[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) › c11.59 # Town Planning in Ancient India c11.59 Town Planning in Ancient India c11.59 - **Language:** English ### [c11.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.59) "Finally comes the great completion by Tirumulu, king of builders. In the south Bazar it will be seen that existing properties were respected as they stand mostly facing northward towards the road along the south wall. But this road is norrow, so instead of wasting compensation and upsetting business (as modern municipalities and their engineers in the industrial age of lapsed planning have done, and still largely incline to do), the sensible course is taken, and also the most practical for business and communications, more seemly so, that of making new Bazar Street east and west; and of allocating new plots of larger size on each side, upon the land hitherto unoccupied. Some houses next to the wall outside also a small temple (perhaps private, perhaps for the humbler caste hitherto outside) seems to have already sprung up on the west side. The new street northward is continued with houses on either sides; but on the east the open space next the wall suffices; and also on the north, so far as existing irregular holdings allow. This new enclosure, as yet the final one, is thus kept in good proportion. Its rectangular wall is built, and the four great Gopuras, North, South, East, and West, are now begun, of course, in true alignment to their predecessors. These gateway towers are on a scale unparalleled as their megalithic beginnings show; but they remain unfinished like other works of Tirumulu owing to his untimely and tragic death and as too monumental for the means and inclinations of his successors. - [Previous: c11.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.58) - [Next: c11.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.60) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.59) · Pramāṇa