Basavana-Bagewadi

Basavana Bagewadi is remembered as the birthplace of Basava, the twelfth-century teacher and reformer associated with the Lingayat tradition. He served at the court of the Kalachuri ruler Bijjala and composed devotional verses in Kannada. The town’s Basaveshwara temple preserves the association with his life, while his teachings and poems spread far beyond Bagewadi.