Origin of the Western Ganga Dynasty: Facts

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60 percent of Carnatic musicians in Karnataka come from Rudrapatna?
excavations at Chandravalli in the Indian state of Karnataka have unearthed coins of Roman emperor Augustus and Chinese Han emperor Wu Ti?
Karnataka is home to the largest concentration of Siddhis (a tribe of African descent) in India?
shrines dedicated to the Hindu sun god Surya usually face east, but the one at the Kasivisvesvara Temple in Lakkundi, Karnataka faces west?
Tejashwini Sreeramesh, an Indian Member of Parliament from the Kanakapura constituency of Karnataka, was previously an anchor of a talk show on Udaya TV?
Allama Prabhu, the mystic-saint of 12th century Karnataka, India, was also an accomplished Vachana poet?
Chitradurga Fort (pictured) in Karnataka has so many interconnecting tanks to harvest rain water, it was said it never ran out of water?
Churumuri.com, one of the most popular blogs on WordPress.com, is named after a snack made of puffed rice that is a speciality of Mysore, Karnataka in India?
Deepak Chougule, a cricketer from the Indian state of Karnataka, created a junior world record for the most runs scored in a single day of a cricket match when he scored 400 runs in a match against Goa?
flora and fauna of the Indian state of Karnataka include a species of ant newly discovered on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science?

Bijjala II of the Kalachuri, a feudatory, eliminated Tailapa III and his family of the Chalukya Kingdom and ruled from Kalyana, now the Basavakalyana Fort, for five years?

11th-century "minister of war and peace" Durgasimha wrote the Kannada language version of the Panchatantra, the first Indian vernacular adaptation of these fables?
Kavirajamarga, the earliest extant literary work in the Kannada language, was written by King Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar?
Jagannatha Dasa is one of the widely known 18th-century saint-poets of the Kannada language?
Nagavarma II, a Kannada language grammarian of the 11th century, authored important writings in prosody, rhetoric, poetics and vocabulary?
Nijaguna Shivayogi, a petty chieftain in 15th-century Karnataka, India, was a visionary writer and poet in the Kannada language?
Sri Ponna, the classical Kannada language poet of c. 950, is considered one of the "three gems of Kannada literature?
Vijaya Dasa, an 18th century Hindu saint from the Karnataka Haridasa tradition, composed about 25,000 devotional songs in the Kannada language?
Shabdamanidarpana, a comprehensive and authoritative work on the grammar of the Kannada language, was written in the 13th century by the Indian linguist and poet Kesiraja?
in 1843 the German missionary Hermann Mögling published the first ever newspaper in the Kannada language?
in c. 990, Nagavarma I authored the earliest available work on the science of prosody in the Kannada language?

Churumuri.com, one of the most popular blogs on WordPress.com, is named after a snack made of puffed rice that is a speciality of Mysore, Karnataka in India?
on the Hindu festival Ratha Saptami, the icons of the Sun-god (pictured) are carried in ceremonial processions in Mysore and Melkote?
the Lalitha Mahal (pictured), a palace in Mysore, India, was built in 1921 on orders of the Maharaja of Mysore for exclusive stay of the Viceroy of India?
the St. Philomena's Church (pictured) in the city of Mysore in India was built in Neo-Gothic style drawing inspiration from the Cologne Cathedral in Germany?
the biggest walk-through aviary in India is located on the shore of the Karanji Lake in Mysore?
the birth place of Tipu Sultan, also known as the Tiger of Mysore, is located 150 metres (490 ft) south-west of Devanahalli Fort in Karnataka, India?
the city of Mysore, in the Indian state of Karnataka, has been called the "Cultural Capital of Karnataka"?
the first private radio station in India was Akashvani which was set up in 1935 in Mysore, Karnataka?