The Ankali Math sits on a low hillock above the Chandravalli valley, reached by a path that passes a large cave with wall painting fragments. The math itself is a large pillared courtyard — roofed, stone-floored, and dim — that served as the residence of a Veerashaiva religious community for several centuries. A hermit's cell, carved into the rock at the top of a flight of stairs, shows the kind of austere dwelling that suited a solitary mystic two or three centuries ago.
The math is visited in conjunction with the Chandravalli Caves below. The combination makes a half-day trip from the fort and gives a sense of Chitradurga as a place of continuous religious significance, not just military history.