A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c7.18

c7.18

The south-eastern and the relatively higher southern Mysore portion of the plateau is a granitoid and gneissic country strikingly different from the trap region. The extensive vista of level-topped, square-crested, nearly horizontal lava-capped hills gives place to more rounded and graceful dome-capped hills and knolls in the south. Many of these circular or nearly circular hills rise precipitously from the surrounding gneissic plain, and their strategic value was appreciated by successive rulers of the land who erected extensive and sometimes impregnable fortifications on them.