Vāstu — the science of dwelling · door 4 of 10
The eight guardians
Each direction and the devata who protects it
Match the sky
0 of 6 matchedTap one on the left, then its partner on the right.
Three questions to seal this door
1. Who guards the north?
2. The south-east belongs to —
3. Īśāna guards which direction?
The rishi's scroll — read more, if you wish
Each of the eight directions has its guardian, the dikpāla: Indra the east, Agni the south-east, Yama the south, Nirṛti the south-west, Varuṇa the west, Vāyu the north-west, Kubera the north, and Īśāna the north-east. Brahmā holds the centre.
The guardian tells you what a direction is for. Īśāna, a form of Śiva, makes the north-east the place of worship and clean water. Agni's south-east takes the hearth. Kubera's north is the place of the treasury. Vāyu's north-west is movement. Nirṛti's south-west is the heavy, stable corner.
Jyotiṣa adds a graha to each direction: Sūrya the east, Śukra the south-east, Maṅgala the south, Rāhu the south-west, Śani the west, Candra the north-west, Budha the north, Guru the north-east. That is how a chart and a house can be read together, and VEDAUM's Vaastu page uses exactly this table.
The tables on this page are drawn from the same data VEDAUM reads charts with.