Shivagange

Shivagange is a mountain peak with a height of 1,368 metres (4,488 ft) and Hindu pilgrimage center located near Dobbaspet, in Bengaluru Rural district India.

[1] [2] [3] The sacred mountain is shaped as a shivalinga and a spring flows near locally called "Ganga", thereby giving the place its name.

Its outline appears from the east as a bull, from the west as a Ganesha, from the north as a serpent, and from the south as a linga.

It is mentioned by its present name in the 12th century as one of the distant points to which the Lingayat faith established by Basava, the minister of Bijjala, king of Kalyana.

During the reign of Hoysala kings, the queen Shanthala, wife of Vishnuvardhana, who committed suicide from this hill as she did not give birth to a son.

[4] A month-long cattle fair is held during Sankranthi month (around January) every year, which is a market place for bullocks.

Due to various factors like deforestation, unsustainable extraction of ground water, soil erosion, encroachments and eucalyptus plantations the river has dwindled in size.