Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c18.s1.9

c18.s1.9

Kautilya also deals with other kinds of forts, for example: Jaladurga (Fig. 87). This is to be built in a roughly hexagonal layout, with harbours on the opposite sides and soldiers guarding the entrances in the other opposite sides. With the temple at the centre, the main streets run in a radial way surrounded by paramount buildings such as royal palaces, mansions of ministers, public offices, buildings of nobles, houses of Brahmanes. These in turn are surrounded by soldiers.