Hampi Ruins - Described and Illustrated

a The entrance to it from the south-west for instance was at one time a fortified gateway on the huge embankment which stands at the foot of the hills two miles the other side of Hospet—nine miles as the crow flies from the centre of the ruins. [...] The lowest ground of all is covered with fields of tall cholam sugarcane or of green and golden rice watered by the channel which one of the kings of the days gone by led from the Tungabhadra to supply the people and irrigate the orchards and rose-gardens of his capital. [...] With the exception of the large temple of Pattabhi Rama which is situated half.a mile to the east of the village on the road to Bellary and a small ruined Poligar fort with a high round tower in the centre circular bastions at the four corners and other bastions in the middle of the walls conecting these Kamalapur does not contain any buildings of archmological interest. [...] They quarrelled and Sugriva was driven out by his brother and fled with Hanuman the famous monkey-chief of the poem who had been one of his ministers to the woods of the hill Rishyamtika on the bank of the Pampa near the dwelling place of the holy rishi Matanga on the mountain called Matanga Parvatam [see Fig. [...] Pampasaras or Pampatirtham is the name of a tank on the Nizam's side of the Tungabhadra near Anegundi and Pampa is also said to be the ancient and puranic name of the river ; Rishyamtika is the hill on the Nizam's side of the narrowest of the gorges in the river already mentioned ; Matanga Parvatam or Matanga's hill has been referred to above ; Malyavanta hill (see the Map) lies to the east of i