What it does
A clean, balanced Shikhi pad gives residents far-sightedness, new ideas, a calm stable mind, quick decisions and premonition of coming events.
Where
E1 pad, 39.375 to 50.625 degrees from North, outer pishach bhoomi at the North-East corner
When
Its 45-minute period ends at 3:00 am, before sunrise; awake in the Shravan month
Samagri used
Cautions
Explanation and notes
Nature: a mahayogi. The sun does sadhana all night and first projects its energy on E1, which is why dawn light appears about 48 minutes before sunrise; the land becomes yog bhoomi. Element water, planets Jupiter and Moon, item kesar; its seat in the body is the brain. Like Shiva it is so sensitive that any disturbance opens its third eye: anger, fire and accidents. Governs vision, far-sightedness, firm resolve, high thinking, quick decisions, a calm and stable mind, playfulness and foreknowledge of good and bad events. It is a guru who lives by nyay niti (justice and principle). Burying the item it likes at the pad keeps it established permanently (the exact item was not clearly audible). Defect signs: mind block, no ideas, vision, routine or purpose, no monitoring in business, children unable to memorise, tiredness; anger, fire and accidents; illness of the brain down to the throat such as migraine, vertigo and dementia, and weak eyesight.
Parjanya, the cloud and rain devta (megh, badal) at E2 next to Shikhi, brings rain, productivity and fertility and fulfils plans and wishes like a kalpavriksha. It is the doctor of crops, people and animals.
A quick manual method to divide any plan into the concentric bhoomis of the 81-pada grid by multiplying the centre-to-corner distance by 0.33, 0.55 and 0.77.
After the bhoomi rings are drawn, the outer ring is cut into 32 pads of 11.25 degrees each, starting with Som devta centred on North, and the middle ring into 12 inner pads with an 18-54-18 degree split for each direction.
During Shiva's battle with Andhakasura a drop of his sweat produced a starving mahabhoot; devas and asuras laid him face down and 45 devtas sat on him, creating 45 places with separate functions on every plot. Brahma made him his manas putra and promised that whoever occupies land would remember and feed him.
Both grids hold the same 45 vastu devtas, but the 81-pada mandala is used for homes and business premises while the 64-pada mandala is used for temples, villages, palaces (raj mandir), towns and city gates.
The biggest pooja, havan and sthapana of the 45 devtas should be done at garbh vinyas or shilanyas, while the devtas are on open ground and can receive their samagri at their own pads; the building is then raised over them.
In earlier times, after garbh vinyas and the plinth beam, builders left the work for a season of about three months so that the sun, moon, 27 nakshatras and 9 planets could fully act on the newly acquired and worshipped land.
Each of the 32 outer devtas holds a 45-minute period of sadhana, so together they complete the 24 hours. Havan, offerings and jaap done in a devta's own period wake and activate it quickly.