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This thread is on famous fort, which was acquired by Tippu Sulthan. All images are shot on Redmi Note 5 Pro. An amazing adventures trip with Redmi.
Chitradurga fort is believed as impregnable with seven lines of concentric ramparts, Chitradurga is a unique picturesque hill fort. Three lines of ramparts are below the hill and four rows are on the slopes of the Rocky hill.
The lower most fortification has Four main entrance gates. One at the east called Rangayyana Bagilu and leads to Ranganatha temple. Siddayyana bagilu or santhe bagilu is at the north.
To the weat Ucchangina bagilu, also known as Sihineeruhondada Bagilu as a sweet water pond near to it. The northern gate is knows as Lalkote bagilu.
All the three lower fort lines have deep moats. The forwalls are tall with impressive gigantic boulders being used in them. There arealso remains of berms and ponds used to stock ghee and oil. Insidethe fort there are 14 temples. Of these, the ucchangamma temple inside thelower fort is very important. This fort of the vijayanagara times (15thcentury) was the headquarters of the heroic feudatory family of the nayakas.
On the hill inside the fort are the temples of sampigesiddeshwara, hidimbeshwara, eknatheshwari, phalguneshwara. Gopalakrishna andsubrahmanya. The lingas or images of phalguneshwara. Eknatheshwari andhidimbeshwara, are vnstalled in projecting rocks or caves and their frontageshave navarangas and mukhamantapas beautifully built. Some of the temples haveshikharas in chalukyan style. The siddeshwara and the hidimbeshwara haveshikhara that resemble festive chariot (teru) and are called as bhimana rathaand hidimba ratha.
The place is described as hidimbavana of mahabharathadays. The fort remind one of the heroic and variousdeeds of the nayaka rulers, was conquered by haider ali in 1779 ad., lowerparts of the fort were strengthered by haider and tipu. The fort has a total of19 main gates, 35 smaller entrances and 35 secret inlets, and among the lastnamed one reminds the heroism of obavva. A housewife. Chandravalli very near tochitradurga was one of the capitals of satavahanas, had trade contact with romeand china. The inscription of kadamba mayura sharma is also found here.
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