Vansha Lines

The lines beneath the padas

On the sixty-four-pada layout, the classical Vastu tradition records more than cells and their crossings: six long lines — the vansha lines — run diagonally across the grid, and the sensitive marma points sit where such lines meet. Like the marma points themselves, the lines are treated with restraint: what stands directly on them is weighed more carefully than what stands beside them.

What the tool shows

The tool lays the eight-by-eight grid over your plan at your north angle and draws the six vansha lines exactly as the practice records give them, in grid units. Tap any point and the reading places it against the lines: which line is nearest, and how far the point sits from it in cells. The drawing adds nothing of its own — the geometry is reproduced as recorded, and the classical basis appears with the result.

How practitioners use this

Vansha lines are read together with the marma points, almost always in the same sitting. Practitioners trace each line across the plan, note the built elements that ride on it — walls, columns, stair flights, heavy fixed storage — and mark the stretches that deserve lighter use. In the client report the vansha drawing sits beside the marma chart as a pair, issued under the practitioner's own name.

Frequently asked questions

Are vansha lines the same as the grid lines?

No. The grid's rows and columns bound the padas; the six vansha lines run diagonally across them, on their own recorded paths.

How do they relate to the marma points?

The thirty-two marma points lie at recorded crossings on the same layout; the lines give the paths, the points give the crossings.

Does a wall on a line condemn the house?

No. The reading flags it for attention and grading — the tradition's response is care and adjustment, not alarm.

Free to read, licensed to run

This page is open to all readers in English and Hindi. Drawing the six lines over your own plan and reading points against them runs with the Practitioner licence.