Road access, site gender, and the front-door direction

Prāṇa relevance

Sources

• txt-svoboda-vastuch. 10 'Roads' (PDF pp.261–265)Modern✓ verifiedlongest-wall-parallel rule & south exception; site gender; door-direction preference E>N>W>S; N+E roads ideal; four-road & busy-intersection caveats; corner/bound-angle/open-angle lots; vīthi-śūla

Other attributes

Rule Class

prescription

Statement

A site needs good road access. With one road, the structure's longest outer wall runs PARALLEL to the main road — except when that road lies to the SOUTH (an undesirable direction): then south-alignment is permissible only for a FEMALE plot (and east is still preferred), while a MALE plot does better facing the rising sun. With roads on several sides, the front door faces, in DESCENDING preference: EAST, north, west, south. Best is a plot with roads on both N and E (building faces E or N, with the open space Vāstu wants there, provided roads are lower than the property). Roads on all four sides are 'generally good' but some say fit only for public buildings or multi-family dwellings; avoid busy intersections (traffic, pollution, and excess vāta from crossroads energy). Corner lots are good (especially the NE corner of an intersection); a 'bound-angle' corner lot is best (roads act as energy 'moats'); an 'open-angle' lot needs fencing and protection from the road-bend's spear (vīthi-śūla).

Tag

MODERN

Conditions

Site 'gender' (N–S longer = female; E–W longer = male) governs south-road alignment. Roads should be LOWER than the property (to preserve the NE-low intake). Dead-ends, T-stems and open-angle points act as vīthi-śūla (see frm-vithi-shula).