[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c12.42 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.42 The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.42 - **Language:** English ### [c12.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.42) ⁴ K. Rangachari, \*IHQ\* IV, 1928, pp. 102-3: according to the \*Silpaśāstras\*, if a city be square with four gates at north, east, south, west, the middle part must be a square with a temple at each corner and four roads connecting the four temples—a very different matter. (For his sources (one unpublished) see \*IHQ\* III, 1927, p. 813; the earliest \*Silpaśāstras\* are supposed to be fifth or sixth century A.D., \*i.e.\* Gupta period.) For the normal square in the middle of the city, containing the temples, palace, and ancillary buildings, with four broad streets demarcating it, (compare \*e.g.\* the Parthian square at Hatra), see also B. B. Dutt, \*Town Planning in Ancient India\* 1925 pp. 258-64. One of these late writers, Mānasāra, is said to refer to towns with two large streets crossing each other at right angles in the centre (Dutt p. 124); but none such is known, and it might be a Greek or Roman echo; all these writers deal only with \*theory\*. The usual belief (Rangachari, \*IHQ\* III p. 824) is that in \*fact\* Indian towns grew up haphazard, like Delos. - [Previous: c12.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.41) - [Next: c12.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.43) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.42) · Pramāṇa