[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c45.786 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c45.786 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c45.786 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c45.786](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c45.786) The excavated w. gateway built of large slabs of dressed laterite is remarkably elaborate. The imposing complex has a passage, 8 m wide, between the two flankwalls and two gates, outer and inner, giving access to the interior of the town. Immediately behind the outer entrance a guard-room was built in the s. flank while the n. flank near the inner gate was pierced by a narrow pathway for pedestrian traffic, presumably as a bypass when the main passage was closed. The top of the flanks could be ascended by flights of stone steps set on either side of the passage in the interior. Excavation has further revealed the collapse of and subsequent repairs to the gateway and attached ramparts. This was a significant event which bears a striking correspondence to the accounts in the Hāthīgumphā inscription on the UDAYAGIRI hill wherein Kharavela is stated to have rebuilt the gates and the walls of the capital hit by a devastating cyclone. - [Previous: v2.c45.785](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c45.785) - [Next: v2.c45.787](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c45.787) - [Up: v2.c45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c45) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c45.786](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c45.786) · Pramāṇa