Door obstruction (vedha) and its remedy

Prāṇa relevance

Connections (1)

Sources

• txt-brihat-samhita53.76–78Classical✓ verifiedvedha list, remedy distance, effects

Other attributes

Rule Class

proscription

Statement

A door pierced (in its sight-line) by a road, tree, corner, well, pillar or water-sluice is inauspicious; removal to a distance of twice the height annuls the fault.

Effects Detail

{"road":"owner's death","tree":"harm to children","mire_mud":"grief","water_sluice":"excessive expenditure","well":"epilepsy (apasmāra per Bhat's rendering 'epilepsy')","god_idol":"owner's destruction","pillar":"frailty of women","facing_brahman":"extinction of the family"}

Exceptions

Doors at Bhallata and Soma (north) are auspicious by 53.75 despite facing the center — Utpala treats 53.75 as the exception to 53.78 (see cnx-0023).

Remedy Ambiguity

Whether 'twice its height' measures the door or the piercing object was disputed; settled by Garga's parallel in favor of [the door — per Bhat's discussion] [CLASSICAL — txt-utpala-vivrti, via Bhat].

Tag

CLASSICAL