Bagevadi Village

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Bagevadi Village

Head-quarters of the taluka of the same name in Bijapur District, Bombay, situated in 16 34' N. and 75 59' E., 12 miles from Telgi station on the Southern Mahratta Railway. Popu- lation (1901), 6,159. According to one account Bagevadi was the birth- place of Basava, the founder or reviver of the Lingayat faith. It has a temple of Baseshwar, with shrines of Ganpati, Sangameshwar, Mallikarjun, and Baseshwar. Of the chief wells, one named Basvanna is believed to be of the same age as the Basvanna temple. Bagevadi is said to have been formerly called Nilgiri Pattan, and afterwards Bagodi, a contracted form of Bagida Hode, i.e. a bent ear of jowar, to which tradition ascribes the origin of Basvanna. The village contains a dis- pensary, a boys' school with 167 pupils, and a girls' school with 41.