What it does
To keep the diagonal energy flow of a plot open.
Where
The four outer corners (vidishas) of the plot at the boundary wall
Samagri used
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Cautions
Explanation and notes
Covered means a huge mass over the whole corner, such as a 15 ft high mound or a stone fill 35 to 40 ft long. A 2 ft high chabutra in the South-West, the walls of a small house, wardrobes or a small landscaped bed are not covering; the trouble starts when the whole zone, for example the entire South-East area, is buried. The rule applies to the corners of the total land at the boundary wall, not to covered areas inside an industry. Case: on a tilted industrial plot, a boulder fill about 35 to 40 ft long and 22 ft wide was put in the West corner on another consultant's advice. It suppressed the zone of Saturn, and the industry ran at a loss until it neared closure. Vedic texts mention the covering of corners as a defect.
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.
A bone buried in a plot is the biggest land defect (shalya). It changes the chemistry of the surrounding soil, becomes a home for spirits and slowly destroys the peace, health and business of whoever builds there.
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.
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.