5 Rupee: Mahatma Basaveshwara
 
Bangalore:
Nearly 500 members of the Kerala State unit of Basava Samithi were
among those present when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released the
Basaveshwara commemorative coin here.
Basava
[also known as Basavanna] flourished in the 12th century in Karnataka.
He was a Prime Minister to king Bijjala who ruled from 1157 to 1167
over Kalyana, a city of historic importance. Basava was indeed a great
prophet for in him we find the combination of rare qualities. He was a
mystic by temperament, an idealist by choice, a statesman by
profession, a man of letters by taste, a h
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