Vadigenahalli (Vadigenhalli)
Town
Bengaluru Rural district
Karnataka
The clearest gazetteer statement in the whole Bangalore district linking a town's trade to a Vaishya community: 'The principal trade of Vadigenhalli is in the hands of Nagarta merchants, and consists of the import and export of cotton.' A municipality with population 3,970 (1891) and a Friday fair attended by 300 people. For a genealogist tracing Nagartha cotton-trading families out of Bengaluru, this is the documented satellite town.
Community institutions
Kesava temple, Vadigenahalli
Temple ·
high confidence
Built at the same date and by the same account, design said to be taken from temples at Kanchi.
Nagaresvara temple, Vadigenahalli
Temple ·
high confidence
Rice (1897): 'The two temples of Nagaresvara and Kesava were erected about fifty years ago, and the designs are said to be taken from temples at Kanchi.' Nagareshwara is the standard Vaishya/Nagartha tutelary dedication; the temple therefore dates to about 1845, in a town whose trade Rice attributes to Nagarta merchants.
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