Mylara Lingeshwara Temple at Mylara

Mylara (Mailara) Lingeshwara Temple at Mylara is in the extreme south-western corner of Hadagali taluk, Bellary District, North Karnataka

North Karnataka

North Karnataka is an arid plateau from elevation in the Karnataka state of southwest India. It is drained by the Krishna River and its tributaries the Bhima, Ghataprabha, Malaprabha, and Tungabhadra...

, India

India

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. Situated 2 km from Tungabhadra river and 40 km from Hadagali and 34 km from Ranebennur.
Mylara Lingeshwara is one of the forms of Shiva

Shiva

Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

. The temple is dedicated to Shiva worshipped by Kuruba Gowdas in his form as Mailari.

Mallasura (Demon) and his brother performed a severe penance extracted from Brahma

Brahma

Brahma is the Hindu god of creation and one of the Trimurti, the others being Vishnu and Shiva. According to the Brahma Purana, he is the father of Mānu, and from Mānu all human beings are descended. In the Ramayana and the...

, and a promise that they should never be harmed by any human being, began to harass the sages or rishis.