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About Bangalore: The name Bangalore is an
anglicised version of the city's name in the
Kannada language, Bengaluru. The earliest
reference to the name "Bengaluru" was found in a
9th-century Ganga Dynasty stone inscription on a
"veera kallu". In this inscription found in
Begur, "Bengaluru" is referred to as a place in
which a battle was fought in 890. It states that
the place was part of the Ganga kingdom and was
known as "Bengaval-uru", the "City of Guards" in
old Kannada. An article, published in The Hindu,
states .
GEOGRAPHY: Bangalore is situated in the
southeast of the South Indian state of
Karnataka. It is located in the heart of the
Mysore Plateau (a region of the larger
Precambrian Deccan Plateau) at an average
elevation of 920 m (3,018 feet). It is
positioned at 12.97° N 77.56° E and covers an
area of 2,190 km² (1,360 mi²). Bangalore
District borders with Kolar District in the
northeast, Tumkur District in the northwest,
Mandya District in the southwest, Chamarajanagar
District in the south and the neighbouring state
of Tamil Nadu in the southeast. The Bangalore
Urban district is divided into three taluks:
Bangalore North, Bangalore South and Anekal. The
Bangalore North taluk is a relatively more level
plateau, while the Bangalore South taluk has an
uneven landscape with intermingling hills and
valleys.
Iskcon Temple: The
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
is a denomination of the Gaudiya Vaishnava
faith, a devotional tradition based on the
teachings of Bhagavadgita and the Bhagavat
Purana (Srimad Bhagavatam). The tradition traces
its roots back 5,500 years
SIDE SEEN: Bangalore has a handful of
freshwater lakes and water tanks, the largest of
which are Madivala tank, Hebbal lake, Ulsoor
lake and Sankey Tank. Groundwater occurs in
silty to sandy layers of the alluvial sediments.
Bangalore receives adequate rainfall from the
Northeast Monsoon as well as the Southwest
Monsoon. The Peninsular Gneissic Complex (PGC)
is the most dominant rock unit in the area and
includes granites, gneisses and migmatites,
while the soils of Bangalore consist of red
laterite and red, fine loamy to clayey
soils.[21] Vegetation in the city is primarily
in the form of large deciduous canopy and
minority coconut trees. Bangalore has not been
affected by major seismic activity due to it
being located in a seismically stable zone (Zone
II). Only mild tremors have been recorded in the
city.
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