Temples

Places to see

* Someshwara Temple: Apart from the famous Hanuman temple, this town has Someswara' temple dedicated to Lord Shiva. The Shiva linga here is similar to that at sacred Kashi or Varanasi.



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A one day tour the temples of Kolar, Venkateshwara temple at Chikka Tirupati, Bangaru temple, 1000 Shivalingas at Kotilingeshwara, Hanuman temple at Mulabagal and Amaranarayana temple at Kaiwara

* Baba Hyder Vali Dargah: Mulbagal is also famous for the dargah of Sufi Saint Hazrath Baba Hyder Vali. It is a 700 + years old dargah. Both Muslims and Hindus visit at the darga to get spiritual blessings of the saint. Urs, which is an annual festivity is celebrated for three consecutive days which is very popular even to date.

[edit] Temples in and near Mulabagilu

* Kshetra Palaka Sri Anjaneya Temple at Mulbagilu Bus stand, being tired after war Arjuna went on pilgrimage and bought his flag used during war consisting of Vayu Putra image and established in Mulabagal then called shathaka vatipuri.


Temple has been renovated recently by Hiranya gowda from USA native of Chamareddy palli a village near mulbagal.

* Someshwara Temple: Apart from the famous Hanuman temple, this town has Someswara' temple dedicated to Lord Shiva. The Shiva linga here is similar to that at sacred Kashi or Varanasi.

Legend says childless can pray for child by making pradhakshinas

* Virupakshi Sri Virupaksheshwara Swamy Temple is also located in Virupakshi Village about 4 kilometres from Mulbagal. This temple was built in the 1200s by Vijayanagara Rulers and resembles the Virupaksheshwara Temple in Hampi. The pooja performances at this temple has been done by Agastya Gothra's Sri V.A. Subramanya Deekshit and Sons. This is the only family that has been doing the pooja here since the temple was constructed and dates back to about 8 generations.

* Lord Subramanyeswara temple at foot hills of Anjandri hill.

* 15 km from Mulbagal Avani Rama pratistita Ramalingeshwara temple and beautiful hill where sita stayed.

Avani Sree Sharada Sringeri Temple a temple built by Adishankara and rebuilt last decade.

* Vittaleshwara 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 gopuras (towers) and vast kalyani (pond).

* Sripadaraja Math: The town was the residing place of Sreepadaraja Swamiji or simply Sripadaraya, a direct disciple of Saint Madhwacharya, who is known as third avatar of Vayu. The earlier two being Anjaneya or Hanuman, second being Bheema; the second Pandava. Madhwacharya established the Dwaita school of philosophy. Sreepadaraaja Swamiji who was the raajaguru (most important advisor) of the Vijayanagara kings, was known to have used kannada keerthanas (hymns) during pooja which was considered holy during those times. Sreepaadaraja Swaamiji was also known to was offering sixty four types of dishes naivedya (offering) to God everyday without fail. He has penned many keerthanas praising God and are still popular even after 600 years.

* Narasimha Teertha: The Narasimha teertha is about 2 km from the town of Mulbagal. It is the sacred place where Swaamiji lived and had his brindavan (sacred resting place for Hindu sages) made, is now the headquarters of the Sreepaadaraaja Mutt founded by him. There is also a Swayamvyakta Yoga Narasimha temple near the brindavan.

* Baba Hyder Vali Dargah: Mulbagal is also sacred for Muslims as the dargah of Sufi Saint Baba Hyder Vali of Mulbagal is situated here here. Both Muslims and Hindus worship at the darga and Urus festival is very popular here even to date.

* Kurudamale Maha Ganapathi Temple: Situated at 8 km from Mulbagal. This place is famous for Lord Ganapathi Temple.the Idol of the lord ganapathi is made of single " Saligrama rock " and the height is about 21 Ft from the ground level , & This Idol as well as temple is told to be 5000 yrs old.

