Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c16.s1.7

c16.s1.7

The intervening gaps in between the huge rocks and hillocks, which spread almost around the entire environs of Vijayanagar city, were bridged with solid mess of stone walls, that served a frame work of the impregnable defence-wall-system. The high hills (Fig.58) rocks and boulders were the gifts of nature, that stand erect, even now, as the watch-towers and defensive bastions, over looking the plains beyond on the west, south and the east.