About Mulbagal

Mulbagal is a town and Taluk headquarters of Mulbagal Taluk in the Kolar district in the state of Karnataka , India. It lies just off the National Highway 4.

Mulubagilu or Mulbagal was earlier called as Mudala Bagilu. It is the gateway of Karnataka.`MOODALABAAGILU' meaning eastern entrance for the state of Mysore (and may be Vijayanagara kingdom) has been transformed into Mulbagal.

The well-known place here is the temple for Hanuman, said to be installed by Arjuna, one of the Pandavas, after the Mahabharata war. Sage Vasishta is believed to have installed the idols of the main deity Srinivasa, Padmavathi and Rama-Sita-Lakshmana.

Apart from famous Hanuman temple, this town has `Someswara' temple dedicated to Lord Shiva. The Shiva linga here is similar to that at sacred Kasi or Varanasi, a very old temple.

Another temple dedicated to Vishnu is the `Vittaleswara temple and the idol is similar to Panduranga Vittala at Pandarapur in Maharashtra state.This is also very old temple and has a large gopurs and vast kalyani. In this place an historic anjaneya temple and shiva temple.

Mulbagal housing temples to Someshwara dating back to the Vijayanagar period. Virupakshapura near Mulbagal bears the Virupaksha temple again in the Vijayanagar style.

Avani near Mulbagal is known as the Gaya of the south and it bears a cluster of temples known as the Rameshwara, Lakshmaneshwara, Bharateshwara and Shatrugneshwara, dating back to the period of the Nolamba dynasty.

About 16 kms from here, is a place called BYRASANDRA which is in between TAYALUR & VKOTA. This place has a very famous temples like SHIVA on top of the hill, Venugopala swami temple in the heart of BYRASANDRA.

And also there is a vyasaraya mutt, it is proud to know that there was an university for which Vyasaraya theertha was himself the chanceller.

Mulbagal is the birth place of famous literature D.V.Gundappa

Mulbagal is located near Kolar about 30 kms Mulbagal

geographical location : Kolar, Karnataka, India, Asia

geographical coordinates : 13° 10' 0" North, 78° 24' 0" East

Taluk Name : Mulbagal

Area : 82,382 hectares

Population : 2,02,893 (1991)

Population : 2.04 (Rural)

Density : 2.46 (Urban+Rural)

Livestock : 0.83 density

Forest cover : <10%>