Pagoda

Gangas of Talakad Or the ancient dynasties of South India, the Gangas were one of the most illustrious who ruled over the greater part of the Mysore country, then known by the wellnigh forgotten name Gangavadi which survives only in the designation of a community of Mysore people known to this day as the Gangadikar Vokkaligars. The Gangas of Talakad I n about 450 AD, Harivarman Ganga founded the kingdom in Kolar, the dynasty henceforth known as the Gangas. Harivarman Ganga was formally crowned by Simhavarman Pallava. Eventually Gangas extended their territory towards the Cauvery basin to the west and Bangalore to the east and made Talakad as their capital.The people called this place by the name of these brothers Tala Kad, and the emblem ELEPHANT, and the floral petals were impressed by the Gangas in their coinage.