The invincible gingee castle
On our manner back from puducherry to bengaluru, we made an impromptu choice to prevent over at the gingee castle. Set amidst stunning natural rocky terrains, this is a unique place frequented by trekkers and journey fanatics.
But what stands proud exceptionally is its historic importance. The primary aspect that we observed upon entering was the amazing vastness of the enclosure. Spanning over 3 hillocks, the citadel complex is thought to hold a place of about 11 rectangular kilometres this is limited through massive walls and cliffs all round. As it's far ascertained, gingee castle was extremely well planned and comfy, a lot in order that chatrapathi shivaji had himself claimed that it was the maximum impregnable castle. We got down to trek the rajagiri hill, that is the best many of the three. A sequence of over 1,000 steps might usher us to the castle on the top. Along our way, we got here throughout several structures like stables, granaries, temples and shrines among others.
A seven-storeyed kalyana mahal adjoining to a big stepped tank, a health club for squaddies, a unique target audience corridor and a mag (for garage of ammunition) had been some of the maximum conspicuous architectures that served thrilling purposes. These days, they all continue to exist as paying homage to a big township that when flourished within the area. Our ascent become getting strenuous at some stretches, however the cool cloudy climate saved us going. And the panoramic views had been promising as well. It is stated that the credit for the preliminary hilltop fortification is going to the konar kings who recognized the capability of the vicinity many centuries in the past. But, the encompassing walls and all of the other constructions had been finished sooner or later.
Between the 14th and 18th centuries, the fort become consecutively seized and managed via the vijayanagara state, gingee nayakas, bijapur sultans, marathas, mughals, french and the british. Every of those dynasties had revamped the citadel at some point of their tenure contributing to the elegance it had attained. Due to the multiplied domain, the location became strategically vital to push back the invading enemies. Gingee's proximity to chennai and the eminent port of puducherry turned into an added vantage factor. In any case, it become abandoned within the nineteenth century. What we see these days are the ruins of a fortress that had witnessed its honest percentage of glory along side numerous invasions, wars and valour.
Currently, gingee castle is maintained by using the asi and is a traditional traveller attraction. For the moment, as the cloudy day subsequently turned out to be rainy, our trek needed to be reduce short. Unfortunately, we couldn't make it to the summit. There's continually a subsequent time! With any luck, then we might additionally be capable of reach out in the direction of krishnagiri hill, which is every other sizable part of this monumental fortress complicated.
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