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The Vastu Purusha Mandala,
zone by zone.

Every Vastu rule on this site comes from one diagram: the mandala, the energy map the classical texts lay over every plot and floor plan. The story goes that a cosmic being was pinned to the ground by forty-five deities, and where each deity sits, that quality lives in your home. Here is the whole grid in plain words: each direction, its deity, its element, its colour, and what it does in a real house.

North is at the top. The full classical grid holds forty-five deities across eighty-one squares; these nine zones are the working map every home consultation begins with.

The Nine Energies

What each zone does in a real home.

North-East · Ishanya

Deity: Ishwar (Shiva) · Element: Water

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The quietest, most sacred corner of the grid: the seat of clarity, prayer and guidance. When this zone is open, light and clean, the whole family thinks clearly.

Keep: the pooja space, a water source, maximum light and openness. Avoid: toilets, kitchens, heavy storage and clutter of any kind.

Example: in homes where a toilet sits on the north-east, families often describe mornings that feel heavy before the day even begins. Clean and lighten this corner and the mind follows.

North-East Dosha Correction · the north-east toilet remedies

North · Uttara

Deity: Kubera · Element: Water · Flow

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The direction of opportunity and incoming wealth. The old texts seat the treasurer of the gods here; modern homes feel it as the flow of work, money and new openings.

Keep: entrances, living areas, the locker opening toward north, lightness. Avoid: blocking it with tall heavy storage, toilets on the north wall, permanent clutter.

Example: a north side stacked with heavy almirahs behaves like a blocked doorway; families report work that keeps starting and stalling. Clear the north and enquiries breathe again.

Money Zone Analysis · the north facing house guide

East · Purva

Deity: Indra · Element: Sun · Beginnings

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The gate of the rising sun: health, name and new beginnings. Whatever should grow in life is given the morning light of the east.

Keep: the main door where the plot allows, open windows, a study desk facing east. Avoid: walling off the east completely or piling height against it.

Example: turn a struggling student's desk to face east and watch the first hour of study change; the direction of dawn is the cheapest tutor a family can hire.

Sunlight & Ventilation Audit · the study table guide

South-East · Agneya

Deity: Agni · Element: Fire

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The home of fire: cooking, digestion, energy and drive. Fire placed in its own corner feeds the house; fire in the wrong corner quarrels with it.

Keep: the kitchen, the stove, electrical mains and equipment. Avoid: water tanks over this zone, and the sink pressed against the flame.

Example: shifting a kitchen's cooking flame into its south-east sub-zone is the single most common correction in this practice, and the one kitchens thank you for fastest.

Kitchen Vastu Consultation · the kitchen direction guide

South · Dakshina

Deity: Yama · Element: Earth · Discipline

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The direction of discipline, name and endurance. A strong, heavy south wall is the spine of the classical home; it holds what the family builds.

Keep: thick walls, height, the bed's head toward south while sleeping. Avoid: casually punched openings, water sloping south, and entrances on a wrong pada.

Example: old family homes with solid south walls are the ones neighbours call tikau, lasting. That is this zone doing its quiet work across generations.

South Dosha Correction · the south facing house guide

South-West · Nairritya

Deity: Nairritya (Pitru) · Element: Earth

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The heaviest corner of the grid: stability, relationships and command. The one who carries the family is seated where the earth is strongest.

Keep: the master bedroom, the safe and reserves, heavy storage, maximum built weight. Avoid: cuts in this corner, borewells, toilets and lightweight emptiness.

Example: when the earning head of a family sleeps away from the south-west, authority often leaks without anyone naming why; a room swap is usually the whole correction.

South-West Dosha Correction · the master bedroom guide

West · Paschima

Deity: Varuna · Element: Water · Gains

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The direction of completion and gains: effort maturing into result under the setting sun. Steady finishers are made here.

Keep: the dining space, children's rooms, the overhead tank on west or south-west. Avoid: writing the west off as unlucky; it only asks for the right entrance position.

Example: families who dine on the west side often describe meals that actually end the day instead of extending it; completion is this zone's gift.

Main Door Direction Analysis · the west facing house guide

North-West · Vayavya

Deity: Vayu · Element: Air

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The corner of air and movement: guests, dispatch, and everything meant to come, serve and go. Nothing meant to stay forever belongs here.

