Principle / Ruledraft· Svoboda — Vāstu

Square the plan: keep the Vāstu Puruṣa whole (no missing/distorted quadrants)

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Prāṇa relevance

Bridges geometry to body and prāṇa: the plan's quadrants are the Vāstu Puruṣa's limbs, its lines his nāḍīs and its crossings his marmas; a 'bitten' / asymmetric plan obstructs his prāṇa (and, by the limb↔ owner homology of BS 53.58, the owner's corresponding limb). The NE-head datum makes the NE quadrant the prāṇa-critical 'head'. The BS effect-claims (BS 53:67b) are CLASSICAL via Svoboda's quote; the squaring- remedy doctrine is Svoboda's MODERN systematisation.

Sources

  • txt-svoboda-vastuch. 5 'Vāstu Puruṣa Maṇḍala' / 'Vāstu Puruṣa Grids' (PDF pp.131–133)Modern✓ verifiedsquare/rectangular plan keeps Vāstu Puruṣa whole; deviations are 'bites'; missing quadrant = lost limb-function; squaring remedies; built-in vs free-standing furniture distinction
  • txt-brihat-samhita53:67b (Bhat ed., p. 475 — quoted by Svoboda)Classicalunverifieda headless Vāstu Puruṣa (deformed NE quadrant) makes the master/mistress 'fall from all virtues'; whole-limbed Vāstu Puruṣa → honor, wealth, happiness

Other attributes

Rule Class
doctrine
Statement
A clearly demarcated square or rectangular floor plan keeps the Vāstu Puruṣa whole; any deviation of the outer wall from the ideal square/rectangular perimeter is a 'bite'/injury to him, and a missing or distorted quadrant means 'loss of that limb's function'. In particular a deformed NORTHEAST quadrant = a 'headless' Vāstu Puruṣa, which the Bṛhat Saṁhitā says makes the master/mistress 'fall from all virtues' (BS 53:67b). Remedies (Vāstu Puruṣa being adaptable): redraw to the largest symmetric square/rectangle inside the area, add 'virtual walls' (fences/hedges) for missing physical walls, sequester protruding portions, or expand into a symmetric verandah; 'square' all asymmetrical areas (partitions, furniture, mirrors as last resorts). Built-in furniture/stairwells that breach a room's wall-symmetry injure that room's (and possibly the house's) Vāstu Puruṣa; free-standing furniture does not.
Tag
MODERN
Conditions
applies to plot, house and room; the injured quadrant maps to the corresponding life-domain/limb-function
Exceptions
free-standing (non-integral) furniture does not 'chop off' limbs; a redrawn smaller symmetric perimeter restores wholeness
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