[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) › c5.5 # Town Planning in Ancient India c5.5 Town Planning in Ancient India c5.5 - **Language:** English ### [c5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5.5) treated in separate treatises called Vāstu Śāstras. Thus the domain of Vāstu Vidyā narrowed down, and the existing Vāstu Śāstras seldom digress into discussions, except in a casual and sporadic way, on other topics contemplated in the definition. These and other cognate technics form the province of the generic subject, Śilpa Śāstra, which also has to undergo a corresponding restriction in application and significance. But, in the present work, our immediate object being a dissertation on town-planning, we are called upon only to deal with what is technically designated above as ‘dharā’ (ground) and incidentally with ‘harmya’ (building). - [Previous: c5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5.4) - [Next: c5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5.6) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5.5) · Pramāṇa