[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) › c21.57 # Town Planning in Ancient India c21.57 Town Planning in Ancient India c21.57 - **Language:** English ### [c21.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c21.57) Takshaka, 3, 168. Tanks, 30, 45-6, 261, 298 ; equable distribution of, 159, 204, 267-8 ; importance of, 289. Taxila, 297 ; site of, 27 ; groups of cities in, 40. Temples, 137 ; growth of towns from, 20, 29, 30, 31, 190, 193, 245-6, 316 ; plan of, 32 ; supplementary, 33 ; reconstruction of a new city round the old, 179 ; distribution of, 233-4 ; details about, 263-4 ; appertaining to confraternities, 294-5. Temple-city, 24, 29 ; gradual evolution of, 31, 189-93, 286-7. Towers, 85, 99, 193, 275 ; square shape of, 88 ; number of storeys of, 96. Town halls, (Sabha-sthana or sabha), 266 ; distribution of, 225. Town-planning, the orthodox texts on, 1, 2, 3 ; antiquity of, 3-10 ; in the Vedic Age, 5, 6, 8 ; high level of Indian, 11 ; diffusion, among common people, of the knowledge of, 11-2. scope of, 15 ; argument and various sub-heads of, 15, 16. Towns, similarity, to village-plans, of the plan of, 33 ; sites of, 27 ; - [Previous: c21.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c21.56) - [Next: c21.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c21.58) - [Up: c21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c21) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c21.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c21.57) · Pramāṇa