Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c52.7
Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c52.7
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The point to which attention is drawn is that, generally speaking these details of fortification in these texts give an impression that the towns of old were militarily planned, and the civic art of those days, in this field of architecture, was subservient to military requirements or the defensive character of the capital cities of those days. The fact, however is, that in the past in India as well as in Europe (cf. Greek or Roman towns, e. g. Florance and Sparta) ramparts and trenches constituted an integral part of town planning. To quote B. B. Dutta, “They formed the *sine qua non* of Aryan habitation”—T. P. in Ancient India, page 70.