Budikote’s association with Hyder Ali is carried by a modest memorial and a village landscape, not by an intact royal palace. Seeing that scale clearly is better history than enlarging the site in prose.
What the record supports
The Commons file Budikote.jpg is a public-domain photograph of the birthplace memorial. OpenStreetMap separately marks the named fort feature at node 3316175218 and the village at node 3316175219.
How to read the place
Begin at the locally confirmed public approach to the memorial, then view only fort remains reachable from public ground. Do not assign every wall to Hyder Ali or enter a residence because it lies within an imagined fort boundary.
Keep Budikote distinct from nearby attractions. Their photographs, opening hours, permissions and facilities cannot be transferred to this site.