Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c16.s5.1

c16.s5.1

From the above description in detail, we can understand that what remains of the fort wall is but very small of what was there originally. In the extant outermost wall found in fragments here and there is a gateway known as Penugoṇḍa gate (Fig.59) for the main way from this gate (Fig.58, Schedule 21) leads to Penugoṇḍa (now in Āndhra Pradēsh) during the time of Vijayanagara empire. Its location now is about 2½ km. east of Kamalāpuram. This gate is taken up for the study first, but it does not imply that this was the first gate then. Among the extant gates this is the outermost. Similarly there is another gate in the northern wing of the wall from the Kamalāpuram tank, almost at the same distance west of Kamalāpuram, but now this gate is not much known and not used by the public.