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The Asana mandala
The series that began with a single undivided pada ends at one hundred. Asana's cells are small enough to resolve fixtures, door leaves and column faces — detail the coarser grids can only gesture at. At this density the grid stops being a diagram of the house and becomes a measuring instrument laid across it.
The grid and its centre
The tool draws the hundred padas over your plan at your north angle and reads any tapped point by pada, ring and direction. On the centre it is strictly honest: the drawing marks the central two-by-two, as the drawing convention does for even grids, while the practice records do not fix the size of the centre on this grid — and the result says exactly that instead of inventing a rule.
How practitioners use this
Practitioners use Asana late in a project, when the plan is nearly frozen and questions become inch-level: which pada a door hinge or a fixed altar actually occupies, how far a wall face strays across a cell boundary. It is also the verification grid — a final fine-pass over decisions first made on the coarser mandalas.
Frequently asked questions
Why is the centre handled so carefully here?
Because the records leave the centre's size open on this grid; the tool shows the drawn convention and states the gap rather than filling it.
Is finer always better?
No — a grid should match the question. Asana rewards detail work and overwhelms early-stage decisions.
What closes the series after one hundred padas?
The recorded series ends at ten-by-ten; beyond it the tradition refines reading, not division.
Free to read, licensed to run
This page is open to every reader in English and Hindi, so the Asana mandala can be studied freely. The interactive calculator — which lays the grid over your own plan at your north angle and reads any point you tap — runs with the Practitioner licence.
The classical basis appears with each calculation result, quoted from the practice's source records.