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