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When purchasing a property, it is a good idea to stand on
the land and feel its vibration for a few moments. Trust
your feelings. If you feel positive about it, consider
buying the land. If not, it is probably not good for you. It
is best to buy land where happy and successful people have
lived. A house sold by a person in distress or who is
impoverished, should be purchased only with caution. A
dilapidated or haunted house should not be purchased at all.
The land should be
cultivatable and should smell good. It is best not to build
on nonarable land. Land that contains many rocks, anthills,
many worms, bones, broken pottery, sludge, and thorny trees
should not be purchased. If the center of the land is humped
like the shell of a turtle, it should not be purchased.
The color of the soil
should also be considered. White soil is good for brahmans
(priests, teachers, scientists, or intellectuals), red for
ksatriyas (rulers, soldiers, or administrators), yellow for
vaisyas (businessmen, farmers or bankers), and black for
sudras (laborers, artisans, craftsmen, or servants).
When you assess the soil, do not just make a surface check,
but also dig about 4m (12 ft) down.
If the soil is black up to
1m (3 ft) down and white or red below that, the land can be
purchased.
According to Vastu Shastra,
black and clayey soil is not good for building. If the soil
is crumbly rock, money can easily be gotten. Yellow soil is
good for businessmen.
Another test of land
quality is to dig a knee-deep hole (2/3m or 2'x2'x2') and
then refill it. If after filling the hole you have some soil
left over, the land is good. If there is no soil left after
filling the hole, the land is average. If the returned soil
does not even fill the hole, this is not a good sign. Such
land should not be purchased. This shows the soil’s
natural moisture and aeration.Again dig the same sized hole.
This time, fill it with water. If it takes more than an hour
for the water to be absorbed, this is a good sign. If there
are many cracks in the hole after the water has been
absorbed, the construction may cost more than you expect.
This is a percolation test done even in the U.S. to test for
clay deposits. The cracks indicate clay soil, which is not
best for water drainage and can cause foundation problems,
etc. Also, wastes are not carried away properly, which can
bring disease.
Do not purchase land that
has been used as a crematorium, cemetery, or a samadhi (tomb
for a holy person). The land should not be purchased if in
the recent past someone has committed suicide on it, or if
there have been several deaths over the period of a couple
of months.
It is usually best not to
purchase land next to a bridge. If the bridge is on the
north or east sides, it definitely should not be purchased.
If it is on the south or west sides, that is a safer
purchase.
It is also usually best
not to purchase land that shares a well with another
property. The land can be purchased, however, if the water
supply is a common well on the north, east, or northeast
side.
A plot of land situated on a hill is also not a good
purchase in most cases. It is better to purchase level
ground. If the land to be purchased is on the side of a
hill, however, and the land slopes down toward the north or
east, that is all right. If the land slopes to the west, do
not purchase it.
After choosing and
purchasing land, plants should be grown on the land. Also,
if possible, keep a cow and her calf on the land for a while
to make it more auspicious. 
The direction that the front of a property faces is
important. The best shapes for plots of land are square or
rectangular, facing squarely on the four cardinal
directions. A land tilt of 20 degrees, off square by 20
degrees, is acceptable. If the plot is rectangular, it is
better that the longer sides run north to south rather than
west to east.
If the plot of land does
not squarely face the four cardinal directions, and if the
road does not run in one of the four cardinal directions,
the house should be built facing the four directions The
house should be square or rectangular, and the faces of the
building should each be toward a cardinal direction, and not
built facing the road.
It is not good to purchase
a piece of land squeezed between two larger pieces of land
as such land will bring its owner poverty.
The northeast side of the
land should be the lowest side. If the northeast side is at
a higher elevation than other sides of the property, you can
dig soil from that one side and use it to build up the other
parts. The land should either slope down toward the north or
east, but not toward the west or south. Land sloping north
brings riches, sloping east brings good fortune, sloping
south brings ruin, and sloping west brings financial loss.
