Town Planning in Ancient India c12.9

c12.9

"Villages consisting each of not less than a hundred families and not more than five hundred families of agricultural people of Śūdra caste, with boundaries extending as far as a kroś (2250 yds.) or two and capable of protecting each other shall be formed. Boundaries shall be denoted by a river, a mountain, forests, bulbous plants (gṛshti), caves, artificial buildings (setubandha)¹ or by trees such as śālmalī (silk cotton tree), śamī (acacia suma), and kshīra vṛksha milky trees).”¹