[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) › c18.3 # Town Planning in Ancient India c18.3 Town Planning in Ancient India c18.3 - **Language:** English ### [c18.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c18.3) In support of the above theory, I give below a description of śivira or camp and also of skandhāvāra, i.e., an encampment in the neighbourhood of the town about to be beseiged. The 103rd chapter of Śrī Kṛṣṇajanmakhaṇḍa in the Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa deals with the following characteristics of a śivira or camp: “Camps have ditches with a girth of high walls furnished with twelve gates surmounted by lion-arches the doors of which exhibit variegated and fascinating painting and workmanship. No forbidden trees should be allowed to grow within them, while they should be rich with those trees which civic traditions have made them famous.”¹ The chapter then proceeds with the enumeration of the suitable or unsuitable trees and creepers in the encampment, deals with water supply and other food-resources, treats of domestic architecture, the height of walls both of the camp as well as of a citizen’s home, and the depth of the surrounding ditches. - [Previous: c18.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c18.2) - [Next: c18.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c18.4) - [Up: c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c18) ## Linked texts (1) - [Brahmavaivartapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahmavaivarta) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c18.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c18.3) · Pramāṇa