[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) › c7.11 # Town Planning in Ancient India c7.11 Town Planning in Ancient India c7.11 - **Language:** English ### [c7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c7.11) The Mānasāra directs the examination of the site as its fitness from its colour, smell, taste, shape, direction, sound, and touch. The ground should be level and smooth with a declivity towards the east, producing a hard sound, with a stream running from left to right, of an agreeable odour, containing a great quantity of soil, producing water when dug to the depth of a man with his arm raised above his head, and situated in a climate of moderate temperature. The ground possessed of qualities directly opposed to those mentioned above is the worst, and that which has a mixed nature is middling.”² - [Previous: c7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c7.10) - [Next: c7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c7.12) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c7) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.silpa.dravida.manasara) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c7.11) · Pramāṇa