It is auspicious if tall
buildings or hills do not obstruct the north, northeast, and
east sides of the land. Do not purchase land with such
obstructions to those sides because the sun’s rays will be
blocked.Having those same obstructions blocking the west or
south sides, however, bring health and wealth—light coming
from the southwest is not beneficial. The sun’s rays
traveling westward are considered harmful. Thus such
obstructions block out harmful rays.For the same reason, a
water source located on the southwest side of a building
will cause the owner misery. Similarly, there should be a
minimum number of doors and windows set into the southwest
side of a building; the majority of windows should be set in
the northeast side.
The boundary walls around a property should be higher in the
west and south and lower in the north and east.
It is auspicious if the
plot has a river or a stream flowing through it on the
northeast, or if there is a lake on the same side. It is not
auspicious if there is an electrical power supply or large
electric pole on the northeast side of the plot. A telephone
pole is not negative in the northeast, however.
There should not be any valley, a depression in the land, or
large pit around the land.
Construction should not stop once it begins. Workers should
not be unnecessarily pushed to speed up their work; work for
the day should stop at sunset. No construction should be
done at night. A qualified engineer should always oversee
the construction.
Building materials should
be stored in the southwest corner of the property during
construction. The storage area or structure can also be
built in the southeast corner, at least 1m (3 ft) from the
property boundary. The guard should stay in a house in the
southeast corner. Thieves will be a danger if the guard
stays in the northwest corner, and the guard should not stay
in the southwest corner.
Order of construction: the
well, the storage house, and then the boundary wall.
A square piece of land surrounded by roads on four sides is
considered very good. It should be purchased even if at a
high cost. A person who owns this land will become wealthy,
healthy, and happy.
If a road runs alongside
the property and ends at the northeast corner, that is also
very good. If a road ends on any other parts of the
property, however, that plot is usually not good.
A road on the north side
of the property is good, but a road on the south side is not
so good. If there is only one road, it is best if it is
located on the east side. It is not so good if it is located
on the west side.
If there are roads on only
the east and north side, that is good. If there are roads on
the west and north, it is average. Roads on the north, west,
and east—that is, only on these three sides—is not so
good. Roads on the north, south, and west is also not so
good. It is inauspicious if there are three roads only on
the east, south, and west.Land should also not be next to a
T or Y intersection.
There are other aspects of land assessment that should be
considered. The plot should not be within twice the distance
of the height of the house to a public place—a hospital,
factory, temple, church, marriage hall, courthouse,
cemetery, or cremation grounds. There should not be a
laundry place, shoe shop, meat shop, or workshop with loud
machinery opposite the property.The house should be at least
25m (80 ft) from the entrance of a temple. The property’s
gate should not face a temple or church, and the shadow of a
temple or church should not fall on the house.If the public
place is twice the distance of the height of the house away
from the house, it will have no effect.
Only new bricks, wood, and materials should be used when
building a new house. Materials from an old building should
not usually be used to build a new one in case those old
materials repeat negative incidents that occurred in the old
house. There is unhappiness in using old things. If there
are old materials available, better to sell them and use the
money to buy new materials.
Wood from thorny trees
should not be used, as it will have a negative effect.
Materials that have been stored for a long time should also
not be used. Iron grills should only be used when needed.
The best properties are either square or rectangular. If the
plot is not a perfect rectangle, it is best if at least the
southwest and southeast sides of the land are at 90º angles
from one another. The southwest side of the quadrilateral
should definitely not be extended past the southeast side,
even if that means giving away a portion of the plot. Land
that extends past the northeast side of the quadrilateral,
however, brings wealth, happiness, and good name. Land
extending on the northeast side is very good. Extensions on
any other side are inauspicious. Extensions of the northwest
side will cause you to lose money and peace.
If the land is cut in the
corner this is not good. If possible the land to fill in the
missing corner should be purchased. If the land is cut short
on the northeast side it is very bad and is not aspicious;
do not purchase it. It is like a headless body.
