Mahant Swami Maharaj — Global Vicharan

BAPS SWAMINARAYAN SANSTHA  ·  2016–2026  ·  INTERACTIVE TRAVEL ARCHIVE

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Interactive world map showing every place Mahant Swami Maharaj has stayed. Each circle represents a location — size and colour reflect the total days spent there across all visits. A visit is one continuous stay at a place; MSM may visit the same place many times across different years. Click any circle to see a year/month breakdown of days spent. Click a country card below to see all places and days spent in that country. Use the Hide buttons above to remove countries from view — click again to restore. Show All restores all countries. Use the top filter bar to restrict to a date range.
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🌱 Patterns: First Visits & Revisits

🆕 First-ever visits in current filter

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🔄 Most-visited places — by visit count

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📜 Event Tracker
Aggregated from extracted articles. Click a row to open the article (the event name is highlighted on that page).
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🟩 Calendar Heatmap — Daily Activity
Each cell = one day. Colour intensity = number of journeys that day. Click a cell to drill in. Respects the active year/country/place filter.
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Less More journeys Tip: click any cell to see that day's records, events & article links.
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👥 Most-mentioned persons
Aggregated from named_persons across all extracted articles. Click a name to see all dates they appear in.
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Timeline Analysis
Journeys per Year counts the number of times MSM physically moved from one place to another — each movement = one journey. Countries per Year shows how many distinct countries were visited that year. Click any bar in the Journeys chart to expand a month-by-month breakdown showing places visited, days spent, and article links for that year.
Journeys per Year (click bar to expand)
Countries per Year
Countries Visited
Days here means the total number of calendar days MSM has spent in each country across the entire period — counting every day of every visit. A visit is one continuous stay; MSM may make many separate visits to the same country over the years. Click any bar or table row to see a month-by-month and place-by-place breakdown of days spent. 🔵 Archive links navigate to the BAPS Vicharan archive for that country's first recorded year.
Days Spent by Country (click bar to expand)
Summary · 🔵 Link → BAPS vicharan archive for first year visited
Mode of Travel
Travel modes are recorded only on days when MSM physically moved from one place to another (journey days). The count shown is the number of such journeys — not total visit entries. Click a pie slice to filter the journey list below. Click a year bar to see all journeys made that year. The All Journeys table lists every movement with From → To location, mode, distance, and an article link for that day.
By Mode (click slice to drill)
Mode by Year (click bar to drill)
Journeys by Year shows the number of physical movements made by each travel mode. Note: only movement entries are counted here — not stationary visits.
Journey List
View the full chronological journey sequence with dates, places, Samvat info, and article links.
Hindu Calendar Analysis
Vikram Samvat is a lunisolar Hindu calendar ~56–57 years ahead of Gregorian. Each month has two fortnights of 15 lunar days (Tithis) each — Sud (bright/waxing) and Vad (dark/waning). Charts show the number of days MSM spent in each Samvat month or on each Tithi. Click the Sud/Vad wheel to filter the Tithi chart — click again to deselect. Click any bar for a list of all days on that Tithi or month.
Days by Samvat Month (click bar)
Sud vs Vad — click to filter Tithi chart below
Tithi Distribution — all (click bar for date list)
📊 Events by Tithi (stacked by type · click any segment · full dataset, ignores year/country/place filter)
📊 Events by Hindu Month (stacked by type · click any segment · full dataset, ignores year/country/place filter)
Movement Patterns
Journeys by Day of Week counts physical movements (car/plane/helicopter) — click a bar to see all journeys on that weekday. Days by Month of Year aggregates total days spent across all years by calendar month — showing which months MSM is typically most settled. The two heatmaps both cover year × month, but measure different quantities: the Days Spent heatmap (orange) counts location entries, the Journey Starts heatmap (teal) counts movements. Same cell dark on both = intense travel; dark on days but light on journeys = extended settled stay; dark on journeys but not on days = short, frequent visits. Both respect the global filter. Click any cell for a detail list.
Journeys by Day of Week (click bar)
Journeys by Month of Year
Year × Month — Days Spent (click any cell)
Year × Month — Journey Starts (click any cell)
⏱ Time Intelligence All analyses respect the Global Filter

📅 Travel by Decade

Totals shows raw counts — note the decades cover unequal spans of data (e.g. the 2010s bar reflects 2016–2019 only, while the 2020s reflects 2020–2026). Per-Year Avg divides each value by the number of years actually observed in that decade, giving a fair comparison. Labels show the observed year range and year count.

🏠 Longest Consecutive Stays at One Place

The longest unbroken runs of days at a single location — reflecting extended residences at key ashrams.

🔁 Most Revisited Places (distinct calendar years)

🌍 Global Expansion — Countries per Year

How many distinct countries PSM visited each year. Shows the gradual internationalisation of his vicharan.

