Town Planning in Ancient India c10.7

c10.7

A reference to the diagrams attached hereto will explain the schemes. The adoption of the foregoing three schemes only was not, however, an invariable practice. Thus the Mayamata lays down that in the planning of villages or houses, civic experts may accept any of the schemes from the first to the tenth, *i.e.* from Sakala to Āsana.¹ Even this was not necessarily invariable as is evident from the Mayamata’s plan of planting twelve east-to-west streets and an equal number of transverse ones. Indeed there was not any rigid rule on this point but the most generally recommended plan is Paramaśāyika of 81 plots.