Halmidi
Halmidi is a small village in the Hassan district of Karnataka state, India, near the temple town of Belur.
Halmidi is a small village in the Hassan district of Karnataka state, India, near the temple town of Belur. Halmidi is best known as the place where the oldest known inscription exclusively in Kannada language, the Halmidi inscription, was discovered. Anterior to this, many inscriptions with Kannada words have been discovered, such as Brahmagiri edict of 230 BCE of Emperor Ashoka. However, this is the first full-length inscription in Kannada. This inscription is generally known as the Halmidi inscription and consists of sixteen lines carved on a sandstone slab. It has been dated to 450 CE and demonstrates that Kannada was used as a language of administration at that time. The inscription is in primitive Kannada with distinctive characteristics attributed to those of Proto-Kannada and uses Kannada script similar to Brahmi characters.
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Getting to Halmidi
- Airports
- Mangaluru (IXE), 106 km · Kannur (CNN), 151 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 204 km
- Mangaluru → Halmidi111 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · ₹1,020–1,280
- Kannur → Halmidi161 km · quickest by road, 5h 10m · ₹1,660–2,070
- Bengaluru → Halmidi194 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · ₹1,500–1,880
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No local-transport research exists yet for Halmidi
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Halmidi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundKSTDC uses a luxury four-seats-across bus while the private companies use small, bumpy (especially if sitting in the back) minibuses.
From Wikivoyage: Belur, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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