✈ Days Outside India per Year (click bar)

📍 Unique Places per Year (click bar)

📊 Rolling 3-Month Journey Frequency

Total journeys across a sliding 3-month window ending on that month. Smooths single-month spikes to reveal sustained travel patterns — peak vicharan seasons, and extended stays.

⚡ Journey Velocity — Km per Journey by Year

Average distance (km) per journey each year. Low = short local hops; High = long international flights. Shows the shift from Gujarat-centric travel to global vicharan.

🌙 Journeys by Tithi (Lunar Day)

Distribution of journey days across the 30 Tithis of the Vikram Samvat lunar calendar. Reveals whether travel has any correlation with the lunar cycle.

☀ Journeys by Samvat Month

🕸 Top Place-to-Place Routes (click a row)

Most frequent direct journey routes — pairs of places connected by the most movement days. Click any row to see the list of individual journey dates that make up the count.

🌟 Most Central Places (Hubs) — PageRank on the place-transition graph

Places that act as transit hubs in the journey graph — high PageRank means well-connected to other well-connected places. Useful for spotting logistical waypoints (e.g. Mumbai or Sarangpur as multi-direction transit points). Computed from the records inside the current filter.

😴 Distribution of Rest Periods Between Journeys

How many days elapsed between each pair of consecutive journeys. Most gaps are 1 day — showing the relentless pace of vicharan.

💡 Interpretation

📅 Days & Journeys by Year (YoY)

Days Spent = location entries, Journeys×10 = movements scaled, Distance÷100km = travel scaled. Scaling lets all three series fit on one y-axis — hover a bar for the true unscaled value. Note: bar heights use pre-built all-time data and ignore the global filter; clicking a bar drills into the filtered journey list, so the two counts may differ.

📊 Event Cadence

Patterns across the full event dataset (independent of the global filter): peak years, averages, year-over-year trend, and day-of-week distribution per event type. Click any chart point or summary card to drill into the Event Tracker.
Day-of-Week distribution by event type
Date & Place Explorer
Filter visit entries by any combination of Gregorian date range, Samvat calendar fields, country, or travel mode. Gregorian fields filter by calendar date (year, month, day). Samvat fields filter by Hindu lunar calendar values. Leave any field as "All" to include everything. Press Search to apply filters and see a count summary, a year-distribution chart, and the full list of matching entries with article links.
📅 GREGORIAN
🕉 SAMVAT
All Places Visited
Complete list of all locations where Mahant Swami Maharaj has stayed, sorted by total days spent. Days = the total number of calendar days across all separate visits to that place over the years. MSM often returns to the same place multiple times — each stay is a separate visit, and all days from all visits are added together. Click any place name or the ▶ button to see a year-by-year and month-by-month breakdown of days spent, with article links. Search by place name, state, or country. Filter by country and adjust items per page.
Journey Route — Date Sequence
Chronological list of all visit entries. Each row shows the date, day of week, place, state, country, Samvat date, travel mode (if a journey day), and an 🟢 article link for that day. Filter by year or country using the dropdowns. Enable "Journeys only" to show only entries where MSM moved to a new location. Click the numbered page buttons to navigate. The 🟢 green dot opens the BAPS article for that specific date; 🔵 blue opens the monthly archive.
🛤 Distance Map — Plot Period, Calculate Distance & Play Through Route
Select a date range and year to plot the route on the map. The map draws connecting lines between consecutive locations in chronological order. Total km is the sum of straight-line distances between each successive location. Press ▶ Play to animate the route step by step, showing each place as it was visited. Use the fullscreen button for a larger view. The list below the map shows every entry in the selected period.
plain journey events at destination
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📊 Events Analytics — across all dates
Aggregated from extracted articles. Click any KPI, heatmap cell, table row, or chip to drill into the Event Tracker filtered to that slice.
Year × Month-of-Year — event density
Each cell = total events that month. Click → Event Tracker filtered to that month.
Top 25 venues by total events
Persons by event involvement (click any row to see their details below)
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Type any natural-language question about Mahant Swami Maharaj (MSM) 's vicharan. The model has access to computing coverage…. It can answer questions about countries, places, dates, festivals, rituals, dignitaries — anything in the structured data plus the extracted articles. Sample questions: "How many countries has been visited?", "List every murti-pratishtha in 2024", "When did Harvard's Francis Clooney visit?"
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📄 Filter Report
Summary of the current filter. To change what's reported:
  1. Use the filter bar at the top of this page (Year, Country, etc.) — then click Apply for it to take effect.
  2. Or jump to another tab (World Map, Time Intelligence, etc.) and use a brush there — drag a year range, click 🎯 on a country chip, etc.
  3. Then come back to this tab — the report re-renders within ~½ second.
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📥 Pending Review — verify before ingest
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