Built Formdraftschool: mixed· Svoboda — Vāstu
Road-spear (vīthi-śūla)
वीथिशूलvīthi-śūla
also: road-spear, vithi-sula, street-spear, T-stem-spear
frm-vithi-shulaDefinition
A road that 'spears' a building site — chiefly a road dead-ending AT a plot, the stem of a T-intersection abutting it, or the spear-point of an 'open-angle' lot opposite a road's bend (vīthi = 'road'). The road's 'very active energy' skewers the land in its path and disturbs the happiness of those who live there. ⚑ [MODERN — Svoboda's prāṇa reading of a TRADITIONAL Vāstu site-defect; claimed-classical: Vāstu śāstra].
Modern
Prāṇa relevance
⚑ A genuine prāṇa-spine datum at the SITE scale: the spear acts directly on the mobility of prāṇa, converting transient road-energy into a vāta excess in the residents ('overexcites the quality of mobility in the prāṇa that flows through nearby houses and their inhabitants', p.263). The site→prāṇa→ doṣa chain is stated, not merely asserted — the mechanism is prāṇa-mobility. Closest the chapter comes to a closed site→doṣa lever; the final doṣa→health step is left implicit (flagged).
Connections (2)
disturbs · 2
- A vīthi-śūla (road-spear: dead-end road, T-stem, or open-angle spear-point pointed at a plot) injects transient, highly mobile road-energy into the site; this 'overexcites the quality of mobility in the prāṇa that flows through nearby houses and their inhabitants', and since vāta is the doṣa of movement/mobility, the over-mobilized prāṇa manifests as an excess of vāta that 'destabilizes everything and everyone who lives in such a residence'. The qualifier is that the spear strikes the building (esp. its heart); a non-striking or NE-side spear is acceptable.
- The road-spear acts directly on prāṇa as such: its 'very active energy skewers' the land and 'overexcites the quality of mobility in the prāṇa that flows through nearby houses and their inhabitants'. A dead-end variant instead makes prāṇa STAGNATE. Either way the spear disturbs the serene flow of prāṇa the dwelling is meant to preserve.
Sources
- txt-svoboda-vastuch. 10 'Roads' (PDF pp.263–265)Modern✓ verifiedvīthi-śūla types (dead-end, T-stem, open-angle spear-point), prāṇa-mobility/vāta mechanism, heart-strike danger, multiplicity rule, remedy by excision
Other attributes
- Form Class
- site-defect
- Effects
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- Remedy Note
- Remediable by cordoning-off or selling-off the speared land (cutting a slice at least as wide as the offending road, to the full thickness of the plot, so no undesirable extension remains); kept land is best used for a 'neutral purpose such as some sort of garden' (PDF p.264). [Residue: the full spear-direction acceptability table is INDEXED-SKIM, promote? if a placement chain needs it.]