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Begur the Bengaluru inscription and intach

The begur temple and its famous inscription the battle mentioning the bottle of Bengaluru have a special place in the city’s history the temple also has a special place in intach s history this was were the first of our popular parichay hertage walks was held in march 2008 Inscriptions in begur safely mounted and highlighted after an intervention by intach Bengaluru chapter with financial support from advaith hyundei the Bengaluru inscription is third from the left Intach earliest trysts with the temple were in the early 2000s when thanks to a small grant frome the department of archaeology (as it was called then),the state chapter of intach worked on the surroundings of the panchalinegeshwara temple in those days the temple was on the banks of the begur lake or kere we cleaned up the surroundings created seating areas and so on (these improvements have since been almost obliterated by the construction activity in temple

In those early very few people knew about the inscription which mentioned the mentioned the name Bengaluru on one of our earlier visits we finally found the inscription hidden under a dirty rag. later visits were more alarming the inscription was often under firewood tin sheets or cement blocks this despite conversations with people associated with the temple and others in the in the meantime three new gopuros were built around the temple two more are in the works

Sirnultaneously volunteers also trekked to the department of endowments of endowments and department of archaeology pressing for the Bengaluru inscription to be protected to no avail eventually we said give us permission and we will do what’s required to be protected to no avail eventually we said  give us  permission and we will do what’s required permissions in place we consulted with temple priests and elders archaeologists HM  siddhanagoudar and ARUN RAJ AND epigraphist HS Gopala Roo  secetary of the Karnataka ltihasa academy  based on their inputs we chose a spot within the temple complex where the inscriptions could be completed before we could begin our work finally in April 2018 six years after we first started the work to safeguard it the Bengaluru inscription was safely mounted on a pedestal in its new go check out this important historical artetuct