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Svoboda's room-placement doctrine (augmenting BS 53.118)

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Prāṇa relevance

⚑ The chapter's master Vāstu→body lever: a room in the right quadrant lets its purpose-prāṇa flow with the quadrant's element/doṣa/guṇa, raising sukha; a wrong-placed room (e.g. SE bedroom → pitta-heat, NE bedroom → kapha-wet) stamps the wrong doṣa on its residents. The kitchen-SE rule routes the cooking-fire→ digestion→bodily-prāṇa chain (cnx-0001 family). Placement→doṣa is stated; doṣa→prāṇa is the substantiality-layer step (doṣas sit just above prāṇa) left interpretive.

Sources

txt-brihat-samhita53.118 (quoted by Svoboda with translation and 'p. 495', PDF p.208)Classicalunverifiedworship NE, kitchen SE, storeroom SW, treasure+granary NW
txt-svoboda-vastuch. 8 'Organizing a House Full of Rooms' / 'What to Look For in a Room' (PDF pp.208–221, 229–230)Modern✓ verifiedthe full room-placement chart augmenting BS; per-room reasoning by element/planet/guṇa/doṣa; remedy-before-relocate; other texts' kitchen divergences

Other attributes

Rule Class: doctrine
Statement: Assign each room to the quadrant whose qualities (element, planet, guṇa, doṣa) match the room's purpose, augmenting the Bṛhat Saṁhitā skeleton (53.118: worship NE, kitchen SE, storeroom SW, treasure/granary NW) with Vāstu logic. Svoboda's chart of 'most desirable room locations': kitchen SE (south side, never NE); worship/shrine NE; storeroom SW; treasure/granary NW (valuables N wall); master bedroom SW (never NE/SE), guest bedroom NW, children's bedroom W; dining any cardinal, preferably W; library/study W or N; living room at the CENTER; bathroom/toilet S or W (2nd NW/SE), never opposite the front door. A room in its Vāstu-suggested location reaches its potential more easily; only a wrong-placed room WITH strong negative confluence justifies structural change or moving house.
Tag: MODERN
School Positions: [{"school":"pan-indian","position":"kitchen SE, worship NE, storeroom SW, treasure+granary NW","source":"txt-brihat-samhita 53.118 (quoted by Svoboda, PDF p.208)","tag":"CLASSICAL"},{"school":"modern","position":"+ master bedroom SW, dining W, library W/N, living room CENTER, bathroom S/W; kitchen never NE","source":"txt-svoboda-vastu (PDF pp.210–221)","tag":"MODERN"},{"school":"unknown","position":"kitchen also NW (Manuṣyālaya Candrikā, 16th c.) or N/NE (Mānasāra)","source":"txt-svoboda-vastu reporting other texts (PDF pp.229–230)","tag":"TRADITIONAL"}]
Conditions: match each room's purpose to its quadrant's element/planet/guṇa/doṣa; a misaligned room can often be remedied (décor, colour, element-offerings) rather than moved; a non-cardinally-aligned house loses 'automatic allocation' and needs more personalized (breath-tested) evaluation
Exceptions: structural change or relocation only when a wrong-placed room ALSO has strong negative confluence (e.g. a SW kitchen with no back-up, a steep drop behind, large windows, irregular shape)

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