Built Formdraftschool: pan-indian· Bṛhat Saṁhitā

Door

dvāra

frm-dvara

Definition

The house door as a normed component: dimensioned by rul-door-dimensions (53.24–25), framed per rul-component-proportions (53.26–27), positioned on the mandala's outer padas with per-pada effects (53.71–75), subject to vedha (obstruction) doctrine (53.76–78), to intrinsic-defect effects (53.79–81), and to the chief-door preeminence rule (53.82).

Classical

Prāṇa relevance

The door is the dwelling's intake aperture; the text attaches body-level outcomes to its faults — lunacy from a self-opening door (53.79), epilepsy from well-vedha (53.77) — making it a first-class Phase 3 node even before any vayu/breath analogy is sourced [gap noted, do not force].

Cross-book attributes (1) — fill / concur / diverge

Door Defects SvobodaFilledper txt-svoboda-vastu

Svoboda quotes-and-locates BS 53.67a (Sanskrit: 'Mārga-taru-koṇa-kūpa-stambha-bhrama-viddham aśubhadaṁ dvāram'; Bhat p.481): 'It is unfavorable for a door to be pierced by a road, tree, corner, well, pillar, or watercourse.' He extends it MODERNLY: the front door is 'the prima donna of the home' — it should not be obscured by hedge/boulder/foliage/shadow; nothing inauspicious (toilets, drains, stairs, laundry/storeroom maw, cemetery, dump, slaughterhouse) should sit in its line of sight inside or out; a road that T-junctions in front acts like a śūla, an 'energy spear aimed right at the heart of the dwelling' that 'can disrupt the free movement of prāṇa' (driveways, lampposts, utility poles, transmission lines, sharp building-angles can also be spears). Remedy: obstruct the spear's view (hedge/fence) or place a yantra; a streetlight-spear ≥ twice as far as it is tall is harmless. A foyer/vestibule is a useful transition zone (remove shoes there).

Connections (6)

avoided-in · 1

→Brahmasthana (central zone)Classical

disturbs · 4

→Sharira (the human gross body)Classical
Stated as effect-pairs (53.77–78); remedy: removal to twice the height annuls (53.76).
→Sharira (the human gross body)Classical
→Prana (life-force / breath)Modern
The shula/spear doctrine: a road that T-junctions in front of a house, a driveway, lamppost, utility pole, transmission line, or sharp building-angle 'acts like a shula, an energy spear aimed right at the heart of your dwelling' and 'can disrupt the free movement of prana' (PDF p.185). QUALIFIER (folded into text, no schema field): fires only when a spear/piercing entity is in line with the door and within twice its height.
→Brahmasthana (central zone)Traditional
Svoboda, attributing the claim to Brihat Samhita (but pinning NO chapter:verse): a residence's main door placed in the CENTER of its principal wall sits directly in line with the Brahma Sthana and acts as a sula (spear/spike) that 'wounds' the Brahma Sthana by 'piercing' it (p.284). Hence a residence door must flank the wall-center, not occupy it (temples/public buildings excepted).

governs · 1

←Sun (Surya)Traditional
The Jyotishical door: the front wall is divided into nine planet-ruled segments (Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu - the weekday order); the planet ruling the door's segment 'will have a substantially magnified influence' on the inhabitants (PDF pp.180-182). Direction A->B: the SEGMENT-PLANET governs the door-segment (the planet has lordship), NOT the reverse. scope: graha-dik. Representative edge for the Sun segment (first in the assignment order); rul-jyotishical-door-planet generalizes to all nine grahas.

Sources

txt-brihat-samhita53.71–82Classical✓ verifiedposition effects, vedha, defects, chief-door rule

Notes from other books

txt-svoboda-vastuThe śūla/spear doctrine ties the door directly to prāṇa: a spear 'disrupts the free movement of prāṇa' into the dwelling — a clean dwelling→prāṇa lever. The BS 53.67a verse Svoboda quotes overlaps Book-1's dvāra-defects rules; flagged as a cross-book corroboration question (the Sanskrit + Bhat p.481 locus make it the most checkable BS cross-quote in this theme). [MODERN — Svoboda for the extension; CLASSICAL (verified:false) for the BS verse]

Other attributes

Form Class: component
Effects: see rul-dvara-phala-by-pada, rul-dvara-vedha, rul-dvara-defects
Corner Allocation Note: For door placement the corner padas count with the adjacent cardinal side: NE→east, SE→south, SW→west, NW→north — Utpala, with quotations Bhat calls conclusive [CLASSICAL — txt-utpala-vivrti, on 53.71–75].

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