[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) › c9.3 # Town Planning in Ancient India c9.3 Town Planning in Ancient India c9.3 - **Language:** English ### [c9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.3) We have no direct materials to hand that may inform us whether the town-planning experts of ancient India understood the above principles or not. They lay down clear definite instructions about the alignment of streets and their widths; but so far as the fundamental principles underlying these instructions, or rather injunctions, are concerned, they are very reticent. This omission is in keeping with absence of any discussion of principles relating to any technical subject, peculiar not only to ancient India but to ancient times. As regards the particular topic in question, it may be said, by way of explanation, that the omission was perhaps due to absence of heavy street traffic which the modern town-planner has to take into consideration. We cannot expect the Indo-Aryan civic engineer to envisage the diverse offshoots of social evolution of dark future as reflected in the problems of modern town-planning and to provide for them in anticipation. Howbeit, the combined effect of their wonderfully harmonious and symmetric planning of the high-ways and the sites, of locating the buildings and the folks, has been to lessen and obviate the difficulties with surprising success. - [Previous: c9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.2) - [Next: c9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.4) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.3) · Pramāṇa