Basavana Bagewadi

Basavana Bagewadi is a town in the Vijayapura (Bijapur) district of Karnataka, south India. It is traditionally held to be the birthplace of Basava (Basaveśvara, 12th c.), the social reformer and central figure of the Vīraśaiva (Liṅgāyat) movement and its vacana poetry.