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part with five or three concentric walls. The palace is to be ornamented with all artistic features and either fortified or well guarded by ramparts and soldiers. Streets with double rows 32 in number are planned within Prākāras or enclosures. The principal thoroughfare is double or triple the width of streets. The situation of the several constructions in the city is ordered as in other cities.
Th, fifteenth type is Girinagara. This is specially constructed as a place of safe resort unapproachable by enemies. The site is the top of a hill, not very high. The hill is surrounded by a deep mote. The city is well protected by ramparts and armed soldiery. Ministers, commanders, soldiers and state officials have their houses in the city, numbering about 2000.
The sixteenth type is the Jalanarara. This is a city in the midst of a lake or in the midst of a big river. It is either fortified or protected by rain parts or a site surrounded by forests is chosen, or in the midst of a lake etc. The king's palace is constructed in the middle as a storeyed building. The streets are formed as in Mandaka grāma either within the city or in a suberb by its side with all the adjuncts of a city like temple, courts etc., and all castes live in the city.
The seventeenth type is Guhā nagara. This city is constructed within a cave, leading upward, downward or horizontally or in intermediate directions. A king's palace is constructed in the city or only an arsenal or a treasury or a cantonment alone is built. Within the site which is made level are planned streets in the East and West ten in number; and in the North and South 20, besides subsidiary streets. In the east is built a temple with a tower. In tho centre are the bazaars, and the courts are in the west, or the city proper is constructed by the side of the cave, tho suburb being easily made accessible to people far and near.
The eighteenth type is Aştamukha nagara. This city is built in a site circular in shape either in the midst of a
| SR No. | 010145 |
| Book Title | Vishwakarma Vastushastram |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Vasudev Shastri, N B Gadre |
| Publisher | S Gopalan Tanjor |
| Publication Year | 1958 |
| Total Pages | 834 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 37 MB |