Huvina Hadagali is a panchayat town in Bellary district in the India

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 of Karnataka

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Historical Names of Huvina Hadagali

• Puvina-Posavadangile

An inscription found on a slab set up at the western entrance into the Keshava

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swami temple at Huvina Hadagali, records that "Rebbaladevi, wife of the brave Brahman

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 general Ravideva or Raviga caused the construction fo the temple of Kesavadeva in Puvina-Posavadangile, which was her birthplace 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

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

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 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 Shastra

Shastra

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s, performing Aupasana

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 and Agnihotra

Agnihotra

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 and as ripukula-kadali-vana-kunjarar (as destructive to enemies as elephants to a forest of plantain-trees) and saranagata-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".

Demographics

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, Huvina Hadagali had a population of 23,404. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Huvina 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 Huvina Hadagali, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Major cultivation

Hadagali Mallige (Jasminum auriculatum

Jasminum auriculatum

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) is one of the top three cultivars of Jasmine

Jasmine

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 endemic to Karnataka

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, grown mainly in Huvina Hadagali and surrounding areas in Bellary district of Karnataka. The other two varieties being Mysooru Mallige (Jasminum grandiflorum

Jasminum grandiflorum

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) and Udupi Mallige (Jasminum sambac

Jasminum sambac

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). And Paddy is also become the 2nd major commercial crop.

Education in Huvinahadagali

• G.B.R COLLEGE (Arts,Commerce,Science).
• SKGG GOVT GIRLS COLLEGE.
• GOVT. ENGINEERING COLLEGE.
• J.S.S.INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION COLLEGE.
• S.R.M.P.P GOVT.First Grad College (B.B.M)
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• The Rastriya Computer Saksharatha Samithi
• THUNGA BHADRA HIGH SCHOOL
• SMT.RUDRAMMABA M.P. PRAKSH GOVT FIRST GRADE COLLEGE

Reaching Huvinahadagali

• By Railway And Bus
  • 70km away from Harihar,
  • 65km away from Gadag,
  • 75km away from Haveri,
  • 75km away from Hospet.

• Nearest Airport
  • 125km away from Hubli,
  • 365km away from Bangalore.