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Swayambhu Shiva temple remains, Warangal
The temple’s monumental gateways survive among fragmented architectural remains.
Warangal Fort · Telangana
Archaeological remains
As documented: 2026-09-28Approximate locality
17.9558°, 79.6144° · not a surveyed footprintHow to read this history
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The recorded chronology
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1323 AD
The account links the central Shiva temple’s destruction to Ulugh Khan’s conquest of Warangal.
eventAttributed · further checking neededThe account links the central Shiva temple’s destruction to Ulugh Khan’s conquest of Warangal.
- Swayambhu Shiva temple remains, Warangal — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · History / damage account; see source context · Accessed 2026-09-28
dateAttributed · further checking needed1323
- Swayambhu Shiva temple remains, Warangal — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · History / damage account; see source context · Accessed 2026-09-28
actorAttributed · further checking neededUlugh Khan and Delhi Sultanate forces
- Swayambhu Shiva temple remains, Warangal — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · History / damage account; see source context · Accessed 2026-09-28
eventAttributed · further checking neededEaton attributes dismantling of the Swayambhusiva shrine and breaking its linga to Ulugh Khan’s conquest; the four ritual gateways survived. Reused temple material and surviving fabric are discussed separately.
- Richard M. Eaton, Muhammad bin Tughluq and Temples of the Deccan, 1321–26 ↗Metropolitan Museum of Art · Eaton 2011, pp. 183–184 · Accessed 2026-09-28
Location & last documented condition
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- Swayambhu Shiva temple remains, Warangal — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · History / damage account; see source context · Accessed 2026-09-28
The consulted account describes archaeological remains.
- Swayambhu Shiva temple remains, Warangal — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · History / damage account; see source context · Accessed 2026-09-28
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Discovery: Wikipedia reference trail or independent source search · Access: direct - Richard M. Eaton, Muhammad bin Tughluq and Temples of the Deccan, 1321–26 ↗ · Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sultans of the South (2011), printed pp. 180–187 visually read in the publisher PDF, including note 9 on the loose Bodhan inscriptions. Firecrawl rejected the 80 MB PDF; publisher download and rendered pages were used.
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