2001 Gujarat Earthquake Shrine-Survival Accounts

Record summary

Following the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, local and religious publications circulated stories that certain temples, shrines, icons, or devotees had been protected despite extensive destruction. These narratives can be compared with secular accounts of construction quality, location, occupancy, and rescue timing. The event is securely documented, but the individual miracle reports are unevenly identifiable and may have been shaped by reconstruction campaigns. A researcher should locate a specific shrine, image, or named survivor in contemporaneous Gujarati, Hindi, or English reporting before coding it as a separate account.