Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c12.s2.1

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The present village (Fig. 22) is located on the western bank of the tank i.e. Agastya Tirtha and in between the two wings of the hills described as the North Hill and the South Hill. In fact, the whole hill range covers a very vast area several square kilometres. The top is almost flat, forming a big hill plateau. In the eastern valley's of this hill about 5 kilometres East and North-east of Bādāmi are Nāgarāl, Hale and Hosa Mahākuṭa. The south wing extends southwards to a distance of about 4 or 5 kilometres, but the north wing is practically an isolated knob rising to a height of 150 metres with very steep sides around excepting the north-eastern side. Immediately to the east and north of the hill are narrow valleys barbed by the ranges of the same hill complex. Thus North-hill forms as if a natural watch tower commanding the views of the narrow valleys in the south-east and north and the open vast fields on the west. Thus, the summit of the hill which is intensively flat is not easily accessible.