Town Planning in Ancient India c12.s4.9

c12.s4.9

The descriptions of the last seven villages vouchsafed to us in the Mayamata or in the Kāmikāgama are very meagre, but one feature to be marked in all of them is that the number of northerly streets in all the types far exceed that of the easterly streets. This means that the villages were elongated east to west and east-to-west streets are longer so that winds could not blow up clouds of dust, while the buildings were open to free ventilation which in India generally runs from north to south or south to north.