VASTU GLOSSARY

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ABOUT VASTU

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1. Agni – the lord of fire, located in the southeast direction

2. Aap – water, one of the five elements

3. Aakash – space, one of the five elements

4. Atman – individual consciousness

5. Brahma – the creator of the universe

6. Brahmastan – the central courtyard and energy center of the house, the heart of the house

7. Dhumam – southeast

8. Dwajam – east

9. Gajam – north

10. Jiva – the soul

11. Jyotish – indian astrology

12. Kakam – northeast

13. Kharam – northwest

14. Mayan was an architect and town planner of ancient India

15. Mayamata – a treatise on building and architecture, authored by Mayan

16. Purusha – consciousness itself

17. Parmataman – universal consciousness

18. Prana – life force

19. Prakriti – nature

20. Shrishti – creation of the entire universe

21. Simham – south

22. Sthapati – a master sculptor/architect of Vastu Science

23. Sthapatya ved – the science and art of applying the universal laws of Vastu Science to to towns, buildings and sculpture
    Also: sthapatya veda, sthapatyaved

24. Sutregrahi – vedic term for draftsman

25. Swanam – southwest

26. Takshaka – vedic term for carpenter

27. Vaastu Purusha – the energy contained in the Earth

28. Vardhaki – vedic term for mason

29. Vastu – Derived from the the word “to dwell, live”: That which lives forever. If you take the universe and crush it into a drop, that is Vastu: the substance of the universe. It is eternally living.
    Also: vasthu

30. Vaastu: what has issued out of Vastu is Vaastu. Vaastu is the manifest Universe: every “thing” in it. Vastu becomes Vaastu. E=mc2 Energy becomes matter: this is the Divine formula
    Also: vaasthu

31. Vastu Purusha Mandala – The plan of the layout of a temple or a residential building
    Also: mandala purusha vastu, mandal purush vaastu

32. Vastu sastra – science of energy, of energy applied in a vastu
    Also: vaastu shastra, vasthu saastra, vaastu shaastra and other spellings

33. Vastudevata (vastupurush) – the energy – or deity – of the premises

34. Vasthu Vidya – knowledge of vasthu

35. Vidya – Knowledge

36. Vedanta – a name for the vedic texts, the Upanishads

37. Yrushabham – west