Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c18.s1.10

c18.s1.10

Thus from Kautilya's concept of the fort, we can understand that almost all the basic safety measures for the inmates and fatal obstacles (Fig. 82 and Fig. 84) to the incoming enemies have been thought of, thus giving a very secure planning of a fort. It is not that the fort should be constructed exactly in the way that has been enunciated by him; in fact he did not obviously mean it. What is noteworthy is that, all possible measures most favourable to subjects and fatal to enemies have already been suggested in this concept.