What it does
Shows which East padas are safe for the main door and what each one brings.
Where
Main door on the East side, from the North-East corner to the South-East corner
Cautions
Explanation and notes
E1 (Shikhi devta): the most sacred spot; shoes and slippers entering there provoke Shikhi, who produces fire, so the risk of fire rises. E2: favours females; often more daughters are born and women dominate the house, though not in every case. E3: abundant wealth; before sunrise the rays here carry minerals, vitamins and a gold composition, so a well-decorated two-shutter door brings plenty of money; the best of all East doors. E4: government support, help from everyone, partnerships and respect. E5: anger, aggression and blood pressure, but it is the administration door, good for IAS, IPS, military and other officers who must keep authority. E6 (Satya devta): tall talk, boasting, lying and manipulation. E7: makes even good people cruel. E8: fear of theft and fire; a grain grading plant with this door suffered repeated thefts, which stopped once the door was closed.
The main door is the door of fortune: like the two nostrils it draws nature-given positive energy into the whole house and lets negative energy out. Its two shutters stand for ida and pingala, the two breaths that alternate roughly every hour.
Design the main door like a face: two shutters as the nostrils, two small niches as the eyes, two jharokhas as the ears, an Om or swastik as the tilak, and the threshold and upper frame as the lips. Ancient texts say such decoration multiplies the power of the main door many times.
Divide the 360 degrees around the centre of the house into 32 padas of 11.25 degrees each, one for each of the 32 guardian devtas of the outer ring, named E1 to E8, S1 to S8, W1 to W8 and N1 to N8. The pada in which the main door falls tells its result.
In the South only S4 (Grihakshat) gives happiness, peace, prosperity and business profit. S2, S3, S5, S6, S7 (the debt door) and S8 bring lack of children, servitude, suffering, selfishness, debt and disease.
In the West, W4 (Pushpadant) showers wealth and W5 (Varun) also gives wealth, while W1, W2, W3, W6, W7 and W8 bring short life, overspending, loss of money, government trouble, disease and a destructive mind.
In the North, N3 brings sons and wealth, N4 (Bhallat) is the best of all 32 doors with windfall wealth, and N5 gives wealth with dharma and fame. N1, N2, N6, N7 and N8 bring suffering, enemies, family stress, faults in women and poverty.
Large business doors and shop shutters often span two to four padas. When the favourable pada, for example S4, is fully included and open, the door gives the results of that pada.
E3, N4 and W4 are the three vipul sampada (abundant-wealth) doors. Virtual doors marked on these padas are heavily promoted, but they give only a tiny fraction of the result of an actually opened door.