Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c8.s1.t1.1

c8.s1.t1.1

While these are the material evidences we have of the chalcolithic period regarding defence walls, we have clear references to the existance of forts even in the earliest literature of India, namely the Vēdas. The Ṛigvēda the powerful mighty God Indra with his Vajrāyudha i.e. Thunderbolt is described as "Purandhara", and destroyer of a hundred forts.