Principle / Ruledraft· Bṛhat Saṁhitā

Dual deity-placement schemes (dikpala compass vs pada-deity grid)

rul-dual-deity-schemes

Prāṇa relevance

Indirect but real: the prana-bearing homologies attach to specific deities at specific places (Agni-SE for the digestive-fire chain; the pada-grid for the limb homology). Getting the scheme wrong mis-routes every downstream prana chain — which is why the cnx-0001 round trip mattered. Not a prana claim itself; "not yet traced" as a direct link.

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

School PositionsDiverges

Sources differ — both values shown; never overwritten.

txt-svoboda-vastuch. 6 'Dikpālas' (PDF p.158–159); 'Five Great Elements' (PDF p.150)Modern
{school: 'modern (Svoboda 2013, transmitting the dikpāla compass)', dikpala_roster: 'Indra-E, Agni-SE, Yama-S, Nirṛti-SW, Varuṇa-W, Vāyu-NW, KUBERA-N, Īśāna/Īśvara-or-Soma-NE, Brahmā-ūrdhva(up), Ananta/Śeṣa-adhas(down)', element_roster: 'Fire-SE, Air-NW, Water-NE, Space-or-Earth-SW, fifth(Space-or-Earth)-center', divergence_from_BS: 'N: Kubera (Svoboda) vs Soma/Moon (BS 54.3). NE: Īśāna/Soma (concurs). Element-scheme has no BS-54.3 counterpart (BS 53 has no compass element roster); cf. BS pada grid §8: Apah/Waters-inner-NE, Anila-SE-corner, Pitr-SW-corner.', tag: MODERN, source: 'Svoboda ch.6 Dikpālas + Five Great Elements (PDF p.149–159)'}

Per §8: Svoboda's roster added as one school_position on the meta-rule for scheme-vs-scheme comparison. The Kubera-N vs Soma-N divergence is the headline intercardinal/cardinal mismatch.

txt-svoboda-vastuch. 7 'The Nine Grahas' (PDF p.167–168)Traditional
{school: 'modern (Svoboda 2013, transmitting the commonest Vāstu graha↔direction scheme)', scheme_layer: 'graha-dik (planet↔direction)', graha_roster: 'Sun-E, Venus-SE, Mars-S, Rāhu&Ketu-SW, Saturn-W, Moon-NW, Mercury-N, Jupiter-NE (8 bearings; both Nodes share SW)', planet_element_pairings_at_intercardinals: 'Venus-SE=Fire, Moon-NW=Air, Jupiter-NE=Water, Nodes-SW=Space+Earth', recapitulates: 'the ch.6 dikpāla regents (Sun~Indra-E, Mars~Yama-S, Saturn~Varuṇa-W, Mercury~Kubera-N) and the ch.6 element scheme', concurrence: 'IDENTICAL to Frawley worship/compass scheme AND to the BS Book-1 claimed-classical-but-unpinned roster — third witness, still UNPINNED (Svoboda: this is the scheme Vāstu employs most often, p167)', source: 'Svoboda ch.7 The Nine Grahas (PDF p.167–168)'}

Per §8: Svoboda's GRAHA roster added as a third scheme-layer (graha-dik) on the meta-rule, alongside his ch.6 dikpāla and element rosters already recorded by the pilot. This is the planet↔direction layer (scope graha-dik), distinct from the dikpāla compass and the pada grid.

Sources

  • txt-brihat-samhita54.3Classical✓ verifieddikpala roster (compass scheme), Agni-SE
  • txt-brihat-samhita53.42–50Classical✓ verifiedpada-deity grid (grid scheme), fire-named Śikhin-NE
  • txt-brihat-samhita53.118Classical✓ verifieddirection-names (āgneyī/nairṛtī/mārutī/aiśānī) presuppose the compass

Notes from other books

  • txt-svoboda-vastuSvoboda himself says 'the names of these dikpālas vary from text to text; here is the most commonly accepted list' (p.158) — an explicit acknowledgment of roster variance that the §8 machinery exists to hold. His element↔direction roster (Fire-SE, Air-NW, Water-NE, SW/center = Space-or-Earth) is a SECOND scheme layered on the dikpāla compass; both are recorded so Phase 2/3 can compare them scheme-against-scheme to BS and Mayamata/Manasara. [MODERN — Svoboda]
  • txt-svoboda-vastuSvoboda explicitly flags roster-variance — 'five chief styles of Jyotiṣa offer more than one system for correlating the Nine Grahas with the directions, the following is the scheme that Vāstu employs most often' (p167) — the precise acknowledgment the §8 machinery exists to hold. His graha-dik roster matches Frawley's worship scheme and the BS-unpinned roster exactly, making three concurring witnesses on a still-unpinned scheme. Recorded for Phase 2/3 scheme-against-scheme comparison; the ★★★ question carries the cross-book thread.

Other attributes

Rule Class
meta-principle
Statement
A Vastu text typically operates two independent direction→deity schemes that diverge at the intercardinal points: (1) the dikpala compass — one quarter-lord per bearing; (2) the Vastu Purusha Mandala pada-deity grid — 45 deities over the plot. They must be modeled as separate layers (governs-edge `scope`: dikpala vs pada) and compared scheme-to-scheme across texts, never merged. See ontology-schema.md §8.
Scope Note
Every direction↔deity governs-edge carries scope ∈ {dikpala, pada, graha-dik, adhidevata}.
Tag
CLASSICAL
Notes
Holds the BS baseline against which Phase 2 texts are compared. Scheme mismatches across texts become contradicts edges (conflict_axis: school) attached here. Durable prose version: schema §8.
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