Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c4.8
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c4.8
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Chapter III, Indus Valley Art, throws light on the identification of the Great Mother Goddess and in it a suggestion has been made that it was a civilization of the Asuras. The existence of the ten contingents of the architecture of a model city at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa shows that their town-planning closely agrees with the description of historical towns built according to plan. These ten items may be identified as *Prākāra* (City-wall), *Vapra* (High Foundation of the rampart or earth work), *Dvāra* (City-gate), *Aṭṭālaka* (Towers & Bastions), *Mahā-patha* (Highway), *Prāsāda* (Palace), *Āpaṇa* (Market-place), *Puṣkariṇī* (Great Bath or religious pond), *Santhāgāra* (Town-hall) and *Koṣṭhāgāra* (Granary). This enables us to see an integrated picture of the earliest town-planning in India.