[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) › c9.4 # Town Planning in Ancient India c9.4 Town Planning in Ancient India c9.4 - **Language:** English ### [c9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.4) It is difficult to say with any degree of certainty whether the town-planners of India had any idea of the importance of light and air in street-planning and orientated their streets accordingly, they having always enjoined the setting of streets to the four cardinal directions of the heavens. All the Smṛti Śāstras however lay down: "The purity of streets is due to wind and light of the sun and the moon."¹ - [Previous: c9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.3) - [Next: c9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.5) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9) ## Linked texts (1) - [Viṣṇusaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.pancaratra.visnusamhita) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.4) · Pramāṇa