Every face has a back
In the classical Vastu tradition a building is not read from its front alone. The mukha — the face, where the entrance opens — always implies a prishtha, the back, lying exactly opposite. The pair is treated as one fact: a house facing east is also a house backing west, and both halves of that statement carry meaning. The face is where the house meets the world; the back is where it rests its weight.
What the audit covers
Enter the facing degree of your entrance. The tool names the mukha direction and computes the prishtha, then describes the traditional character of the pair: what the tradition expects at the face — openness, approach, light — and what it expects at the back — solidity, closure, support. It also flags the mismatches it is designed to catch, such as a heavy, blocked face over an open, hollow back, which the tradition reads as a house standing the wrong way round.
How to use this tool
Measure the entrance bearing from inside facing out, enter it, and read the pair. Then verify the physical facts: is the face genuinely open to approach, is the back genuinely backed — by wall, land or structure? Where face and back contradict their roles, the zone pages for those directions suggest what the tradition would adjust.
FAQ
Q. Is one facing simply the best? The tradition reads every facing as a pair with its back; each pair has its own discipline rather than a single ranking.
Q. My plot's gate and my door face different ways. Which is the mukha? The building's own entrance defines its mukha; read the gate separately in the 32 Gates tool.
Q. What makes a good prishtha? Support — built mass, higher ground or closure behind, rather than a void.
This page explains the traditional principle; it names no specific text.