Hosahalli

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Hosahalli
Gamaka Grama
village
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River Tunga during the monsoon
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CountryFile:Flag of India.svg India
StateKarnataka
DistrictShimoga
Named afterGamaka
Government
 • TypePanchayat raj
 • BodyGram panchayat
Population
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Languages
 • OfficialSankethi, Kannada
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
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577 202
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ISO 3166 codeIN-KA
Vehicle registrationKA
Nearest cityShivamogga
Lok Sabha constituencyShimoga
Websitekarnataka.gov.in

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Hosahali is one of twin-villages Mattur-Hosahali, on the banks of the Tunga River in Karnataka state, southern India. It lies in an agricultural region where the main crop is the Areca nut. It is known for Sanskrit, Veda, Gamaka (storytelling) and Sangeetha (Carnatic music) Padma Shri awardee H. R. Keshava Murthy is also from this village. From above, the village appears as a "Paa Ni Pee Tha" (a seat with an extended hand).[<span title="Script error: No such module "decodeEncode".">clarification needed] The village is situated a little over 5 km from Shimoga city and around 4 km from Gajanur Tunga Anicut (dam).[1][2]

Temples

The village has several temples or religious sites.

  • Lord Channakeshava temple with an impressive Rajagopuram (royal temple tower) at its entrance.
  • Durgamaa temple at one end of the village.
  • Shri Rama mandiram is at the heart of the village where Bhajans (devotional singing) on Saturdays and festive days.
  • Mallikarjuna Swamy (Lord Shiva) temple on the bank of river Tunga
  • Varasiddhi Vinayaka Swamy (Lord Ganesha) temple
  • Mariyamma temple
  • Shastri temple
  • shri abhaya anjaneya Swamy devasthana beside durgaa temple

Institutions

Gayathri Veda Pathashaala is a residential vedic school which has a library of books about vedas and mythology. Students learn Krishna Yajurveda. Gamaka Kala Parishat (Academy for Gamaka art), Sankethi Sangeetha Sabha, and Geleyara Balaga are other institutions which occasionally conduct programmes in a village social building activity called Gamaka Bhavana. There is also a branch (shakha) of the volunteer organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in the village.

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Staff Reporter (2 May 2015). "It is the season of mangoes, jackfruit". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Govind, Ranjani (10 July 2017). "More mango ripening chambers to be set up in Karnataka". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 4 September 2020.


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