The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s9.116

c5.s9.116

Kishkindhā—"About a mile easterly from Nimbapur, a small hamlet in the suburb of Bijanagger, lies an oval-shaped heap of calcareous scoria, partially covered by grass and other vegetation. The Brahmins aver it to be the ashes of the bones of giant Walli or Bali, an impious tyrant slain here by Rāma on his expedition to Laṅkā (Ceylon)."—JASB., vol. XIV, p. 519. It appears from the accounts of pilgrims that the ancient Kishkindhā is still called by that name and also by the name of Anagandi. It is a small hamlet situated in Dharwad on the south bank of the river Tuṅgabhadrā near Anagandi, three miles from Bijayanagara (Sewell's Arch Surv of Southern India, I, p 322) and close to Bellary (JRAS, 1894, p 257) About two miles to the south west of Kishkindha is the Pampa sarovara, and to the north west of Pampa sarovara is the Anjana hill, where Hanumana was born, Savari's hermitage was 60 miles to the west of Kishkindha Rama killed Bali, the brother of Sugriva, and gave the kingdom of Kishkindha to the latter (Ramayana, Kishk, ch 26) Kishkindha comprises the hills on the opposite side of the valley that separates it from Hampi, which are wild congeries of fantastic naked granite rocks with narrow valleys between In one of these is shown the place where the body of Raja Bali was burnt, it is a bed of very white carbonate of lime (Meadows Taylor's Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore, p 70)