Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s3.50

c4.s3.50

"The extent of villages or towns is declared to admit of forty varieties, consisting of from five hundred to twenty thousand *dandás* square, each sort exceeding the one immediately below it by five hundred *dandás*. The whole area of a village, with the lands thereunto belonging, being divided into twenty equal parts, one is assigned for the occupation of Brahmans, six or more for that of the three other classes, and the remainder for agriculture."