Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Sankagiri, the hill fort
On the way to Yercaud we climbed some distance of the massive fort of Sankagiri , supposed to be the fort occupied by Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali in the 19 th century . We tried to see the renovated Perumal temple on the hill but could not , because it was closed at that time.The steps leading to the top and the massive fortified walls and stone halls with carvings of Sita Rama and Hanuman were amazingly beautiful. My own hunch is that it would have been a Hindu ruler's fort later occupied by the Moslem rulers .That is what probably explains the Hindu motifs on the stone pillars. ¶ 7:25 AM
On the way to Yercaud we climbed some distance of the massive fort of Sankagiri , supposed to be the fort occupied by Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali in the 19 th century . We tried to see the renovated Perumal temple on the hill but could not , because it was closed at that time.The steps leading to the top and the massive fortified walls and stone halls with carvings of Sita Rama and Hanuman were amazingly beautiful. My own hunch is that it would have been a Hindu ruler's fort later occupied by the Moslem rulers .That is what probably explains the Hindu motifs on the stone pillars. ¶ 7:25 AM