Round, oval, and
triangular plots should be avoided. The house should not be
built in the shape of a diamond, with the corner facing
north. L-shaped plots are also inauspicious and should not
be purchased.
It is good if the plot is
narrower at the entrance and wider at its rear, but the
opposite is not good.
It is advised that the first construction project for the
new house is to dig the well. If water is used from this
well for the construction, it is auspicious for the family
who will live in the house. It is best that the well or
water source is on the north or northeast side of the land,
or if water comes from the municipality, it should enter
from the northeast side. If you draw a line from the
southeast corner to the northeast corner, the well should be
to the right or left of the line, not on it.
The well can also be in
the north or east sides of the property. The well should not
be in the northwest or southeast corners, as this is
inauspicious. It is especially inauspicious if the well is
dug in the southwest corner. It is also inauspicious to have
a well in the middle of a house.
Wells should be round.
Ideally, the well water should be exposed to sunlight for
five hours a day. It is not recommended to share wells
between two properties.
The well should be dug
after puja (worship) has been performed on the land at an
astrologically auspicious time. This will insure that the
water will be pure.
The well should be dug
under an auspicious star, such as Rohini, Hasta, Uttara
Bhadrapada, Uttara, etc. It should be dug on an auspicious
day—a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. The well
should be dug during a downward-facing constellation or
star, such as, Krittika, Purva Phalguni, Mula, Bharani,
Ashlesha, Purva Bhadrapada, or Purvashadha.Water departing
from the kitchen and bathroom should flow to the northeast
and leave the house from this side.
The compound wall should be built before the house is
constructed. Construction should begin during an auspicious
constellation, and on a favorable day—a Monday, Wednesday,
Thursday, or Friday. It should also be begun during an
auspicious day of the lunar month—Pratipada, Panchami,
Shashthi, Dashami, Ekadashi, or Purnima. The compound wall
should not be higher than the house, and construction of it
should begin on the southwest side.
The southwest part of the
wall should be higher than the rest of the wall. The walls
on the north and east sides should be 53cm (21 inches)
shorter than on the west and south sides. If this is not
possible, then the north and east sides should be a minimum
of 8cm (3 inches) shorter.
Do not set the gate on the
south side. It is best that there are two gates to the
compound, so evil things entering one gate will exit from
the other.
It is best if the house is built on the southwest section of
the land. Any open space should be to the north and east.
Open space on the west side of the land is not good for the
family’s male members.
It is also good to keep a
tulasi plant in the northeast corner.The electric generators
should be situated on the southeast section of the plot, not
the northeast, which is inauspicious. Loud machinery should
not be placed near the house.
If there is to be a
swimming pool, waterfalls, or fountains, they should be set
to the north, east, or northeast. Gardens, plants, or the
lawns should also be set to the north, east, or northeast.
Plants should be less than 1m (3 ft) in height. Swings
should be to the north or east, and should swing from east
to west.
Outdoor seats should be
placed in the south or west of the open area, and people
should face north or east while sitting.
It is considered
inauspicious to block the entrance to a house, such as with
a tree or telephone pole. If one of these things is more
than twice the distance of the house’s height away, it
will not have any effect.Trash or dirty water should not be
kept near a house’s entrance (or the entrance to a place
of business), and neither should it be kept near the
property’s entrance. An unclean stream or pool of unclean
water should not be located in front of the house.Annexes or
outhouses should not be on the north or east sides of the
house, and they definitely should not touch the eastern or
northern boundary walls.
A garage, building, or
servants’ quarters built separately from the house should
be located to the southeast or northwest of the main house
but should not touch any of the boundary walls. Ideally such
quarters should not touch the southeast corner, but should
be slightly west (without touching the east wall). They
should also not touch the northwest corner but should be
slightly south (without touching the north wall). They
should be established about 1m (3 ft) from the wall.
