Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c15.s1.16

c15.s1.16

Described above, the fort, with the moat around is the earliest, probably belonging to Kalyan Chalukyan period; and in the central part of the fort (Fig.45), there must have been important mansions, including possibly the palace complex, temples etc. but this fort was destroyed owing to Muslim invasions carried out by Malik-Kafur (C.1310 A.D.); immediately after the fall of the Kalyana Chalukyas and the fort fell in to ruins (Desai,P.B., ^et al. 1970 PP. 239-40 and Yazdani,G., 1960, pp. 3-4).