[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) › c15.7 # Town Planning in Ancient India c15.7 Town Planning in Ancient India c15.7 - **Language:** English ### [c15.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.7) (1) Nagara :²—A nagara or an ordinary town has four gates in the four cardinal quarters surmounted by pyramidal towers. It is full of thick-set buildings; it is a place of brisk traffic, sale and purchase of merchandise, congested with all classes and ranks of people. Artisans settled there busily ply their tools. The place is sanctified by shrines dedicated to all deities, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva and the like. In other words it is a place of inland trade and the headquarter of the district. I need hardly add that for military defence, the towns were generally well fortified. Their dimensions, according to Mānasāra, vary from 100 × 200 daṇḍas upwards. - [Previous: c15.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.6) - [Next: c15.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.8) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.silpa.dravida.manasara) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15.7) · Pramāṇa