Cars should be parked facing east or north. A car should
never be parked facing south. If a car is parked facing west
or northwest, the owner will spend a long time traveling.
The parking lot should be
in the northwest corner of the property. It should not be
located to the southwest or northeast. Parking can also be
located in the basement, on the north or east side.
A parking garage should
not be connected to the compound wall or the main building.
The parking garage should
be painted a light color, not a dark color.
The roof of the house should slope towards the northeast and
rainwater should flow to the north, east, or northeast
direction.
Balconies, verandahs, and terraces should ideally be built
on the north, northeast, or east sides of the house, not on
the south or west sides. If a balcony is on the southwest
side of a house, it should be covered and closed.
The floor or roof over a
balcony or terrace should be lower than the floor or roof of
the main building. It is best if the verandah’s roof is
slanted toward the northeast. Tin is a good roofing material
for such structures. The verandah’s corners should not be
rounded, and balconies should not have arches.Flowerpots on
the verandah should be small. No creepers should be planted
on a verandah. The seats on the verandah should be set on
the south or west sides.
Shoes can be removed and
placed on the verandah. They should not be placed to the
northeast.
Furniture, such as sofas, should be placed in the southeast,
south, or west sides of a room. The house’s owner should
sit facing north or east, and his guests should sit facing
west or south.It is best that the northeast corner of each
room in the house be left empty. If furniture must be set in
the northeast corner, it should be set 15cm (six inches)
from the wall.
Do not align doors within
the house. One door should not lead directly into another.
It is best when a student
studies that he face north, northeast, or east. Therefore a
table in a study room should be placed in the south or west
sides of the room. Books should be stored in the southwest
side of the room.
Do not keep money in a
place facing south.
When one prays, he should face either north or east.
Beds should face either
west or south to insure that when a person rises in the
morning, he is facing either north or east. While asleep,
one should place his head to the south, east, or west, not
north. If one’s place of worship is in the bedroom (in the
northeast), one should sleep with his head facing east to
avoid pointing his feet toward the altar.Mirrors should be
placed on the north or east walls, not on the south or west
walls. Do not keep broken mirrors in the house. Clocks
should be placed on the west, north, or east walls. Clothes
should be washed in the southeast corner of the house.
Medicine should be kept in
the northeast corner of the house, and a person should face
northeast while taking it. It is best to nurse those who are
ill in the southwest corner of the house, although the
northwest corner is also good.
Rainwater and wastewater
should leave the house from the northeast side. It should
flow west to east or south to north.
There should be an even
number of columns and beams in the house, not odd.
Doors should generally be
made from a single piece of wood and should open on the left
side.
A television can be placed in the southeast side of a room.
An overhead water tank should be located in the southwest
side of a building.
Stairways should be on the
south, southwest, or west sides of a building.
Certain pictures should
not be hung in a house such as nudes, animals fighting,
captured elephants, hunting scenes, trees without fruits or
flowers, snakes, owls, bats, vultures and pigeons.
The main door of the house should be larger than the other
doors entering the house. The main door should have two
shutters and open to the inside of the building. Teak is a
good material for the entrance door.
It is best that a house
has two entrances. The exit door should be smaller than the
entrance, and it should have only one shutter. If there are
two external doors for the house, they should not be set in
a straight line.
When one enters the house,
there should not be a wall in front of the entrance. There
should be a door that opens to the next room. A shadow
should not fall on the main door. The main door of the house
should not be below ground. Neither should the main door be
in the center of the house, nor in the extreme corners. If
the door is set in the north wall, move it east of center;
if it’s in the east wall, move it north of center. If it
is set in the south wall, it should be moved east of center;
if it is in the west wall, move it south of center. Some
authorities say that if the house’s entrance is in the
west wall. It should be centered.Some Vastu authorities say
that to figure out where to place a main door, divide the
house into nine parts. The door should be in the fourth
section of the house from the left hand side. From the right
side of the house, the entrance is in the sixth division
from the right.
