Mulabagilu
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Mulabagilu (मुलबागल) is a town and administrative center of Mulabagilu taluk, in the Kolar District in the state of Karnataka, India. It is located on Ram Van Gaman Path.
Variants
- Mulbagal (मूलबगल/मुलबागल)
Location
The town is situated on the National Highway 75 and is the easternmost town of the state. Mulabagilu is on NH-4, a newly-laid four-lane road from Bengaluru to Mulbagal-Nangali Karnataka border Kolar district, with a total length of around 110 km. Approximately 354 km of major roads connect other locations to this area. Now mulabagal is getting a railway line and station under the project of Kadapa-Bangalore section (Till Kolar) new railway line.
Etymology
"Mulabagilu" (ಮುಳಬಾಗಿಲು) comes from the word mudalabagilu, which means the "eastern door" in the native Kannada language. Mulabagilu was supposedly the easternmost frontier of (and thereby the entrance to) the state of Mysuru.
History
A local legend describes how the Hanuman temple was built by Arjuna, one of the Pandavas, after the Mahabharata war. Sage Vasishta is believed to have built the idols of the main deity Srinivasa, Padmavati and Rama-Sita-Lakshmana.
The history of Mulabagilu was compiled by Benjamin Lewis Rice, in his book "The Gazetteer of Mysore" (1887).[1][2] The First sunrise place in india that way the name came mudala bagilu. Later it become a mulabagilu.