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# Town Planning in Ancient India c21.18

Town Planning in Ancient India c21.18

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### [c21.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c21.18)

Forts, general characteristics of, 70-101 ; Kauṭilya’s classification of, 72-3 ; Bhoja’s classification of, 73-4 ; Mānasāra’s classification of, 74 ; various types of, 75-82 ; construction of the walls of, 84-90 ; trees planted in rows without the walls of, 91 ; features of the ditches about, 91-4 ; bridges over the ditches of, 94-5 ; gopuras of, 95-101 ; shapes of, 101-5 ; site-planning and folk-planning within, 149-51 ; general description of, 275-7. Fruit-stalls, 154.

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