Town Planning in Ancient India c9.86

c9.86

It may not be out of place in this chapter to note that, like the walls ranging on both sides of the streets of the city, sometimes the streets outside the city had their own walls. In the palace-city of Rājagṛha, it is said that the roads which traversed the plain country beyond the city seem to have been protected by walls on either sides. In 1812, Buchanan was able to trace "the foundations of a double wall leading to the gap," all the way from the south gate to new Rājagṛha to the entrance of the new valley. One such road was the pilgrim's road from Sonagiri to the Son Bhāṇdār cave which now passes through one gap in the south wall which probably represented a south-east gate leading towards Jithian.¹