travel from temple to temple along a circuit, read aloud by your phone’s own voice.
• Your yatra: light a diya for each temple you visit, keep a journal with photos, and plan a trip stop by stop.
• A calendar of festivals by tithi and nakshatra, with reminders for the temples you save, and the 27 birth stars and their temples.
• Anatomy of a temple, the dynasties that built them through the centuries, and a search that knows a temple’s other names.

How the stories are told

The legends are told as tradition holds them, not as history. They vary between regions and texts, so each story lists the sources it comes from. A temple’s history comes from Wikipedia.

Festival dates and season openings are estimates from the panchang. Check with the temple before you travel.

What it doesn’t do

• No account or login.
• No ads, analytics or tracking.
• Nothing for sale: no pujas, offerings or bookings.
• Your visits, journal and photos stay on your phone. The privacy policy gives the details.

Who makes it

Sanathana Yatra is made by an individual developer in India, not by a company or an organisation. Write to praveen.dev.mys@gmail.com with a question, a correction or a temple you would like to see.

Sources and credits

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Natural Earth, with India’s borders as India’s official map shows them; elevation from Tilezen terrain tiles. History from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), temple facts from Wikidata (CC0), and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited under each photo. The deity portraits are drawn for the app. Settings › Credits and licences lists them all.