What it does
Helps decide when a house is unfit and should be left rather than treated.
Where
Front of the house facing a cremation ground
Samagri used
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Cautions
Explanation and notes
Case: an East-facing joint-family home with a correct door but facing a cremation ground; for four years every effort met delays and obstacles. Mercury and mercury nails placed all around gave a little relief, but not full results. Only if Rahu were exalted in the horoscopes of the family, mainly the head of the house, could living there be considered. In the past, before buying a house, families showed it to knowledgeable elders, relatives and neighbours to ask whether it was fit to live in.
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.
Coming out of the main door and reaching the boundary wall gate by moving clockwise forms purna bahu (complete arm) dwar, which completes the purpose of every outing.
Leaving the main door and reaching the boundary wall gate by moving anti-clockwise forms heen bahu dwar, which cuts the results of even a correctly placed door.
When the boundary gate is on one side but the main door is opened at the back, so that one walks around the whole house to enter, the arrangement is prishth bhang dwar and gives no results.
For an auspicious journey or an important meeting, leave the house and first move the vehicle clockwise, even if the road later turns the other way.
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.
N4, E3 and W4 are the Mahalakshmi doors through which Lakshmi enters; a house with all three open sees a heavy flow of money and many sources of income.
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.