[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) › c15.51 # Town Planning in Ancient India c15.51 Town Planning in Ancient India c15.51 - **Language:** English ### [c15.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.51) "Returning then to the city of Vijayanagara, you must know that from it to the new city (the reference here is to Nagalpur, a league off from the main capital) goes a street as wide as a place of tourney, with both sides lined throughout with rows of houses and shops where they sell every thing and all along this road are many trees that the king commanded to be planted, so as to afford shade to those that pass along. On this road he commanded to be erected a very beautiful temple of stone and there are other pagodas that the captains and the great lords caused to be erected. - [Previous: c15.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.50) - [Next: c15.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.52) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15) ## Linked texts (1) - [Nāgalāpura](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.nagalapura) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.51) · Pramāṇa