Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c12.s1.6

c12.s1.6

The inscription is important in several ways but more important in two respects for our study. The first line contains the date in Saka era i.e. 465 (543 A.D.) and the last line describing the impregnable character of the fort during that time that is inaccessible both from the top and the bottom. Let us discuss the fort against the background of the geological, geographical and economical conditions of the place, that attracted Pulikēśhi I, to make the place as the capital of his kingdom.