[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) › c12.26 # Town Planning in Ancient India c12.26 Town Planning in Ancient India c12.26 - **Language:** English ### [c12.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.26) The Mayamata sets forth the dimensions of the villages in two ways. According to their peripheral measurements, villages are of five kinds : the smallest village is twenty thousand daṇḍas in circumference and the contour of the biggest measures 1,00,000 daṇḍas; the perimeter of any other intermediate village can be calculated out by adding 20,000 daṇḍas to that of the preceding one. One residential block, generally inhabited by kinsmen (kutumva-bhūmi), measures one-twentieth of the whole village. Lengths of villages again admit of forty varieties ranging from 500 to 20,000 daṇḍas by a common difference of 500 daṇḍas. The breadth may be 300, 500, 700, 900, 1000, 1500, or 2000 daṇḍas.¹ Mānasāra also gives several such varieties of measurements. I need hardly add here that these were rather optional; but their wide range would but give a large scope for choice. - [Previous: c12.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.25) - [Next: c12.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.27) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12) ## Linked texts (2) - [Mānasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.silpa.dravida.manasara) — Sanskrit - [Mayamata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.silpa.dravida.mayamata) — Maya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.26) · Pramāṇa