India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s10.17

c8.s10.17

*THE CITY*—We may thus picture a well laid-out city to have been equipped with a multitude of buildings, both for its defence and for the practical needs of residence and business. The fortification consisted of the moat, parapet wall and gateways, while the civil architecture had its residential buildings, business quarters (*āpaṇa*, III.3.119), intersected by streets (*saṁchara*, III.3.119), royal store-houses (ending in *agāra*, IV.4.70, as *koshṭhāgāra* and *bhāṇḍāgāra*), king's council-hall (*rājasabhā*) and a number of other buildings comprised under the general term *śālā*, e.g. places of dramatic performance (*prekshā*, IV.2.80), dancing, music, concerts and sports (*praharaṇa-krīḍā*), etc. Reference is also made to ferries (*nāvya*, IV.4.91).