Manasara Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Shilpashastra; III. Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Manasara: Translation; V. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v6.c40.s1.3

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There is a main road, designated by the excavator as East Street, which runs across the site from east to west. There is another long street, but less important as the thoroughfare of the city, which crosses East Street at right angles and thus runs from north to south and is designated as First Street. 'From these two long streets, as well as from the short sections of others disclosed in other parts of the site, it is evident that the city was intersected by long streets or approximately straight thoroughfares mainly oriented north to south or east to west; and it is natural to suppose that one of these thoroughfares—perhaps the most important of them all—ran north to south through the broad depression which divides the *Stūpa* Mound from the rest of the site, in a line parallel to First Street and connecting at right angles with East Street.'² The main thoroughfares are all below the level of the buildings erected alongside of them.