Fig. 1: Location of eight renowned Shiva temples in the study area with their respective contributor dynasties, and the approximate time of construction.

While the blue dots represent the locations of all the other Shiva temples, the locations of the eight famous Shiva temples are differentiated by deep red temple shape marks within the three belts: SSARW (in light magenta), SSAR (in light green), and SSARE (in light yellow).