Bagalkot/Bagalkote (Kar)

Kan: ಬಾಗಲಕೋಟ bāgalakōṭa ‘Fort Gateway’  [Bagadige] City/District, Karnataka (Kar) Kan: bāgil/bāgal/bākal, ‘doorway’, ‘entrance’, ‘gate’; and  kōṭe, ‘fort’, ‘rampart’. Stories tell of this town being offered as a present by Ravana, (demon) king of Lanka, to his...