[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) › c19.3 # Town Planning in Ancient India c19.3 Town Planning in Ancient India c19.3 - **Language:** English ### [c19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c19.3) ¹ The principal directions regarding this distribution have already been noted. The details, actually some prohibitory injunctions, will interest none but the academic antiquarian. I have considerable doubt if these restrictive regulations were actually followed by the Indian civic architect at all. Certainly the modern town-planner has nothing to do with them. The grounds adduced for these prohibitions are like so many dogmatic assertions savouring more of superstition than of reason, which is a stereotyped characteristic of Indian treatises in such cases. Nevertheless, their description is a necessity to make our investigation complete and exhaustive according to the Indian town-planning code. - [Previous: c19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c19.2) - [Next: c19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c19.4) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c19.3) · Pramāṇa