Glossary

• Agni - the lord of fire, located in the southeast direction
• Aap - water, one of the five elements
• Aakash - space, one of the five elements
• Atman - individual consciousness
• Brahma - the creator of the universe
• Brahmastan - the central courtyard and energy center of the house, the heart of the house
• Dhumam - southeast
• Dwajam - east
• Gajam - north
• Jiva - the soul
• Jyotish - indian astrology
• Kakam - northeast
• Kharam - northwest
• Mayan was an architect and town planner of ancient India
• Mayamata - a treatise on building and architecture, authored by Mayan
• Purusha - consciousness itself
• Parmataman - universal consciousness
• Prana - life force
• Prakriti - nature
• Shrishti - creation of the entire universe
• Simham - south
• Sthapati - a master sculptor/architect of Vastu Science
• Sthapatya ved - the science and art of applying the universal laws of Vastu Science to to towns, buildings and sculpture
  Also: sthapatya veda, sthapatyaved
• Sutregrahi - vedic term for draftsman
• Swanam - southwest
• Takshaka - vedic term for carpenter
• Vaastu Purusha - the energy contained in the Earth
• Vardhaki - vedic term for mason
• Vastu - Derived from the the word "to dwell, live": That which lives forever. If you take the universe and crush it into a drop, that is Vastu: the substance of the universe. It is eternally living.
  Also: vasthu
• Vaastu: what has issued out of Vastu is Vaastu. Vaastu is the manifest Universe: every "thing" in it. Vastu becomes Vaastu. E=mc2 Energy becomes matter: this is the Divine formula
  Also: vaasthu
• Vastu Purusha Mandala - The plan of the layout of a temple or a residential building
  Also: mandala purusha vastu, mandal purush vaastu
• Vastu sastra - science of energy, of energy applied in a vastu
  Also: vaastu shastra, vasthu saastra, vaastu shaastra and other spellings
• Vastudevata (vastupurush) - the energy - or deity - of the premises
• Vasthu Vidya - knowledge of vasthu
• Vidya - Knowledge
• Vedanta - a name for the vedic texts, the Upanishads
• Yrushabham - west