Town Planning in Ancient India c8.19

c8.19

⁴ This classification, if it can be called one at all, is not based upon any advantage of natural defence, but on their situation and distribution with regard to a whole kingdom or a large capital which is defended by these fastnesses lying in its outskirts. Thus the ‘nigama’ is a fort lying some furlongs away from the main town defending the entrance on the principal road leading to the latter.