Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c8.s1.t1.12

c8.s1.t1.12

Pisches and Geldner however, think that there were towns with wooden walls and ditches and like the Indian town of Pātaliputra known to Magesthenes and the Pali texts. This is possible, but hardly susceptible of proof and it is not without significance that the word 'Nagar' is of late occurrence. On the whole, it is hardly likely that in the early Vedic times city life was much developed. In the Epic, accordingly to Hopkins, there are found the 'Nagara', city', Grām 'village, Ghoṣa. Vedic literature hardly seems to go beyond the village, no doubt with modifications in its later period.