page_title: Bugle Rock
section_title: Honour to distinguished people
hierarchical_section_title: Bugle Rock / Honour to distinguished people
caption_attribution_description: A statue of Kannada litterateur, philosopher and Jnanapeetha Awardee D V Gundappa(popularly known as DVG) at Bugle Rock Gardens, Bengalooru, INDIA. Founder of Bengaluru city, Kempe Gowda and Bharata Ratna Sir M V Vishweshwariah are seen behind.
context_page_description: Bugle Rock is a massive rock in the Basavanagudi area of South Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka. It is an abrupt rise above the ground of peninsular gneiss as the main rock formation and with an assessed age of about 3,000 million years. Bugle Rock has generated wide interest among the scientific community.
  Kempe Gowda II, the feudal ruler of Bangalore, is credited with building four watchtowers setting limits for Bangalore's expansion, which included a tower on the Bugle Rock as it commands a panoramic view of Bangalore city. It is said that at sunset a sentry would blow the bugle and hold a torch which was visible from the other three watch towers. This was done to inform people that everything was safe at that location and to give a warning bugle call to alert the citizens of any intruders into the city. Most of the rocks on the Bugle Rock, next to the Bull Temple, have hollows, which were once used to light lamps. This landmark spreads over an area of 16 acres. This rock is contiguous and similar to the rock at Lalbagh tower.
context_section_description: The outer wall of an old water tank in the confines of the Bugle Rock park has murals of famous people of Bangalore and Karnataka: Kempe Gowda I (1513–1569), the ruler of Bangalore and Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (1860–1962), the engineer statesman and the builder of modern Karnataka, behind the statue of D V Gundappa, (1887–1975) popularly known as DVG, the Kannada litterateur, philosopher erected in 2002–03 to honour him. It is said that Bugle Rock was the place where D.V. Gundappa used to meet Masti Venkatesh Iyengar, journalist P.R. Ramaiya (of Tainadu newspaper fame, one of the founders of Kannada journalism and the first MLA from the area after independence), artist A.N. Subbarao (founder of Kalamandira which used to be in Gandhi Bazar), lawyers M.P. Somashekhara Rao and Nittoor Srinivasa Rau (who later became the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court) and several other noted people like Prof. V.T. Srinivasan, founder and principal of Vijaya College, Bangalore.
  The park has been named in honour of T.R. Shamanna, a humanitarian and local politician. It has been spruced up with landscaping with rocky steps. An impressive entrance has been sculpted with rock pillars and by adding murals on the unused outer wall of the water tank with engravings of the faces of eminent people.
caption: Statue of D V Gundappa at Bugle Rock Gardens. Kempe Gowda founder of Bengaluru city and Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya are seen behind on the Murals of the old tank wall
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