[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) › c9.57 # Town Planning in Ancient India c9.57 Town Planning in Ancient India c9.57 - **Language:** English ### [c9.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.57) It is not definitely known whether the streets were lined with foot-paths like the streets of a modern town. The word padyā (noticed above), literally meaning foot-fath, seems to have had a different significance and referred to only narrow roads, too narrow for vehicles plying through them. In his commentary on Āpasthambha’s direction about the particular passage to be given to a murderer of a Brāhmaṇ, Horadatta, however, writes, “Some say that his passage lies along one of the two paths that border a large street (rathyā) on both sides.”¹ - [Previous: c9.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.56) - [Next: c9.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.58) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9) ## Linked texts (1) - [Āpastambadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.apastamba) — Āpastamba, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9.57) · Pramāṇa