Town Planning in Ancient India c21.44

c21.44

Pārikha, a kind of fort, 77-8 ; its place in order of merit, 84. Parks, 189, 249, 261, 329. Pārvata, a mountain-fort, 72. Pāṭaliputra, modern Patna, 129 ; an aggregation of villages, 38, 189 ; fortified by walls, 85, 86 ; timber-walls of, 90-1 ; rivers flowing into the ditches of, 94 ; site-planning in, 152 ; description of, 323-4. Patriarchism, 305. Paṭṭam, the crossing of highways, 20. Paṭṭanam, an emporium, 20 ; Mayamata's definition of, 26 ; preponderance of Vaiśyas (i.e., merchant class) in, 237. Pavilion, location of, 211, 258. Pilgrim's road, 140-1. Place, 258-69 ; arrangement, in Indian cities, of, 259, 267, 289. Platforms, 330 ; public, 330. Poona, 94. Pradakshiṇa-patha the path of circumambulation, the boulevard, 32, 33, 124, 135. Prākāra, generally it means a wall, 87 ; technically, the fourth court of a temple, 263. Prakīrṇaka, a village-plan, 205, 242. Prāntara, technically a kind of fort, 72, 75. Prapā, a public shed for free distribution of drinking water, 268. Prastara, a street-plan, 119, 123 ; elaboration of, 234-7. Pratiprākāra, a supplementary wall, 88. Processional Street, 326 ; the houses allocated in, 156. Promenade, 249. Public baths, 246, 327. Public buildings, 130 ;