Editorial policy

About this website

srirangamtemple.net is an independent informational resource about Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam, written and maintained by Sai Kiran.

We accept no payment for coverage, publish no sponsored content and carry no advertising. We do not sell tickets, take bookings or collect donations.

How we research

We use, in order of preference:

• official government sources, especially the Tamil Nadu HR&CE Department's temple portal;
• other Government of Tamil Nadu and Government of India sources, including tourism sources;
• Archaeological Survey of India material where relevant;
• UNESCO documentation;
• published scholarly research and historical sources;
• traditional religious texts and temple tradition, clearly identified as such;
• on-site observations, only where they have genuinely been made and recorded.

The full source hierarchy, and every source cited on the site, is on the sources and methodology page. Each major page ends with the sources it relies on.

Historical information

We distinguish documented history from temple tradition, religious belief, oral tradition, legend and devotional accounts. Where it helps the reader, passages carry a label such as Historical record, Traditional account, Devotional tradition or Scholarly interpretation. Tradition is presented respectfully and is never dismissed, but it is not presented as established historical fact. Where traditional and scholarly dates differ, as with the life of Ramanuja, we give both.

Practical information

Timings, festival schedules, visitor procedures, fees and access arrangements can change, sometimes at short notice. We check them against the official HR&CE portal and show the date of that check. Readers should verify time-sensitive information through official sources before travelling. We do not publish fees we cannot verify.

First-hand experience

We do not invent experience. We will not describe visits, queue times, conversations or observations that did not happen. Practical advice that is not based on recorded first-hand observation is written as general guidance, and where a detail still needs to be confirmed on site, we say so.

Dates on our pages

Each page shows when it was published and, if different, when its content was last updated. A "last reviewed" date is shown only when the author has actually reviewed the page on that date. Rebuilding the website does not change any of these dates.

Corrections

If you identify an inaccurate, outdated or incorrectly attributed fact, please contact us with the relevant source. Verified corrections will be incorporated into the website, and the page's update date will change to reflect the correction.

AI-assisted content

AI-assisted tools may be used during research organization, drafting assistance, formatting and technical development. Published material is reviewed and edited by the site's human editor. AI output is not treated as an authoritative factual source, and factual claims are checked against appropriate primary, official or scholarly sources where available. Where a claim could not yet be checked against such a source, the page says so.

Images

We use freely licensed photographs from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each image and on the image credits page. We do not claim ownership of third-party photographs and do not publish photographs of the deities in the sanctum.

What we will not publish

No keyword-stuffed or near-duplicate pages, no pages generated from keyword lists, no fake reviews or ratings, no invented credentials, statistics or sources, and no copied official text presented as our own. Our internal content guidelines apply these rules to everything we add.