[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) › c16.20 # Town Planning in Ancient India c16.20 Town Planning in Ancient India c16.20 - **Language:** English ### [c16.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16.20) The above in a way is indicative of idealisation or deification of the abode. "The ground on which a city stands is in truth a great hearth-place of human love, a veritable altar of spiritual fire." As for instances of idealising the abode, "What of Benares, built about the Vedic hearth, that to-day is the golden grating of Biśweśwar? What of Allahabad with her thousands of pilgrims bathing in the sacred waters of the Gaṅgā-Jamunā? Kālikā—Kāṅgrā Rānī, Queen of the Battlements? What of Calcutta, where appears Nakuleśwar, as guardian of the ghat of Kālī? From end to end of the peopled earth, we shall find wherever we look, that man makes his home of a surpassing sanctity to himself and others, and the divine mingles with the domestic fire on every hearth."¹ - [Previous: c16.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16.19) - [Next: c16.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16.21) - [Up: c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16.20) · Pramāṇa