The main door should not
be situated across from the main door of another house. The
entrance doors of two houses should not be exactly opposing
one another. Neither should two houses share a common
entrance.
If the entrance of the
house is to the south, there should not be a balcony or
verandah in front of the door.
It is good to set gates to
both the property and the entrance to the house on the north
or east sides. It is also all right to have the main door on
the west wall. It is not advised to have the main entrance
on the south side.
It is considered
auspicious if the entrance to the property and the main door
of the house are on the same side. It is not considered good
if the main door to the house is on the opposite side to the
entrance of the property.
There should not be an
underground tank, septic tank, or canal under the main
entrance. There should not be any abandoned, wrecked
buildings in front of the main entrance.
It is good to decorate a
house’s entrance with pictures or statues of Laksmi,
Ganesh or Kuvera and auspicious signs such as OM or the
Swastika. Inauspious pictures should not be on the door.
Doors should have thresholds. Shoes should not be kept in
front of the door, but to the side.The door should not be
slanted, sliding, or circular.
The overhead water tank should be in the southwest (best) or
west corners of the building. An overhead water tank should
not be located in the northeast or southeast corners, or in
the middle of the roof. It is also best that it is not
located in the northwest unless the tank is small and is
located approximately 1m (2 or 3 ft) from the building’s
corner. The tank should be elevated at least 1m (2 or 3 ft)
above the roof, on a platform.If possible, the tank should
not be made of plastic. If it must be plastic, however, it
should either be black or dark blue plastic, because such
colors aid the absorption of sunlight. A dark water tank
while absorbing sun for heat doesn’t encourage microbial
growth as quickly as a light-colored tank would do.If
possible, there should be different tanks for the kitchen
and bathrooms.
It is best if the building’s walls are higher on the west
and south sides and lower on the north and east sides. Also,
the south and west walls should be thicker than the north
and east walls, if possible. The building’s floor and roof
should be higher on the south and west sides, lower on the
north and east sides. Neither the ground nor the building
should be higher in the northeast than in the southwest.
Worship should be done in the northeast, north, or east
sides of the house. It is best that the temple room is in
the northeast corner of the house. The worship room should
not be to the south. The place of worship should be on the
ground floor and not upstairs.
The altar should be
located on the northeast side of the temple room. The
deities or pictures of the deities should either face east
or west, and should not face north or south. It is best that
the Deities face west and the worshipers face east.
The altar should not be
set into the wall but should be at least 2.5 cm (an inch)
from it. The door to the temple room should have two
shutters.
Toilets should never be
above or below the place of worship. White, light yellow, or
light blue are good colors for a temple room. It is good if
the worship room is shaped like a pyramid, sloping inward as
it goes upward toward the roof in the four directions.
The kitchen should ideally be in the southeast corner of the
house, its windows on the east and south sides. There can
also be a window on the west side. If the kitchen cannot be
in the southeast corner, it is all right to place it in the
northwest corner. But in general, the kitchen should not be
in the north, and should certainly not be in the northeast
corner. Locating the kitchen to the southwest will cause
problems.
The kitchen should not be
next to or across from a toilet, nor should it be directly
in front of the main door.
Cooking should be done in
the southeast corner or on the east side of the kitchen. It
is best to cook while facing east, but facing north is also
all right. It is advisable not to put the stove on the
northern wall. The cooking platform should not touch the
wall but should be placed at least 8 cm (3 inches) from the
wall. The stove should not be in front of the kitchen’s
door.Electrical items such as microwaves, grinders, and
mixers should be placed in the southeast corner of the
kitchen. The sink should be in the northeast corner. The
southwest wall should be used for storage.
The refrigerator should be
in the northwest, southeast, south, or west. It should not
be placed on the northeast side. If it is on the southwest
side of the kitchen, be sure to set it away from the wall.
If there is a dining table in the kitchen, it should be
placed on the north or west side. The door to the toilet
should not face the dining table.
