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Attribution

The site is built from published epigraphy, archaeological survey records and gazetteers. Most of the underlying literature is old enough to be out of copyright, but that is not the same as being free to reuse, and the two are routinely confused. This page states what may be used and on what terms.

What this site’s own text is

The prose, site descriptions and structured data on this site were written for it, from the sources listed on the Sources page. Short quotations from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century surveys are used as historical documents. Each quotation is credited on the page where it appears.

The 1900 Archaeological Survey inventory is in the public domain, and its wording is reproduced closely because paraphrasing a survey catalogue would lose the specificity that makes it useful.

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Images

Every photograph and plan on this site will be credited to its holding institution. Where a licence permits reuse with attribution, that is sufficient. Where an image cannot be reused freely, it is either not included or included with the rights holder’s permission.

  • The British Library

    Deen Dayal photographs of Warangal, including the Thousand Pillar Temple

    No known copyright restrictions. The Board of Trustees’ terms apply.

  • American Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon

    Thousand Pillar Temple documentation, January–February 1982, by Sankada Prasad

    AIIS and UCLA Digital Collections. Licensed for scholarly use with attribution.

  • Archaeological Survey of India

    Survey photographs and site plans

    Government of India. Reproduce with attribution where marked.

  • Wikimedia Commons contributors

    Contemporary photographs of Ramappa Temple, Thousand Pillar Temple and Warangal Fort

    Each file has its own licence. Check each file and credit the named author.

  • Kakatiya Heritage Trust

    Ramappa Temple imagery, taken by Surendra Kumar

    Permission is required. The Wagoner guide is in copyright.

Photographs of Indian temples by living or recently deceased photographers may carry rights independent of the antiquity of the monument. Age of the subject does not place the photograph in the public domain.

Image credits

Every photograph on this site, with its author, source and licence. Each links to the original file and to the licence terms. Images under a Creative Commons licence may be reused under the same terms with the same credit.

Corrections

Transliteration of site and ruler names varies substantially between sources, and regnal dates are given as ranges where they are contested. Both are deliberate rather than oversights. Where this site is wrong, that should be corrected rather than defended.

Translations

Translated text on this site is machine-generated (IndicTrans2) and has not yet been reviewed by a historian who reads the language and knows the epigraphic literature. Treat it as a reading aid: the English text is authoritative. Inscription abstracts and bibliographic references are kept in English, as they were published.