HoovinaHadagali or HuvinaHadagali is a town and a taluk in the
Vijayanagara district of
Karnataka,
India. It is the administrative headquarters of the HuvinaHadagali Taluk.
An inscription found on a slab set up at the western entrance into the
Keshavaswami temple at Huvina Hadagali, records that "Rebbaladevi, wife of the brave
Brahman general Ravideva or Raviga caused the construction of the temple of Kesavadeva in Puvina-Posavadangile, which was her birthplace and having set up the god in the temple, made grants of many plots of land for the service of the god and for maintaining a feeding house for Brahmans, a flower garden and a house for the satra, in the presence of the Brahman Mahajanas of the place".
An inscription found on a slab set in the front of the
Anjaneya temple at Yenigi, Hadagali Taluk, records that "while the king (the
Sevuna Yadava king Kandharadeva or Kannara (1247-1261)) was camping at the nelevidu of
Devagiri, the 120 Brahman Mahajanas of Puvina-Padangile, who are described as very learned in the
Vedas and the
Shastras, performing
Aupasana and
Agnihotra and as ripukula-kadali-vana-kunjarar (as destructive to enemies as elephants to a forest of plantain-trees) and saranagata-vajra-panjarar (mail-armour to those who seek shelter under them), made a gift of various plots of land of specified boundary, for the service of the god Kusmanatha at the village." Puvina-Padangile is stated to have been "situated in the Kogali-nadu, which was the eye of the Nolambavadi-nadu which again was, as it were, the nose of Kuntala-desa".
Demographics
As of 2001[update] India
census,[4] Huvina Hadagali had a population of 23,404. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Huvina Hadagali has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 67%, and female literacy is 53%. In Huvina Hadagali, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.[citation needed]