* Sreenivasa Temple in Jyothi Nagara Pet was built by Sri RangaDasulu

[edit] Demographics

As of 2001[update] India census[2], Mulbagal had a population of 44,031. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Mulbagal has an average literacy rate of 61%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 67%, and female literacy is 54%. In Mulbagal, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age. There is VinugopalaSwamy Temple at Gujjanahalli near mulabagal about 16 Km . The temple has compose of ancient cholas architecture and founded by Late NangeGowda.
This is the famous temple in the Mulbagal Town.

Banks in Mulbagal

Pragathi Gramina Bank makes Mulbagal taluk money-lender free
his village in Mulbagal taluk, a stone's throw away from Andhra Pradesh, was once mired in debt, thanks to exorbitant
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interest charged by money lenders. Today, it's money-lender free, thanks to the sincere efforts of Mandikal branch of Pragathi Gramina Bank.

Former finance minister P Chidambaram had dreamt of making villages across the country money-lender free. The Pragathi Gramina Bank, in tune with his wishes, has already taken up steps in this direction. Tavarekere is the second village to be declared free of money lenders.

The villagers, mostly labourers with one third belonging to scheduled castes, were getting financial assistance from private money lenders in Andhra Pradesh. At least three financial firms, which claimed to have been registered under RBI, would lend money and charge exorbitant interest. The recovery agents of Ammamma Bank, Future Financial Services
and SKS Financiers, who claim to have registered offices in Chittor and other places, would visit the villages on a weekly basis to recover loan instalments. On an average, they'd recover over a lakh of rupees every fortnight.

T Papanna, manager, Mandikal branch, who visited the village was horrified to note the exorbitant rate of interest charged by them. To free the villagers from their clutches, he advised them to borrow from Gramina Bank. A majority of villagers were on the black list of various banks. Papanna persuaded them to repay outstanding loans with concessions for one-time settlement. Later, he began financing villagers depending upon their needs. With better prospects for dairy activity there, the bank funded the purchase of 56 cross-breed cows, besides providing financial assistance for other activities including business, piggery, poultry and other activities.

Shobha, a member of a women's self-help group, said that she is happy to deal with the bank as the interest rate is affordable, and bankers don't harass them for recovery unlike private money lenders. Narayanamma, who had no source of income a couple of years ago, is now a proud owner of six cross-breed cows and three calves. The local Milk Producers Cooperative Society has joined hands with the bank authorities for recovering loans. Result: the branch's overall recovery position is a stunning 98%.

Papanna added that most belonging to scheduled castes have become self reliant by obtaining financial assistance from his bank.
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Colleges

Education

* Smt. Danamma Channabasavaiah Mahila Samaja PU college (SDC), Mulbagal
* " ** Sri Sharada Vidya Peeta Started by Sree Shapur Narayana Swamy and his brother Shapur Krishnayya Shetty, initially it was an Hostel for Boys from Villages,later primary girls school was started by S.N Rajagopal S/o Shapur Narayana Swamy Shetty & NS Subbana high school teacher notedly Justice Venkatachalaiah stayed during his school days, later on became SN Sharada High School and to Sharada Vidya Peeta" group of Institutions and has presented many Doctors and Engineers to society

* "SRI AMARA JYOTHI INSTITUTIONS" a visionary institution with social service as moto and a famous upcoming school.....
* D.V.Gundappa Primary School
* C E A School, Bazar street
* Lourdu higher primary School
* St Anne's High School
* KJTET Polytechnic which caters for the technical education and also there is a primary school
* Sri MANJUNATHA VIDYA SAMASTHE Byrakur, Mulbagal Taluk

SRI MANJUNATHA NURSERY SCHOOL (Affiliated to Government of Karnataka)
SRI MANJUNATHA HIGHER PRIMARY SCHOOL (Aided to Govt of Karnataka)
BYRAKUR, MULBAGAL (TALUK), KOLAR (DISTRICT),
KARNATAKA (STATE), INDIA-563131
Phone: +91-8159-231677, Mobile: +91-9448962464
There are so many colleges in Mulbagal. The Colleges details are as shone below:

1. Govt First Grade College, Mulbagal

Mulbagal First Grade College,

Mulbagal,

Telephone : 08159-42014

2. Saradha College

work in progress...

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%>