The chapter discusses Daṇḍin’s depiction of his contemporary cities with their aristocracy and rich merchants, seductresses and police chiefs, assassinations and executions, and festivals and famines through the prism of the contemporary or near-contemporary literary and archaeological sources. Despite the focus on Daṇḍin’s articulation of the urban space, the chapter highlights how the text portrays India’s cultural unity, envisioning a model city as Pāṭaliputra, the once-glorious Magadhan city that by Daṇḍin’s time had lost its past glory. The lifestyles in other cities are portrayed as deviations from the model urban lifestyle, though some similarities continued as quintessential elements of urbanity. The chapter underscores the culture of kāma as integral to the idea of urbanity. Daṇḍin’s consciousness about this running theme is made clear by the frequent discourses on the comparative merits of the three objectives of life: dharma, artha, and kāma, with special care for the third.