Tumkur district is an administrative district in Karnataka, with its headquarters in Tumkur city. It 70 kilometers from the capital city if Karnataka, Bangalore. Also known as the religious city of Karnataka. Tumkur has a number of temples, each narrating stories filled with lots of historic essence. There are only a few places in this districts that are, according to legends, associated with the epics Ramayana and Mahabharat. One of these is Kadaba in the Gubbi taluk. Tradition has it that Rama on his written from Lanka encamped hare and at the request of Seetha, he ordered the river, which was too narrow at this spot, to be dammed so as to form the present large tank. According to the sthalapurana, Rama was received and honored here by the sage Kadamba who had his hermitage in this locality.
Tumkur district, History, Vijayanagara Empire
