When a house stands at a dead-end road or on a T-junction, or both, the eight auspicious symbols (ashtamangal) are fixed facing it, preferably in silver, or as a framed portrait.
For the last house of a colony at a dead end, a painting on the end boundary wall showing the road continuing with houses on both sides opens the path; the image changes the mind and stuck work moves.
Dead-end boundary wall facing the road; closed North or East walls
A main door on an auspicious pad still fails when the route to the gate is wrong, when there is any vedh in front, when the house faces a cremation ground, or when the door is out of plumb.
Never select a plot at a dead end, such as the last house of a colony, town or lane, especially when high boundary walls close it in, and never select one on a T-junction.
An obstruction in front of the main door counts as vedh only within twice its reference height; for a 7 ft main door, anything within 14 ft is a vedh, and beyond double the distance it is not.
Pits, wells, drains, poles, big trees, garbage, a road hitting the door or a long-vacant house in front of the main door each bring a specific harm, from disease to loss of lifespan.
In flats and dense areas, a door facing the main door, a lift right in front, stairs going down in front, or the corner of another building pointing at the door all create dwar vedh.
When the main door of the building and the boundary wall gate stand face to face in one line, the arrangement is utsang (sammukh) dwar, the best door coordination in any direction.
Main door and boundary wall gate opposite each other in one line
The earth element has a square shape, golden yellow colour, South-West location and brass as its metal; land energy, plot shape, slope, surroundings, POP plaster and the dehleez represent it.
A picture changes the mind, so a painting can create a dosh. A painting of a tree, mountain, river, road or pillar facing the main door acts as a dwar vedh, water scenes do not belong on South, West or SW walls, and mountain scenes do not belong on the North wall.
Walls facing the main door; South, West, SW and North walls
Even an N4 door fails if it leans, has holes, stands at a dead end, is reached from the back of the house, or is obstructed by a pit, tree, pillar or T in front. Such defects (dwar dosh and dwar vedh) cancel the good of the pada.
A main door must not face a T-junction or a temple, must not open straight onto an open courtyard and must not have another door above it. All doors should be at one level, and the main door needs a porch and decoration.
When does a main door built on a correct pad still not give proper results?
When the route to the boundary gate is heen bahu (anti-clockwise) or prishth bhang (circling the house), when there is any dwar vedh in front such as a T-point, shool vedh, pole, tree, pit or garbage, when the house faces a cremation ground, or when the door is out of plumb and leans inward or outward. In any of these cases even doors on N3, N4, E3, E4, S4 or W4 do not give their results.
Is it a dosh if the lift is to the side of my flat door rather than directly in front?
No. A lift creates dwar vedh only when it is exactly in front of the main door, where it obstructs luck and delays work. Its remedies are taught with the other remedies.
My house covers the whole 200-square-yard plot. Its only door opens on N3-N4, but an underground water tank lies right after the entrance. Will this door give its good results, and which door counts as the main door?
No door gives results, however good its pada, if it suffers a vedh such as a pit, tree, T-junction, pillar or column at the door. Here the energy entering through the door falls into the pit of the tank, so close that tank. When the whole plot is built and you enter through one door, that is the main door; generally the main door is the one through which you reach inside the house after the gate. A door made at the back after circling the house (prishtha bhang dwar), or one you leave anti-clockwise, also fails to give full results, even on N4.
Yes, if there is a dead end it can be made in a flat too, but first see what needs opening. If a direction such as the North or East is completely closed, it can also be opened this way.