States
Why the states are grouped this way
The states are grouped by zone because ritual practice groups that way rather than administratively. What a household keeps — which manuals its pandit reads from, which days of a wedding carry which rite, what is offered at a shraddh — follows region far more closely than it follows a state boundary, and several of the regions that matter most here cross one.
Where a state has cities we serve, its hub routes to them. Where it does not, the state still has a temple directory, because a temple exists whether or not a pandit in that state has yet opted in to a public profile, and a directory that hid the temples until the supply arrived would be a directory of our operations rather than of the country.
“Temples documented” on a state's page means a written guide — the darshan window, the nearest station, the locality — for a temple somebody has actually checked. Temples known but not yet written up are listed by name and do not link, which is why a state's count and its list of links are different numbers. A directory that quietly dropped the unwritten ones would report our progress as the country's temple map.
