Town Planning in Ancient India c13.15

c13.15

(4) The imperial palaces should be raised to eleven storeys; the buildings of Brāhmaṇs to nine storeys; those of the ordinary kings to seven storeys; the buildings of the provincial satraps (sāmanta) to five storeys; Vaiśyas and the soldier class (Kshatriyas ?) should have four-storeyed buildings and Śūdras should have their houses one to three storeys high.¹ Mānasāra would determine the storeys in a different way and according to him the lower classes must on no account construct houses of more than a single storey. This assortment of the number of storeys under the different schools should not be disturbed.² The Vṛhat Samhitā lays down that no building should be more than hundred cubits high.³