Kudalasangama

Kudalasangama [cite web
url=http://vishwagurubasavanna.com/KudalaSangama.aspx
title=Kudala Sangama
publisher=
accessdate=2008-09-08] (also written as "Kudala Sangama") in India is an important center of pilgrimage for people of the Lingayat faith. It is located about 15 km from the Almatti Dam in Bagalkot district of Karnataka state. The Krishna and Ghataprabha rivers merge here and flow towards Srisaila (another pilgrim center) of Andra Pradesh. The "Aikya Mantapa" or the holy "Samadhi" of Basavanna, the founder of the Lingayat faith along with Linga, which is believed to be self-born ("Swayambhu"), is situated here. The Kudala Sangama Development Board [cite web
url=http://www.karnataka.gov.in/dpal/pdf_files/KUDALA%20SANGAMA%20DEVELOPMENT%20BOARD%20ACT-new-66.htm
title=THE KUDALA SANGAMA DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, 1994. arrangement of sections
publisher=
accessdate=2008-09-08] takes care of the maintenance and development of this place.

Tourism

Main attractions are

* Sangamanatha Temple, it is in Chalukya style.

* Aikya linga of Basaveshwara

* Basava Dharma Peetha's Mahamane Campus

* Poojavana

The Poojavana with neat paths amidst trees, a mini forest.

* The colossal Sabha Bhavana

A spacious auditorium with a seating capacity for 6,000. The exquisite doorways on four sides named after Gangambike, Nilambike, Channabasavanna and Akka Nagamma, surround the huge grey dome in the centre.

* The tall Basava Gopura

Slated to house the Basava International Centre, 200 ft high symmetrical tower looks imposing.

* Museum

The ashrama meant for visitors to stay also has a museum and a collection of attractive sculptures.

The authorities concerned are doing everything to ensure good facilities for pilgrims.

Vishwaguru Basavanna

Lord Basava the great prophet and socail reformer.

Bagewadi(Basavana Bagewadi), a small village in Bijapur District, in North Karnataka, also called as Ingaleshwara Bagewadi. Agrahara was an important place in town. The house of Madiraja the chief of the township was situated here.

Basaveshwara [cite web
url=http://vishwagurubasavanna.com/LifeOfBasava.aspx
title=Birth Of Lord Basavanna
publisher=
accessdate=2008-09-08] was born to Madarasa and Madalambike on third day of Vyshakha month of Anandanama year in Rohini star. [The year coincides with 1134 A.D.]

Basavanna is a great saint, this great soul lived in the 12th century. a true visionary and a revolutionary who gave universal religion to the mankind. Basavanna's ultimate aim was to make this fundamental right available to each and everyone.

Basavanna, keeping Welfare as the ultimate aim, he expedited programmes to take religion to the people. By preaching and writing religious literature in the mother tongue (Kannada).

Literature

Vachana Sahitya.