[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) › c15.24 # Town Planning in Ancient India c15.24 Town Planning in Ancient India c15.24 - **Language:** English ### [c15.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.24) (6) Kharvaṭa :—Exactly similar to a Kheṭa is the town called Kharvaṭa defended with a girdle of wall. Its walls are not massive enough. It is a town lying in the rāṣṭra or country side.¹ It is from here that the neighbouring town gets its daily supply of foodstuff and other articles of consumption. According to Kauṭilya it is situated in the centre of two hundred villages. The three measures breadth-wise of its three classes respectively are 448, 512 and 576 daṇḍas, the ratio of the lengths to the breadths being the same as in the case of the Kheṭa. It is a town bigger and hence more prominent than the Kheṭa.¹ - [Previous: c15.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.23) - [Next: c15.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.25) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.24) · Pramāṇa