 For example, the twelve "Jyotirlingas" of Shaivism and fifty-one "Shaktipithas" of Shaktism are described in the early medieval era Puranas as pilgrimage sites around a theme.This sacred geography and Shaiva temples with same iconography, shared themes, motifs and embedded legends are found across India, from the Himalayas to hills of South India, from Ellora Caves to Varanasi by about the middle of 1st millennium.Shakti temples, dated to a few centuries later, are verifiable across the subcontinent.