Town Planning in Ancient India c12.s2.36

c12.s2.36

portional, and the ground should be divided into the mystic figure Paramaśāyika. Streets in it should be planted up to the extremity of the Paiśācha round. The streets should be planted in conformity with the figure Swastika. There should be two streets passing through the centre of the village, one running from west to east and the other cross-street running from south to north cutting the former in the middle and the rest of the highways should emanate from one or other of the four branches of these two cross-roads. The (northern-most) easterly street runs from the north to the north-east; the eastern-most southerly street beginning from the east terminates in the south-east; the southern-most westerly street starting from the south abut on the south-west; the western-most northerly street setting out from the west ends in the north-west. The above four streets starting from the extremities of the four (i.e., two) cross-roads are directed clock-wise round the village and together with the latter, from the figure Swastika by four plough-like (┌-like) streets each bent respectively at right angles at the four cardinal points of the compass; thus each of these plough-shaped streets has two extremities one at the farthest point of the cross-road and another at the corner and each of them has two openings one on the sides and the other at the angular points.