Kempegowda Kannada Movie Dialogues Download
Sibyl Piccuillo
What makes the book interesting is that the book does not quote facts and figures like a History textbook.Rather it is written in a typical narrative style with dialogues and tries to give you a glimpse of Kempegowda, his thoughts,his dreams and his love;it throws more light on the magnetic personality of Bangalore Kempegowda. All this makes the book an interesting one time read. Here are a couple of things that I learnt about Bangalore history.
461 years of rule in the State. And what remains? A few tanks,statues, temples,watch towers and partial sections of fort albeit in stone. Rapid strides of development in the city has not been able to erase traces of Kempegowda reign. Kempegowda considered to be the founder of Modern Bangalore built a fortified city in Bangalore in 1537. However his ancestor Ranebhairegowda arrived much earlier in the city some time in 1267 from Kanchi. Some say RaneBhairegowda with his seven brothers fled from Kanchi trying to escape a powerful suitor who was behind his daughter while another version says that they moved because of famine conditions in Kanchi. Whatever the reasons the Gowda family settled in Avati near Nandi hills. He and his brothers were responsible for creating new settlements.
It is said that Rane Bhaire Gowda found urn full of coins and two statues of Chennakeshava and Venugopala in Avati. He installed the Chennakeshava idol at Avati and Venugopala at Devanahalli. The temple at Devanahalli still exists. There are some ruins in Huttari as well of Rana Bhairegowda.
His son Jaya Gowda raised an army and shifted his center to Yelhanka- North of Bangalore. Though initially Nandi hills,Avati and Devanhalli were under his control he expanded his territories to include Bangalore,Ulsoor,Kengeri,Magadi,Savandurga,Hulliyur durga,Huttari durga,shivgange,Hulikal etc.
An interesting thing most of these territories are regions where river Arkavathy flows.
Later his son Giddegowda and then his son KempNanjegowda ruled. KempeNanjegowda ruled between 1480-1510 and during this time Krishnadevaraya ruled from Vijayanagara. After his death Bangalore Kempegowda came to power.
He was however defeated by Mysore Wodeyar king and imprisoned in Srirangapatna. Here he seemed to have a written a secret letter to Krishnarajagowda of Hulikal in 1728 in kannada. He had sent this letter along with a sword with his trusted soldier Soma and had implored Krishnarajagowda to free him from captivity. He however died in captivity.
How did the city of Bangalore built? One fine morning Kempegowda on his horseback set out in different directions from Yelhanka. After touring east,west and north for a week he headed south. After crossing 10-12 miles from Yelhanka, he reached a dense forest. Inside were rocks,boulders,hillocks and a number of pools filled to the brim due to the recent rains. Cool breeze,numerous birds greeted Kempegowda and he decided this was the perfect place to build his fort,palace,temples and tanks- a city that he had dreamt of when he had seen the splendor of Vijayanagara or rather Hampi.
On an auspicious day after a Bhoomi/land pooja four farmers with a pair of bullocks each set out from the spot in different directions. When the bullocks stopped a big stone was kept as a marker. The land was leveled, a fort,moat and gradually a palace got built. The main streets with trees on either side and finally temples,tanks,stables etc got built. The east entrance of fort was named as Halsur gate,the west Sondekoppa, the North was named Yelhanka gate and the south Anekal. The entrance gateways also had a Hanuman temple built. Many markets called petes came up depending on the trade practised- Chikpete,Doddapete,Akkipete,Balepete,Arelepete. There were streets where communities resided as well- Tigalarapete,Kumbarpete,Ganigarpete,Madivalapete,Gowdarapete,Sourastra pete,Gollarapete,Telegupete etc. Keres or ponds were built too. Kempabudi kere- in honor of family deity of Gowdas-Kempamma, Dharmabudhi in symbol of duty or dharma, Chennamma in honor of his wife and others like Siddikatte,sampangi,Siddapuradakere etc.
Temples,wedding halls,boarding and lodging rooms,mutts too came up. Kempegowda also gave a lot of grants for maintenance of these organizations. Pleased with his governance Achutatraya-the Vijayanagara king gifted him 30000 pagodas and other regions like Ulsoor,Mavalli,Hesarghatta,Begur,Jigani etc. This is how Kempegowda fort and city was built.
Today there are some roads,institutions,markets and towers are named after him the city. Kempegowda jayanti is celebrated on 27th June every year.His statues in the city gets decked up, Kempegowda songs are sung,plays are enacted,speeches are given. The city forgets about him the next day.
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