Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c16.s5.t3.8

c16.s5.t3.8

It is worthy of note that the fort in Bījāpur chronologically follows immediately the Vijayanagara fort. It may not be ruled out that the building activity of the fort by Vijayanagara rulers might have been still continued when the fort in Bījāpur began to be constructed (1480-1510 A.D. - the period of Yusuf Ali Ādil Shāh). In view of this close proximity and even to a small extent of the overlap, we find here fundamental differences in the pattern of the layout of the gate-ways and the crowning part of the gateways of the fort.