Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s3.68

c4.s3.68

compartments called *Divya* and *Mánushya* three or four more parallel streets may be made from east to west, with as many cross ones from north to south, forming as it were so many courts or enclosures. Two broad streets run through the middle of the village, from east to west and from north to south, cutting one another in the middle, where there should be erected either “a temple for *Brahma*, or a *mantapa* for general meetings.” At each of the angles of the outermost streets there should be a gateway ornamented with arches and the like. This village is of two sorts, which are also called the one *Mangalam* and the other *Puram*. The former is inhabited only by Brahmans, and the latter by all classes indiscriminately.”