What it does
To clear the soil chemistry and spirit influence left by a buried bone so the land can be built on and used safely.
Where
The spot where the bone was found, the surrounding soil, and the four corners of the plot
When
After the bone has been dug out and before construction or use
Samagri used
Cautions
Explanation and notes
When a person dies in a house, the whole house is purified, and the land where a bone lay needs the same rites; if they are skipped, the land will bring a teesra (death rite) to the owner instead. Agni sanskar is the biggest purification. This is the short method; the 16 sanskars can be added later. Just as all unbaked clay pots in a house are broken after a death because of sutak, a shilanyas done on such land falls under sutak and must be redone. Hundreds of cases are known where building on such land without purification ruined the owners.
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.
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.