Hoovina Hadagali

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  ?Hoovina Hadagali
Karnataka • India
Coordinates: 15°01′01″N 75°57′00″E / 15.017, 75.95
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
Area 19.84 km² (8 sq mi)
District(s) Bellary
Population
Density
23,404 (2001)
• 1,179.64 /km² (3,055 /sq mi)
Codes
Pincode
Telephone

• 583 219
• +08399

Coordinates: 15°01′01″N 75°57′00″E / 15.017, 75.95 Hoovina Hadagali is a panchayat town in Bellary district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

[edit] Historical Names of Hoovina Hadagali

  • Puvina-Posavadangile[1]
An inscription found on a slab set up at the western entrace into the Keshavaswami temple at Hoovina Hadagali, records that "Rebbaladevi, wife of the brave Brahman general Ravideva or Raviga caused the construction fo the temple of Kesavadeva in Puvina-Posavadangile, which was her birth-place and having set up the god in the temple, made grants of many plots of land for the service of the god and for maintaining a feeding house for Brahmans, a flower garden and a house for the satra, in the presence of the Brahman Mahajanas of the place".
  • Puvina-Padangile[2]
An inscription found on a slab set in the front of the Anjaneya temple at Yenigi, Hadagali Taluk, records that "while the king (the Sevuna Yadava king Kandharadeva or Kannara(1247-1261)) was camping at the nelevidu of Devagiri, the 120 Brahman Mahajanas of Puvina-Padangile, who are described as very learned in the Vedas and the Shastras, performing Aupasana and Agnihotra and as ripukula-kadali-vana-kunjarar (destructive to enemies as elephants to the forest of plantain-trees) and sarangata-vajra-panjarar (mail-armour to those who seek shelter under them), made a gift of various plots of land of specified boundary, for the service of the god Kusmanatha at the village." Puvina-Padangile is stated to have been "situated in the Kogali-nadu, which was the eye of the Nolambavadi-nadu which again was, as it were, the nose of Kuntala-desa".

[edit] Demographics

As of 2001 India census[3], Hoovina Hadagali had a population of 23,404. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Hoovina Hadagali has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 67%, and female literacy is 53%. In Hoovina Hadagali, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.

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