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A fort in the midst of a forest was a secret training ground for cavalry and elephants

In the early 1700s, KingChellamuthu Vijayaragunatha Sethupathywas gifted 200 horses by a Muslim businessman fromThondi.He built a fort in a dense tropical thorn forest, about 70 km fromRamanathapuram. Here,Sankarapathi, one ofHyder Alis commandants, trained these horses. Impressed by the tutelage, the king named the fort after him