Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c53.73

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This leads us to the surmise that these buildings were planned under a systematic code of town-planning and presented a facade both symmetrical and pleasant-looking. “The Triśāla and the Dviśāla can be so adjusted as to accommodate an open space in their front along the road which can be laid out as a flower garden. Thus if all the houses on one or both sides of street recede in the middle as a Triśālā or a Dviśālā contemplates, we get gardens by the roadside. We have no definite materials at hand to inter that such gardens existed in ancient India. Certainly there were open spaces; and the branching blocks of the buildings abutting on the streets relieve the monotony of a wall-like front of the thick-set structures or of the long rows of gardens that otherwise would have been the result (T. P. In Ancient India page 250).