Jaipur lies at a distance of about 200 miles from Delhi, 150 miles from Agra and 84 miles from

Ajmer. located amidst the Aravali hill.

THE TOWN OF JAIPUR IS, IN FACT, BUILT IN THE FORM OF A EIGHT-PART
MANDALA KNOWN AS THE ‘PITHAPADA’.NINE SIGNIFIES THE 9 PLANETS OF THE
ANCIENT ASTROLOGICAL ZODIAC.
IT IS ALSO KNOWN THAT SAWAI JAI SINGH WAS A GREAT ASTRONOMER AND A
TOWN PLANNER, AND HENCE THE ‘PITHAPADA’.ALSO, THE COMMERCIAL SHOPS
ARE DESIGNED IN MULTIPLES OF NINE(27), HAVING ONE CROSS STREET FOR A
PLANET
RAJA JAISINGH PLANNED THE CITY KEEPING IN MIND VASTU SHASTRA.
CITY WAS DIVIDED INTO 9 SQUARES. OCCURRENCE OF A HILLSIDE
CHANGED.THE PLACEMENT OF ONE OF THE SQUARES.THE CENTRAL SQUARE
COMPRISE OF THE PALACE.

It is a model of town planning the first planned city in India. It is based on Hindu systems of
town planning and followed the principles prescribed in the Shilpa-shastra, an ancient Indian
treatise on architecture .according to this shastra the site should be divided into grids or
mandalas ranging from 2x 2 to 10 x 10. Planned according to the Prastara type of layout,
which gives prominence to the cardinal directions. Thus plan of jaipur is a grid of 3x3 with
gridlines being the city’s main streets.