Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s3.56

c4.s3.56

“ The village called *dandáca* is quadrangular, and surrounded by a square wall. It consists of from one to five parallel streets, running in one direction, generally from east to west, and of two more streets forming right angles at both the extremities of the five parallel streets, and also of a third crossing the middle of them. The breadth of the streets is from one to five *dandás*, and the middlemost may be made broader than the rest. The streets at the extremities or near the walls have a single row of houses; the centre streets a double row, or one on each side. The space occupied by each house should be from three to five *dandás* broad, and from two to four *dandás* long. There should be four large gates, one on each side of the enclosing wall of the village, and as many smaller ones at the several angles. In the part presided over by *Varuna* or *Maytra*, should be erected a temple for *Vishnu*; and in that presided over by *Adita*, at the north-east angle, one dedicated to *Siva*; a shrine, for *Chamunda*,[^asterisk] should be built near the north gate without the wall. There should be two tanks dagger or reservoirs, one towards the south-west and the other towards the north-east. This village