Vastu

Vastu Shastra is the traditional system of home designing or architecture, it can be explained as a science of architecture. Vastu defines the complete layout of ground preparation, spatial geometry, measurements and space management. Even Buddhism talks about vastu. These designs integrate with various parts of the structure and various beliefs having yantra, symmetry, and alignments in them. Vastu is an ancient vidya or subject and vastu shastra is the tool of vastu vidya. Inventor or propagator of vastu vidya is considered as Lord Vishwakarma. Vishwakarma was the chief architecture of devtas or the Gods. Vastu is knowledge of the collection of ideas which can be considered with or without the diagrams and these diagrams are not rigid. The vastu suggest designing the things in a proper manner according to their use and function in relationship with the space organization and directions. It even describes what kind of fabric must be used and what the color must be there. It describes the mandir, the houses, cities, towns, roads, the gardens, the workplace and the directions of public areas.

In vastu, while designing a land or plot, the central area of the plot is called mandal or the brahmasthan. This central area has spiritual and ritual significance. The space occupied by it varies in different mandals the pitha they are nine in number, the upapitha they are 25 in number if one square module occupies it than mahaapitha, ugrapitha, and manduka. Pitha is symbolic of prothvimandala and is the central space which is purely occupied by the earth. Among all these mandals the most important mandal which is known is manduka or chandita mandala, this mandala is of 64 square modules. Another important mandal is paramshakya mandala which is of 81 squares.

The directions in vastu shashtra are defined according to the directions of vastu purusha. This Vastu Purusha is in the paramshakya mandala. The head of Vastu Purusha is depicted in the east and his feet are in the west. Between north and east is ishan kon or angle. The direction between and south is aagney kon or angle and the direction between north and west is known as vayavya kon or angle. Ishan kon's master is mercury or guru, master of agney kon is shukra, master of naitratya kon are rahu-ketu, master of vayavya kon is the moon, master of east direction is the sun, master of the west is Saturn or Shani, master of north is kuber and master of south is mars or mangal.

It is strongly believed that each land or building has its own soul and this soul is vastu purusha. The sites of a shape or plot are defined through padvinyas. These sites are defined in numbers of the squares. And ranges from 1x1 to 32x32 square sites. These mandals are

When 1 square then it indicates Eka- pada or single site, division

When 4 squares or Pechaka then it indicates Dwi- pada or double site, division

When 9 squares or pitha then it indicates tri- pada or three sites, division

When 16 squares or mahaapita then it indicates chatus- pada or four sites, division

When 25 squares or upapitha then it indicates panch- pada or five sites, division

When 36 squares or ugrapitha then it indicates shashtha- pada or six sites, division

When 49 squares or sthandila then it indicates sapta pada or seven sites of division

When 64 squares or manduka or chandika then it indicates astha pada or eight sites of division

When 81 squares or paramsaaviak then it indicates nava pada or nine sites of division

When 100 squares or asana then it indicates astha pada or dasha sites of division

When 196 squares or bhdramahasan then it indicates chodah pada or foourteen sites of division

It is also defined that each house or office or can be easily said that each building must be designed according to vastu to get best results, health, wealth, serenity and love in life. and an astrologist can solve all the direction bound problems.