Puvina-Padangile

Puvina-Padangile, now called Huvina Hadagali, was a settlement known for temples and gardens in the Tungabhadra country. An inscription of 1090 records that Rebbaladevi, wife of a Chalukya general, built the Keshava temple in her birthplace and endowed it with land. Other records name its learned assembly and gifts for worship. Tradition says flowers from the village were floated down the Tungabhadra for the temples and palaces of Vijayanagara.

An inscription dated 1620 records Komaraiah, son of Basavappa Nayaka, as governor of the local fort under a Vijayanagara king. It describes works including fortifications, a tank, a well and a meeting place. The record shows a local community still building and maintaining its settlement after the imperial court had moved away from the old capital.