Keep: the guest room, finished goods in a business, vehicles, the alternative kitchen. Avoid: the family safe, long-term storage of valuables, stagnation.

Example: a guest room in the north-west keeps hospitality warm and visits pleasantly short, which is exactly the humour the old texts assign this wind-ruled corner.

Guest Room Harmony · the alternative kitchen rules

Centre · Brahmasthan

Deity: Brahma · Element: Space (Akash)

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The lungs of the house: the open centre through which the whole grid breathes. Every other zone borrows its life from here.

Keep: openness, light, air, and as little as possible. Avoid: toilets, staircases, heavy columns, storage and beams pressing on daily-use areas.

Example: flats with a blocked, dark centre feel airless within minutes of entering; open the Brahmasthan even partially and the same square feet start to breathe.

Brahmasthan Open Space Planning · the beam and load guide

The Full Grid

All forty-five deities of the Paramasayika.

The nine zones above are the working map. The classical grid beneath them is finer: eighty one squares, forty five deities. The border holds thirty two, numbered here clockwise from the sacred north east; the inner ring holds thirteen around Brahma. The starred padas are the classical entry positions: when the guides on this site speak of a correct door pada, these eight squares are exactly what is being measured.

East Wall · 1 to 8

1Ishana The sacred corner: water, clarity and the divine.

2Parjanya Rain and offspring; kind to water inlets.

3Jayanta ★ Victory and vigour.

4Mahendra ★ Authority and leadership.

5Ravi The sun: health, vitality, recognition.

6Satya Truth; keep this stretch honest and clean.

7Bhrisha The east tail; doors are avoided this close to the corner.

8Antariksha Open sky; no heavy loads here.

South Wall · 9 to 16

9Agni The fire corner: kitchen and energy equipment.

10Pushan Nourishment and safe journeys; corner-adjacent, so no doors.

11Vitatha ★ A permitted south entry; the name itself warns against crooked dealings.

12Grihakshata ★ Household order and strength.

13Yama Law and discipline; heavy walls sit well.

14Gandharva Music, arts and pleasantness.

15Bhringaraja A south tail pada, kept light.

16Mriga Corner-adjacent; storage suits, doors do not.

West Wall · 17 to 24

17Pitru The ancestors: the heaviest, most protected corner.

18Dauvarika The doorkeeper; guards the western approach.

19Sugriva ★ An auspicious west entry.

20Pushpadanta ★ Flowers and welcome; the finest west entry.

21Varuna Water and fairness; the middle strength of the west.

22Asura A west pada kept disciplined and simple.

23Shosha Depletion; fix leaks and dampness here fast.

24Roga The illness pada; kept spotless, dry and light.

North Wall · 25 to 32

25Vayu The wind corner: movement, guests and dispatch.

26Naga Underground currents; pipelines pass respectfully.

27Mukhya The chief builder; renovations begin well here.

28Bhallata ★ Abundance; an auspicious north entry.

29Soma ★ Mind and medicine; the gentlest north entry.

30Bhujaga Hidden serpent energy; keep the stretch calm.

31Aditi The boundless mother; openness rewards.

32Diti Bounded form; the approach to Ishana stays light.

Inner Ring · Brahma and Twelve

·Brahma The breathing centre; nine padas with no load and no walls.

·Aryama Honourable conduct; the corridor east of the centre.

·Vivasvan The radiant one; the southern corridor.

·Mitra Friendship and agreements; the western corridor.

·Bhudhara (Prithvidhara) The earth-bearer; steadies the northern corridor.

·Apah The waters; purity flowing toward Ishana.

·Apavatsa Gentleness beside the waters.

·Savitra The kindler; the morning fire's inner seat.

·Savitri The sacred impulse beside Savitra.

·Indra Inner strength anchoring the south-west.

·Indrajaya Indra's victory, seated beside him.

·Rudra The fierce protector of the wind corner.

·Rudrajaya Rudra's force, tempered beside him.

From this map to your floor plan

Professional readings split the compass into sixteen zones with precise degrees and seat this exact grid on your actual floor plan. That measured overlay, drawn on your drawing with a compass bearing taken at your door, is where every consultation here begins. The maps above give you the honest working knowledge; the measured reading gives you the surgery.

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