Vāstu Maṇḍala

Lay the vāstu-puruṣa on your own ground. Find the two norths, the Sun’s and the compass’s; draw Varāhamihira’s 81- or 64-pada maṇḍala over your plot with all forty-five gods, the sūtras and atimarmas and the man himself; then lay out the house on it — doors and windows on the walls, rooms as rooms, the bed, stove, desk and the rest of the furniture, a basement below and floors above — and read every placement against the Bṛhat Saṁhitā and the Viśvakarmaprakāśa, with modern practice kept apart. Tap anything on the plan for its reading; each fault comes with a fix you can apply.