prana-bodystubschool: pan-indian· Bṛhat Saṁhitā

Sharira (the human gross body)

śarīra
pra-sharira

Definition

The resident/owner's gross body as the target of vastu effects; generic node for limbs, health, and harm statements until finer subtle-body entities are warranted.
Traditional

Prāṇa relevance

Terminal node of the site→body chain in BS 53.58–59 and 53.65–68.

Cross-book attributes (4) — fill / concur / diverge

Body House ResonanceFilledper txt-svoboda-vastu
A three-layered body↔house relationship: the breathing body relates to the house's 'body' (physical contents/functions); personal prāṇa tallies with the residence's prāṇa flows; the dwelling's 'subtle sediments and vibrations' affect the mental partitions (habits/idiosyncrasies). 'Good Vāstu structures create a resonance between you and your space; as you breathe, so will your dwelling.' The 'one sizable discontinuity' to attend to is the border zone 'between our birth skins and the skins of our structures' — a well-designed residence bridges it.
Body Well RootedFilledper txt-svoboda-vastu
A well-rooted body has 'the head correctly aligned on the spine, which should itself be firmly set in the pelvis' — the bodily analogue of the well-rooted living space's stable unoccupied centre; healthy prāṇa is well-rooted 'in body and in living space'.
Home Is Body ExtensionFilledper txt-svoboda-vastu
'Your home being an extension of your body, Vāstu language fundamentally speaks to us at the level of our bodies, our senses, our prāṇa.' The body's prāṇa-centre (hara, below the navel) is the reading-organ for a building's rightness.
House As Supplementary SkinFilledper txt-svoboda-vastu
⚑ The dwelling is part of the body's 'supplementary skin'. Higher animals 'live in bodies defined by our external skins and the internal skins of our digestive tracts'; uniquely, humans 'can use our faculties of self-perception and craftmaking to generate additional skins for improved self-protection' — first clothes ('wearable skins'), then shelter ('secondary skin': houses, offices, vehicles, furniture). 'Our dwelling spaces form one portion of our supplementary skin.' Skins nest outward (lawn↔house, fence↔neighborhood, city↔state… 'to infinity, and beyond') and inward (lymph/blood, blood/flesh, flesh/fat, bone/marrow; the central nervous system as the skin that 'shelters your prāṇa'). 'Deep within the mind is the locus of pure awareness, which adorns itself in all these skins.'

Connections (7)

corresponds-to · 3
  • ↔Limb-scheme of the Vastu PurushaClassical
    Forward: hurt at a site point afflicts the owner's matching limb (53.58). Reverse: the owner's spontaneous limb-scratching at query time, or omens during the construction oblation, diagnose which limb of the House-God carries the affliction (53.59).
  • ↔Veins of the earth (water-veins)Classical
    BS 54.2 states the homology directly and uses the same word, sira, for both: 'just as there are veins in the human body, so do they exist... in the earth.' The correspondence licenses reading the site as a living body whose water-channels parallel the resident's.
  • ↔rul-house-as-skinModern
    Svoboda models the dwelling as 'another skin' / a 'supplementary skin' — an outer layer of the same nested skin-system as the body's external skin, digestive-tract skin, and inner boundaries (lymph/blood, flesh/fat, bone/marrow, the nervous system). 'Your home being an extension of your body', the house's body-functions correspond to the resident's body, and 'as you breathe, so will your dwelling' — a homology/resonance between dwelling and gross body.
disturbs · 4

Sources

  • txt-brihat-samhita53.58–59Classical✓ verifiedOwner's limbs correspond to the House-God's; affliction and divination run both ways

Notes from other books

  • txt-svoboda-vastuSvoboda's 'another skin' / supplementary-skin doctrine gives pra-sharira (the gross body, a bare BS stub: 'generic node for limbs, health and harm') its first dwelling-bridge: the house is modeled as an outer layer of the same nested skin-system as flesh, fat and the nervous system, with the body↔house boundary ('birth skin' ↔ 'structure skin') as the zone Vāstu works on. The strongest dwelling↔body homology in Book 3's thesis; the standalone concept entity is pra-supplementary-skin (below). Corroborates — from the skin/limb side — the BS House-God↔owner limb-homology (pra-vastu-purusha-anga, 53.58–59); flagged.

Other attributes

System Of Origin
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