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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Kurugodu
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| other_name = Kurugodu
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| settlement_type = town
| image_skyline = Kurugodu Taluk Map.jpg
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| image_caption = Kurugodu Taluk Map
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Karnataka, India
| coordinates = {{coord|15.346|N|76.836|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Karnataka]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Bellary]]
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| parts_type = [[Taluka]]s
| parts = Kurugodu
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| unit_pref = Metric
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| population_total = 17379
| population_as_of = 2001
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Kannada]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
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| registration_plate =KA 34
| website = {{URL|kurugodutown.mrc.gov.in/}}
| iso_code = [[ISO 3166-2:IN|IN-KA]]
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'''Kurugodu''' is a town in the southern state of [[Karnataka]], [[India]].<ref name="censusindia">Village code= 913400 {{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Village_Directory/Population_data/Population_5000_and_Above.aspx |title=Census of India : Villages with population 5000 & above |publisher=Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India |access-date=2008-12-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208044522/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Village_Directory/Population_data/Population_5000_and_Above.aspx |archive-date=2008-12-08 }}</ref><ref name="yahoomaps">{{cite web|url=http://in.maps.yahoo.com |title=Yahoomaps India |access-date=2008-12-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218082545/http://in.maps.yahoo.com/ |archive-date=2008-12-18 }} Kurugodu, Bellary, Karnataka</ref> It is headquarters of Kurugodu [[taluk]] in [[Bellary district]] of Karnataka. The Sri [[Dodda Basaveshwara Temple]] (Big Basava) is located here. Every year Ratha Mahothsava of the Swamy Dodda Basaveshwara held on holy [[Purnima|Poornima]].

== Name ==
The name ''Kuṟugōḍu'' is presumably derived from the [[Kannada]] words ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%B1%E0%B3%81 kuṟu]'' and ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%81 kōḍu]'', giving it a meaning "the hill with a small or low top". The name was presumably given in reference to one of the various hills on the north and west sides of the village. The spelling ''Kuṟugōḍu'' is attested in several medieval records (see below).<ref name="Barnett 1917">{{cite journal |last1=Barnett |first1=Lionel D. |author1-link=Lionel Barnett |title=Two Inscriptions From Kurgod |journal=[[Epigraphia Indica]] |date=1917–18 |volume=14 |pages=265–84 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48790/page/n327 |access-date=10 May 2025}}</ref>{{rp|265}}

== History ==
In the 1100s, Kurugodu was the site of a prominent [[hillfort]] (''durga''). It is mentioned in lists of fortresses captured by the [[Hoysala Empire|Hoysala]] kings [[Vishnuvardhana]] and [[Viraballala II]], as well as two separate inscriptions from Kurugodu itself, one on each side of the same stone slab. Inscription A, which unusually starts in [[Sanskrit]] before switching into [[Prakrit]] and then into Kannada, records four different donations to a temple of Shiva, two of which are dated: one to 6 December 1173 and the other to 24 October 1181. The inscription itself is undated, but according to [[Lionel Barnett]], it was probably made on or shortly after the 1181 date. Inscription B is incomplete and undated, but is dated to the reign of the same ruler as Inscription A: [[Rachamalla II (Sinda)|Rachamalla II]] of the [[Sinda dynasty (Karnataka)|Sinda dynasty]]. It describes the construction of a temple to Shiva at Kurugodu, and its incomplete part was probably intended to record a donation made to that temple.<ref name="Barnett 1917"/>{{rp|265–7, 278–9}}

The inscriptions identify Kurugodu as part of the contemporary district of [[Ballakunde]] (which another inscription identifies as a [[number-districts in medieval India|300-district]] within the larger region of [[Sindavadi|Sindavāḍi]]).<ref name="Barnett 1917"/>{{rp|266–7}}

== Demographics ==
[[File:Water Map of Kurugodu Taluk.pdf|thumb|left|Water Map of Kurugodu Taluk]]
{{As of|2001}} India [[census]], Kurugodu had a population of 17,379 with 8,815 males and 8,564 females.<ref name="censusindia" />

==Geography==
* [[Bellary]]
* [[Districts of Karnataka]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* http://Bellary.nic.in/

{{Settlements in Bellary district}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Ballari district]]
[[Category:Taluks in Ballari district]]

{{Bellary-geo-stub}}

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