Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c18.s4.t1.38

c18.s4.t1.38

50-52: Having four gates towards the four cordinal points and furnished with Gopuras (towers) dotted over with guard-rooms, equipped with everywhere barracks, full of merchants and encircled with markets crowded with people and filled with temples of various denominations in side and out side, such a place is called a city proper."