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Bengaluru, Karnataka · 12.9654°, 77.5834°
Bengaluru's oldest temple, standing before the city was founded in 1530 and named in Chalukya-period inscriptions, dedicated to Draupadi and the five Pandavas by the Vahni Kula Kshatriya community. It is the seat of the Bengaluru Karaga, the spring festival in which a priest carries an ornate clay pot through the old town in Draupadi's honour.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The temple's ritual cycle re-enacts episodes from the Mahabharata — Draupadi's disrobing, the Pandavas' exile and the death of her sons — from which she emerges as the ideal of womanly strength.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Chalukya era
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