[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981) › c16.s1.7 # Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c16.s1.7 Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c16.s1.7 - **Language:** English ### [c16.s1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.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. - [Previous: c16.s1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.c16.s1.6) - [Next: c16.s1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.c16.s1.8) - [Up: c16.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.c16.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.c16.s1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.c16.s1.7) · Pramāṇa