Also known ascow dungkandauplacow dung cake
On a full moon day, plaster the floor at the three Mahalakshmi door spots with desi cow dung and draw a rangoli with a small flower.
Desi cow dung (gobar)
Floor at the N4, E3 and W4 spots
A water kalash with five mango leaves and a coconut, set on a cow-dung-plastered spot with rangoli at the Shikhi pad, with white mustard, yellow mustard or pukhraj added by need, makes the yogi Shikhi fulfil the wishes of the residents.
Gobar (cow dung) for plastering
Shikhi pad, E1
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.
Cow dung (gobar)
Over the spot where a bone or a cremation ground lies
When troubles persist and the bed stands in a wrong zone such as SSW or WNW, plaster the floor under the bed with desi cow dung and sleep there; the teacher guarantees good results from ten years of trials.
Desi cow gobar (dung) for lepan
Floor under the bed, in any wrong zone
Sprinkle a little water on the main door threshold every morning and make a rangoli to welcome the Sun. For a wrongly placed door, plaster the ground in front with cow dung daily and make the rangoli in the colour of that zone.
Desi cow dung for lepan
Main door threshold and the ground in front of it
Make round discs of desi cow dung, mark a swastik on each and string them into a bandhanwar for the main door. The teacher calls it his Kohinoor: it ends the defects of a door built in any wrong place.
Desi cow dung, or dung cakes from a gaushala
Main door built on a wrong pada
Removing the bone is not enough; the land needs its rites, just as a house is purified after a death. Do a vastu registry with five coconuts (four corners and the bone spot), remove the affected soil, do agni sanskar with mango wood, ghee and camphor in 16 places and float the ash in flowing water, purify with water and mantra, sprinkle gomutra and plaster with cow dung, put lime and sulphur in the pit, keep a lamp burning there for 24 hours, and mix a little mercury into the soil and the four corners. If the shilanyas had already been done, it is broken and must be redone after purification.
The teacher left it to the students; their suggestions, a mango leaf swastik toran and a toran of cow-dung cakes, were both called correct. He then gave his best (Kohinoor) bandhanwar for any wrongly placed door: make round discs of desi cow dung, draw a swastik on each, fix them on a bandhanwar strip and hang it on the main door, and the defects end. The alternative, a daily desi cow-dung lepan in front of the main door with a rangoli in the colour of its zone, is hard to keep up every day, so the permanent bandhanwar is better.