[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) › c5.16 # Town Planning in Ancient India c5.16 Town Planning in Ancient India c5.16 - **Language:** English ### [c5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5.16) the Indian science of town-planning; for, geometry as a science was an Indo-Aryan invention and had its origin in the complicated system of Vedic sacrifices in which it became necessary to resolve geometrical problems such as constructing a circle equal in area to a square or vice versa. The laying out of the Indo-Aryan village is treated in the Śilpa Śāstras as the preparation of scarificial ground. I have therefore considered it justifiable to refer it historically to the Vedic period and to connect it with the camp or fortified settlement of the early Aryan invaders. There are direct references to it in Buddha’s teaching.”¹ - [Previous: c5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5.15) - [Next: c5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5.17) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5.16) · Pramāṇa