Town Planning in Ancient India c11.60

c11.60

"This same process of the Temple guiding and including its city developments, is even now going on, clearly and simply, at the adjacent smaller Śiva Temple town, a mile or so eastward. Outside the triple temple walls, runs the Car-street, with houses of its caste-community. A great wall, with four Gopuras, encloses the whole; and a secondary street surrounds this fourth wall, and is thus obviously included within the temple system, and so far sharing its sanctity. Here then is plainly a second Srirangam, and still in progress.