The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c7.40

c7.40

sects, *e.g.* Brahmans of four different schools, in which case the village had the affix *-mangalam*, or people of the four *varnas*, when the affix was *-puram*.¹ The arrangement of the different social grades is shown by the relative depth of shading in the plan; the highest class, in the centre of the village, occupying the four blocks which are left unshaded.