Kitchens should be painted
yellow, rose, red, orange, or chocolate brown. If possible,
do not paint the walls white or black.
The living room should be on the north side of the house.
Furniture should be square or rectangular, not round or
oval. It is good if the ceiling slopes down toward the
northeast direction. The air-conditioner should be in the
west, not the southeast. Furniture should mainly be in the
west and south section of the room.
The walls should be
painted white, yellow, green, or blue, never red or black.
Depressing paintings should not be placed on the walls.
The main bedroom should be on the southwest or northwest
side of the house. If there is an upper story in the house,
the master bedroom should be on this floor, in the southwest
corner. Adult married children can also use this room.
Younger children, however, should not use it because that
will cause trouble in the household. Bedrooms on the
northeast side of the house will also cause trouble.
The children’s bedrooms
should be in the northwest or west. The younger children’s
bedroom can also be on the east side of the house, Newly
married couples should not use a bedroom on the east
side.Guest bedrooms are best located in the northwest
corner, but can also be located in the northeast corner.
Bedroom walls should be
painted a light rose, dark blue, dark green, gray, etc. Some
authorities say that the walls should not be painted white
or a light yellow. The door should be set in the east, west
or north, and should ideally be one shutter.
One should sleep in his
own house with his head facing east or south. If one is
staying in someone else’s house, or while traveling, he
should sleep with his head facing west. One should never
sleep with his head facing north. Upon rising from bed, the
right foot should be placed on the floor first.If one is to
study in the bedroom, the east side should be used. The
wardrobe should be located on the northwest or southwest
side of the bedroom. TV, heaters, and air conditioners
should be located in the southeast corner.
The southwest corner of
the room should not be vacant. An attached bathroom could be
built on the west or north sides of the room. It is best not
to keep the safe in a bedroom, but if this is the only place
for the safe, it should be located on the south wall,
opening north.
Money, valuables, or a safe should be stored in a room on
the north side of the house. This is the side of Kubera, the
god of wealth. The door to this room should be facing north
or east. The walls should be painted yellow, because yellow
leads to an increase of wealth.
If a safe is large, it can
be placed in the south, southwest, or west sides of the
house, but it should always be set a few inches from the
wall. It should not be in the southwest or southeast corner,
and should definitely not be in a northeast corner. The safe
should face north and open toward the north or east. It is
inauspicious to have a safe opening to the south—this will
cause a loss of money. The safe should not be located under
any beams.Safes should be installed on a Monday, Wednesday,
Thursday, or Friday, when the Sun is in the constellations
of Dhanishtha, Rohini, Uttara, Swati, Shravan or Punarvasu.
The dining room should be located on the west side of the
house, or on the east or north side of the building. If the
kitchen is on the ground floor, the dining room should not
be on an upper floor but should also be located on the
ground floor.
The door leading into the
dining room should be on the east, north, or west side of
the room. It should not have arches. The house’s main
entrance door should not face the dining room’s door.It is
best to face east or west while eating. The head of the
family should face east during meals. Other members of the
family can face east, north, or west, but it is not
advisable to face south.
The dining table should
not be round or oval but either square or rectangular. It
should not fold from the wall or be attached to the wall.
A sink can be located in
the northeast corner of the dining room, or on the north or
east sides of the room. No toilets should be attached to the
dining room.
Bathrooms can be on the west or northwest sides of the
building, but not on the eastern or northeastern sides. The
toilet room should also not be located on the southeast, the
southwest, or in the center of the building. The morning sun
falling on the body after bathing is good, so windows should
be set in the north or east sides of the room.
Ideally, toilets should face south, not east or west (in the
direction of the sun). The toilet should be located on the
west or northwest side of the room and should be built
30–60cm (1 or 2 feet) above the ground.An attached
bathroom should be on the west or northwest side of a room,
never on the northeast side.
Sinks should be placed on
the northeast, north, or east sides of the room. Bathtubs
should be located on the northeast, west, or east sides.
