[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) › c9.33 # Town Planning in Ancient India c9.33 Town Planning in Ancient India c9.33 - **Language:** English ### [c9.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.33) rows of houses. If the number of similarly directed streets be five and five and there be many building plots, the name of the town is Bhadramukham. Another type is Bhadrakalyāṇam; the number of streets in it facing east and also of those facing north is six, dividing it into many building plots. The plan is known as Mahābhadram, if the number of such streets be seven and the rest as before. The town plan of Subhadra has eight streets facing the east and eight more transverse to them. The lanes which divide the building plots of this town-plan are furnished with gates and cross-bars. The Jayāṅga is the name of the town containing the imperial head-quarters. This town has a net-work of nine streets lying east to west with nine others transverse to them. It has four main gates in the four cardinal directions and four other subsidiary gates in the four corners. The lanes between the building plots are provided with portals which open out on the main streets. The experts designate the town as Vijaya in case it is divided into many building plots by lanes fitted up with gates and cross-bars to bolt them with. The number of main streets in it is ten versus ten. The imperial castle is installed in the town. Another town called Sarvatobhadra has eleven streets crossed by another set of eleven. The royal mansions are situated on any site barring the central quarters dedicated to Brahmā. In the front of the royal castle is a vast courtyard where is situated the harem. The rest should be planted according to necessity and exigencies of the situation. Its¹ street running towards the east (tat-prāg-diggata-mārga) is called Rājavīthī. The buildings of the rich range on both sides of it. Adjoining them are the quarters of the merchants. To their south are settled the weavers and to their north are established the wheel-wrights (chakriṇaḥ, carriage-drivers ?). In their neighbourhood are quartered kindred professions. The rest is as before.”² In fact, the above are varieties of street-planning in towns, but their difference consists in the number of principal streets and incidentally in the allocation of sites and arrangement of houses. - [Previous: c9.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.32) - [Next: c9.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.34) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9) ## Linked texts (1) - [Subhadrā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.natya.subhadra) — Hastimalla, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.33) · Pramāṇa