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# Town Planning in Ancient India c7.17

Town Planning in Ancient India c7.17

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### [c7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c7.17)

The foregoing disqualifications of ground, leaving aside all mystic and superstitious interpretations, bespeak impurity, insanitation, sterility, insolidity, and hollowness, and irregularity of sites and plots which would effect the shape of buildings and planting of rectilinear streets and the stability of structures erected on them.¹

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