What it does
To understand why every plot must be checked for bones before construction.
Where
Any plot, house, office or industry
Cautions
Explanation and notes
Bones break the peace of a home, bring disease to the residents, stop the movement of business and can push a project into bankruptcy. Spirits make their home on bones, which is why tantriks keep them; when a bone is lifted out, the spirits cling to the soil it touched, because the bone has made that soil like itself. A vertical bone links straight up to the space element and collapses business quickly. Ancient texts such as Vishwakarma Prakash, Samarangan Sutradhar, Mayamatam, Mansar and Garuda Puran describe land testing and purification and treat shalya as the biggest land defect. Shalya is not only bone: coal, ash, some animal fossils and kaudi buried in the ground also count.
Locates bones and other shalya (harmful objects) buried in a plot. A dowsing rod or pendulum turning anti-clockwise over a spot, or the breath (swar) shifting into sushumna while standing there, confirms that something negative is buried at that point.
An ashtang nimitta method that reads where on the body the person asking about a plot feels itching. The spot tells whether the buried bone is of an animal or a human, male or female, and which animal.
The full purification done where a bone has been dug out, the land's equivalent of the rites after a death: vastu registry with five coconuts, removal of the affected soil, agni sanskar with mango wood, water, gomutra and cow-dung purification, lime and sulphur, a 24-hour lamp and mercury.
When bones remain under a plot, mercury mixed into the soil changes its chemistry and can remove up to 75 percent of their harmful effect, including the spirit trouble attached to them.
If at least 6 ft of soil is filled above the place where a bone lies, even a cremation ground beneath causes no trouble, provided the 16 sanskars of the land are then performed on top.
Besides bones, coal, ash, some animal fossils and kaudi in the ground act as shalya. A furnace (bhatti) left buried under a building ruins the family and the business, and kaudi must never be buried, although gomti chakra can be.
The corners of a plot are its biggest sources of energy, and energy flows diagonally from corner to corner through the brahmasthan like a highway. Piling or filling a huge mass over a whole corner zone creates a serious defect.
On tilted plots, directions and zones must be read in degrees with a compass. Vedic vastu never says to treat any corner as Ishaan or to accept a direction however tilted it is, and a wrong reading leads to costly and harmful changes.