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Vastu Shanti Havan

वास्तुशान्ति होमVāstu-śānti HomaThe fire rite that settles a dwelling and the ground it stands on

Performed before or alongside griha pravesh. The vastu purusha mandala is drawn, the directional guardians are named, and the fire is offered at the centre of the house.

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₹11,000
Duration
3 hr – 7 hr
Languages
en · hi · bn · mr · gu · ta · te · kn
Performed as
At Your Home · At a Temple in India · Guided by Video
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Why this ritual

What the rite is for

The vastu purusha mandala is a square grid laid over the plan of a dwelling, with a presiding figure imagined lying across it and a devata assigned to each cell. The rite names those devatas one by one and offers to them, beginning at the north-east and closing at the brahmasthana, the open centre. In practice the pandit walks the house before the fire is lit: he looks at where the entrance falls, where the kitchen and the water are, and where the heaviest walls sit, and the sankalp is composed to name the plot, the structure and the family that will live in it. Where a feature sits awkwardly against the classical scheme, the tradition does not ask you to move a wall. It asks for the observance, and for the house to be occupied with attention rather than in haste. Nothing here is a claim about what a building will do to the people inside it.

Textual basis

Where it comes from

The mandala and its devatas are set out in the Mayamata and the Manasara, and the shanti homa that accompanies it follows the Grihya paddhati for any pratishtha — punyahavachan, kalash sthapana, matrika and navagraha sthapana, then the vastu ahuti and purnahuti. Regional practice differs on whether the rite precedes griha pravesh or is folded into it on the same morning, and on whether a kalash is buried at the brahmasthana. In the south the corresponding observance is generally performed as part of the grihapravesham itself. Your pandit follows the paddhati of your family.

Vidhi

The rite, step by step

Timings are approximate and vary with the pandit's paddhati.

Samagri

What the vidhi calls for

And why each item is used.

  • Nine grains

    900 g

    One grain stands for each graha — wheat for the Sun, rice for the Moon, tur for Mars, moong for Mercury, chana for Jupiter, white beans for Venus, sesame for Saturn, urad for Rahu and horse gram for Ketu.

  • Nine cloths

    9 piece

    A coloured square for each graha, laid beneath its grain on the vedi.

    Included in the kit

  • Palash samidha

    2 bundle

    Palash is the wood prescribed for the shanti homas. It is rarely available outside India, and the kit carries it.

    Included in the kit

  • Havan samagri

    2 kg

    Included in the kit

  • Cow ghee

    1 kg

  • Copper kalash

    5 piece

    One for the brahmasthana and four for the corners. Copper is preferred, brass is accepted.

  • Coconut

    6 piece

  • Mango leaves

    1 bundle

    Included in the kit

  • Rice flour for the mandala

    500 g

  • Turmeric

    100 g

  • Nine metals set

    1 piece

    Small pieces of the nine metals placed with the grahas. In many families a set is buried at the brahmasthana with the kalash.

    Included in the kit

  • Kalava

    2 bundle

Packages

What differs between tiers

Stated plainly: the counts, the number of pandits, and the time it takes.

  • Essential

    The mandala, the kalash and a havan of one hundred and eight ahuti.

    ₹11,000

    Duration
    3 hr
    Pandits
    2 pandits

    Included

    • Walking the house and composing the sankalp
    • Vastu purusha mandala and kalash sthapana
    • 108 ahuti

    Not included

    • Navagraha sthapana

    at home · guided

  • Traditional

    Most chosen

    The full vidhi with navagraha sthapana and one thousand and eight ahuti.

    ₹21,000

    Duration
    5 hr
    Pandits
    3 pandits

    Included

    • Everything in Essential
    • Matrika and navagraha sthapana
    • 1,008 ahuti
    • Kalash water carried through every room
    • Photographs of the rite

    at home · in india · guided

  • Complete

    Vastu shanti and griha pravesh performed together on the same morning.

    ₹51,000

    Duration
    7 hr
    Pandits
    5 pandits

    Included

    • Everything in Traditional
    • Griha pravesh with the threshold kalash and the boiling of milk
    • Navagraha shanti ahuti for each graha
    • Annadana for fifty-one
    • Full recording of the rite

    at home · in india

Who performs it

Pandit requirement

Two pandits at minimum — one to conduct the puja and one to keep the fire. Three where navagraha sthapana is included, and five where griha pravesh follows in the same sitting.

Questions

What families ask

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