Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c18.s5.t1.25

c18.s5.t1.25

The Mānasāra very vividly draws up elaborate development in the canons of forts. It deals with specific plans for villages, towns and cities and equates all these with forts and stresses that each habitation, whether big or small, should be fortified according to its needs. Further, it classifies the institution of Kingship (Rāja) into sixfolds as: