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Town Planning in Ancient India

1925

The Tamil poets' enthusiasm over the elaborate descriptions of their cities historical and architectural proves that they were conscious of their magnificence.' The spirit which animated the authors of the Purdnas to hyperbolise the dimensions overcolour the grandeur and brilliancy to outdecorate the ornate and florid decorations to eulogise the lions of their cities and the actions of their [...] From the Mftnasdra we learn that in the ceremony of the plough and in the woship of the patron deities the master-builders hiself presented the offerings but hired' Siidras for the ploughing of the ground. [...] The hiring of the Siidras clearly proves that he at least belonged to a higher caste than the Sildras ; the personal presentation of the offerings invocation and worship of the deity without the aid of the sacerdotal class testifies to nobility of his lineage in former times. [...] the ' para3 ' of the Ghoses the pass' of the Dattas of the Banerjees or Mukherjees of a modern complex village which are genealogically derived from the same patriarch are nothing short of a village-unit. [...] The fine alleys that lead to the temple form the prototypes of the main crossways (rajamargl h) of the village or the city ; the spcious corridors and paths encompassing the temple constitute the counterparts of the streets routed the royal castle ; while the girdle of wall and the pradakshina ' path or the path of circumambultion is the Mangalabitlai ' or the boulevard going round the city.
urban studies
Pages
411
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144288
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxxii Binode Dutt view
Chapter I. Introductory
1-17 Binode Dutt view
Chapter II. The Origin and Growth of Indian Cities
18-43 Binode Dutt view
Chapter III. Preliminaries to City-Foundation Survey of the City
44-69 Binode Dutt view
Chapter IV. On Boundaries and Approaches
70-108 Binode Dutt view
Chapter V. Streets and their Planning
109-141 Binode Dutt view
Chapter VI. Site-Planning and Folk-Planning
142-164 Binode Dutt view
Chapter VII. Improvement and Expansion of Towns
165-194 Binode Dutt view
Chapter VIII. The Village
195-246 Binode Dutt view
Chapter IX. Of Buildings and Building Bye-Laws
247-257 Binode Dutt view
Chapter X. Of Centres and Enclosed Places
258-269 Binode Dutt view
Chapter XI. Individuality of Indo-Aryan Towns
270-298 Binode Dutt view
Chapter XII. City as the Expression of Civic Life Interpretation of Civic Architecture: Cultural and Socio-Political
299-320 Binode Dutt view
Appendices
321-352 Binode Dutt view
Bibliography
353-355 Binode Dutt view
Index
356-379 Binode Dutt view

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