Bathroom walls should be
painted white, sky blue, or another light shade. Do not use
black or dark red.
Water should leave the
bathroom from the east or northeast side. Water should not
leave from the southwest or southeast directions. The
overhead septic tank should be on the northwest side of the
house.
The library or study should be located on the west side of
the building, but should not be located in the corners of
the house. When using a library or study, it is best to sit
facing east or north.
The bookshelves should not
be in the northwest or southwest corner. Books should be in
the east, north, or west sides of the room.
The door should be
two-shuttered and should be located in the northeast, north,
or west. Windows can be set on the east, north, or west
walls. The walls should be painted white, sky blue, cream,
or light green.
If one will not sleep in
the room, a pyramidal shape (walls sloping inward as they go
upward towards the ceiling) will help study and meditation.
The storage areas should be located in the northwest part of
the building, but not in the north or east. The storage room
door should not be on the southwest side of the room.
Storage cabinets should be located on the west or north
sides of the room. Butter, ghee, oil, and cooking gas should
be kept in the southeast corner.
Best to build stairways on the southwest, or if necessary,
on the south or west sides of the house.
Do not build stairways on
the northeast side, as it will cause loss of wealth. The
staircase should go up from east to west or north to south.
The same stairway that goes to the upper floor should not
also go down to the basement.
Stairways should be built
with an odd number of stairs—9, 11, or 15 steps, for
example. The number of stairs should not end with a zero if
you must build an even number—there should not be 10 or 20
steps—because it is best to begin climbing steps with the
right foot and also to end the climb on the right foot. This
is not possible when there is an even number of stairs. The
right foot is equated with gain, the left with loss.Circular
stairways are not good. The doorway at the top of the
stairway should be at least 20cm (8 inches) lower than the
doorway at the bottom of the stairs. Broken stairs should be
repaired immediately to avoid accidents.
The stairway should be
painted a light color. The worship room, safe, or toilet
should not be located under a staircase.
Basements should ideally not be built under the entire
house. If that is impossible, use only the northeast
section. Heavy equipment can be kept on the south and west
sides.
It is best that the
basement should only be in the northeast side of a house. It
can also be located on the east side of the house. It should
not, however, be located only on the south, southeast, or
west side.
The floor of the basement
should slope downward towards the northeast. The walls
should be at least 3m (9 ft) high. The basement should be
painted white but should not be blue. The heater, water
heater, or electrical panels should be in the southeast
corner of the basement.
Since sunrays do not enter
basements, this highly reduces the basement’s positive
effect on the persons living in them. Therefore, a basement
should not be used for living as far as possible. Basements
are also not good places to conduct business. The
basement’s effects will be improved if one-fourth of the
basement is above ground.
A mezzanine or loft should be built on the south, west, or
southwest sides of a room.
| Directions |
Ruling Planet |
Room
|
| North |
Mercury |
Living (Sitting) room
safe |
| Northeast |
Jupiter |
Worship room living
room |
| East |
Sun |
Living room bathing
room (no toilet) |
| Southeast |
Venus |
Kitchen |
| South |
Mars |
Kitchen storeroom |
| Southwest |
Rahu |
Master bedroom heavy
storage |
| West |
Saturn |
Children’s bedroom
store room study |
| Northwest |
Moon |
Guest room bathroom
grain storage room |
It is best that there are more doors and windows on the
north and east sides of the building. There should be fewer
windows and doors on the upper floors than on the lower
ones. It is also said that the number of doors and windows
on the upper floor should not equal the amount of doors and
windows on the ground floor. The ceiling height of the rooms
on the upper floor should be less than the ceiling height of
the rooms on the ground floor.
If only part of the upper
floor is used, this part should be built in the southwest
area. The balcony should be on the north, east, or northeast
side. The balcony should not be in the southwest corner.
Bedrooms and studies should be located on the upper floor. A
storage area for heavy items should be located on the lower
floor, and not the upper.
