Halathi

This centre is a sacred place of Puranic importance and is located half a km from the village Alati situated nine km northeast to the taluk centre Nagamangala. A record from Nagamangala dated 1173 A.D. refer to this place ‘Halatti’ and a record from Dodda Jataka dated 1512 A.D. refers to this ‘Aletigrama’. The local villagers refer to this as ‘Halti’ and the nearby hill as Haltigiri. This is a hill in the mountain range along the road from Nagamangala to Tumkur in the southnorth direction.

The cave temple of Malleshwara on the peak of the hill can be reached through the steps from east to west. record dated 1605 A.D. refers to the grant given to a certain Singalideva Odeya by his disciple Muddanna son of Chikki. The grant included ’14 gulige honnu’ for the construction of a mud bund to the tank called ‘Devarakatte’ and the interest of three Hanas per Gulige Honnu for the purpose of the perpetual lamp to the god. The reference to the coin ‘Gulige Honnu’ is significant.