Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c16.s5.t1.1

c16.s5.t1.1

In front of the Domed gate and about a kilometre away, but within the enclosure wall, is another gate nameless. It now stands isolated with stumps of fort wall on its sides. Unfortunately, no meaningful traces are available to apprise of its relative position with the enclosure wall. Presumably, there was probably another gate in the enclosure wall leading to this gate. But this part of the wall is not extant. The gate is quite simple in plan and elevation. On the frontal side of the gate are guard rooms. Again another unusual feature is on the jambs of the door are sculptures of the Dwarapalas with Danda in their hands. The upper part of the door is framed into an arch by corbelling with a typical Vijayanagara lotus motif in the brackets. On the sides of the passage through the gate there are no guard rooms. The street fr this gate leads to the Domed gate.