[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Town Planning in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925) › c11.25 # Town Planning in Ancient India c11.25 Town Planning in Ancient India c11.25 - **Language:** English ### [c11.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.25) Notwithstanding their utility as impediments to growth of unsalubrious suburbs, they stood in the way of town-expansion. And this was a serious drawback of the ancient walled cities. The civic authorities, when they saw that the town was no longer capacious enough for its population, sometimes contrived to meet this difficulty by expelling the low classes of menials like the methars (night-soilers) and washermen out of the city and locating them in quarters beyond the moats. Thus the author of the Mayamata says¹:—“A little further away from the city and surrounding it are the hamlets of all kinds of people. About two hundred daṇḍas to the east or south-east of the city are situated the huts of the caṇḍālas and the washermen.”² - [Previous: c11.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.24) - [Next: c11.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.26) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mayamata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.silpa.dravida.mayamata) — Maya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.25) · Pramāṇa