Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c18.s1.5

c18.s1.5

Kautilya gives even the measurements of the moats, fort-wall etc. (Fig.78). The outermost should be of 14 Dandas, the intermediate 12 and the innermost 10. Inbetween the moats there is a bund (embankment) of 2 Dandas wide. It may be noted that the width of the moat decreases by 2 Dandas from (decreases by 2 Dandas from) the outermost to the innermost. It has been after a careful study by experts in Silpa texts like Shama Sastry,R. and Acharya,P.K. etc. that a 'Danda' is found to be equivalent (Shama Sastry,R., 1956, Re.Ed. PP.60-61) to 6 feet or 1.80 metres.