Town Planning in Ancient India c12.s2.40

c12.s2.40

Full of various classes of people the Swastika is fit for habitation of kings and should be adopted in the Sthānīya (or local fastness or town). The royal palace may be erected in the four cardinal directions or at the corners or in the centre. When erected in the four cardinal quarters, it should be placed, without the central plot presided over by Brahmā, at the four plots, Aryyamā and others. There seems to be a classification of this type of village under different denominations, to wit, Āgata, Samgraha, Vijaya, and Sthānīya, according to the method of allocation of the royal palace. In the Āgata the palace may be situated on the plot belonging to Varuṇa, Āditya or Indrarāja; in the Saṃgrāma, it may be located on the plot consecrated either to Yama or Soma; in the Vijaya, it may be set up on the plot held sacred to either Soma or Vivasvān; in the Sthānīya, it may be assigned a site in the plot belonging to either Mitra, Varuṇa or Aryyamā.