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The dimension of the smallest town unit is 100 × 200 × 4 cubits; the largest town-unit is 7200 × 14400 × 4 cubits (lines 3–33). A town may be laid out from east to west or north to south according to the position it occupies (line 102). There should be one to twelve large streets in a town (lines 110–111). It should be built near a sea, river or mountain (lines 73, 51), and should have facilities for trade and commerce (lines 48, 74) with the foreigners (line 63). It should have defensive walls, ditches and forts (line 47) like a village. There should be gate-houses (gopura, line 46), gates, drains, parks, commons, shops, exchanges, temples, guest houses, colleges (line 48 f.) etc., on a bigger scale than in a village.