[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.s2.41 # Town Planning in Ancient India c12.s2.41 Town Planning in Ancient India c12.s2.41 - **Language:** English ### [c12.s2.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.s2.41) In the Sthānīya and the other three, the temple of Viṣṇu should respectively be erected on the plots presided over by Mitra, Varuṇa, Vivasvān, and Mahendra. The plots of Indra and Indrajaya, Rudra and Rudrajaya, or Āpa and Āpavatsa, Īśāna and Jayanta, should be alloted for the shrines to Īśa facing away from the village. The Buddhist temple should be established on the plot of Vāyu and the monastery of the Jainas should be erected on the south-west plot of Nirṛti. There should be four gates on the four sides and the temple to Bhairava should be raised beside them. The temple of Durgā and Ganapati should be established in the four directions or in the four intermediate directions, while the six-faced God should be located in the plot belonging to Sugrīva; the temple of the fever-god in that of Agni or Puṣā; the temple of Bhāratī (Goddess of Learning) in the plot consecrated to Āditya; the temple of Bhūteśa (the Lord of Beings) in the plot belonging to Sauraka or Mukhya. The temples of Viṣṇu and Rudra may be suitably distributed. Human habitations should be laid out round about these divine edifices. The outermost road is lined with a single row of houses, while the other streets have a double row of houses. The above is the list of the internal divinities, while there is no fixed number of the external ones. The phallic emblem of Pāśupata may be set up within the village and, according to the Vaikhānasa, the remaining phalluses too may be established within it. The temple of Chāmuṇḍā is to be placed away to the north or the east of the village, facing the north. Without the village, to its east, north, west or south-west, the maṇḍapam of Senālokanāyaka (?) is to be established. - [Previous: c12.s2.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.s2.40) - [Next: c12.s2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.s2.42) - [Up: c12.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.s2.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.s2.41) · Pramāṇa