Town Planning in Ancient India c21.54

c21.54

duties of, 60-2 ; functions and qualifications of, 167-8. Streets, 89 ; varieties and planning of, 109-41 ; provision for light and air in, 110-1 ; general orientation of, 118 ; width of streets commensurate with the volume of traffic, 111 ; width of 112-6 ; planning of, 117-8 ; cities classified according to the number and direction of the principal, 119-23 ; names of the various kinds of, 124-8 ; radiating, diagonal or oblique, 129-32, 227, 277 ; tortuous, 131 ; crooked, 328 ; junctions of, 130, 133-6 ; doors of, 107, 138 ; shopping stalls along, 138 ; location of some important public buildings in the principal, 161, 173 ; social importance of the Indian, 305 : elevation, in the middle, of, 139 ; pavement or macadamization of, 139 ; walls along, 140 ; in the improved city of Dvārakā, the number of the principal, 171-2 ; lined along with trees, 186 0 ; rows of houses arranged along, 208, 231, 293, 244 ; in Madurā, the plan of, 325 ; different professions allocated to different, 330. Subhadra, a town-plan, 121. Subterranean rooms, 301. Sub-town, 184. Suburbs, 181, 186, 187, 288. Supplementary faubourg, 184. Survey, of the ground and situation, 67-9. of the city, 179, 326-7. Sūtragrahī, 3. rank and qualifications of, 168.