It is always good to grow a tulasi plant on one’s
property. Tulasi should be located on the north, northeast,
or east sides of the house, or in front of the house. Trees
should not be planted directly in front of the house’s
main entrance. There should be an even number of trees on
one’s property, not an odd number.Trees should be planted
on the south or west sides of the house. Ideally, they
should be planted on both these sides rather than on only
one side. It is not good to plant a tall tree on the north,
northeast, or east sides of a building.
Smaller trees may be
planted on the east or north sides, but no trees should be
planted in the northeast corner. Tall trees should not be
too close to a building as they block the sunlight. A
tree’s shadow should not fall on the house.Large trees
should not be located too near the house as their roots can
damage the foundation and compound wall. Also, the roots of
large trees absorb sunlight quickly, meaning these positive
rays will not be received by the building. Do not allow tree
branches to touch the house.
Stone sculptures and rock
gardens should be located on the southwest side of the house
because they are heavy.
Thorny plants should not
be planted near the house. Cactus should not be planted at
all. Thorny plants other than roses have a negative energy.
Ideally all thorny plants
should be pulled up and destroyed.
A list of good trees to
plant: coconut, neem, betal, sandalwood, lemon, pineapple,
bilva, almond, jackfruit, pomegranate, mango, amla, and
katha.
Banyan and pipal (aswatha)
are sacred trees; they should usually only be planted near a
temple or at a sacred place.
Creepers or other plants
should not be grown by using the building or compound wall
as support. Creepers should only be grown in a garden, and
they should have their own independent supports.
Plants should be planted
during auspicious constellations. Saplings should first be
planted in clay pots and only later placed in the ground.
This enables them to grow better.
If a tree must be removed
because it is inauspicious or for other reasons, it should
be removed in the months of Magh or Bhadrapada. The day
before cutting the tree, worship it and express regret that
it must be removed from its rooting. Promise to plant a new
tree in its place. Do so within three months. When cutting
the tree, it should fall east or north, not south or west.
Certain rituals can be performed before construction on the
plot begins. The land should be installed at an auspicious
time, during an auspicious constellation. Mondays and
Thursdays are auspicious days for such rituals. Ideally, a
qualified astrologer should set the time of installation.
Worship should be done in
the northeast corner of the land.
Before installing the
land, it should be cleared. Dirt, stones, holes in the
ground, and trash should be removed. Thorny bushes should
also be uprooted and removed.
The installation should
not be done if a woman in the household is more than seven
months pregnant. The groundbreaking ceremony for the house
should only be done during the Uttarayan period, when the
sun is in the northern hemisphere, and when the days are
longer than the nights, from June 21 through December 20.
Before entering a new house, a house-warming ceremony should
be performed. A good time to enter a new house is in the
period of Uttarayan, from June 21 through December 20, in
the months of Vaishaka, Shravan, and Margashirsh, in the
constellation of Uttara, Magha, Ashwini, Swati, Pushya, and
Revati, on an auspicious day. It is good to confirm this
time with a qualified astrologer.
Ganesh-puja,
Navagraha-puja (worship of the nine planets), and worship of
the Vastupratima (building deity) should be performed. The
residents of the building should then circumambulate the
building. Then puja should be done to the threshold.
If one wishes to purchase the land adjacent to one’s own
property, it should be purchased on a Monday, Thursday, or
Friday, during an auspicious constellation such as Vaishaka,
Purva, Ashlesha, Mrig, Revati, Mul, or Anuradha.The land one
already owns can be extended to the north, east, or
northeast. The northwest corner should not be extended. If a
plot is available in the southwest, west, or south sides, it
should not be purchased, as it will cause misfortune and
loss.
If the northeast plot is available, purchase it. It is best
if the adjacent lot on the northeast side is at a lower
elevation than the land already owned. If such land is
purchased, the dividing wall should be taken down. As far as
possible, you should not construct buildings on this land.
The life force contained within the earth is
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