What is the significance of the Vaastu Purusha?
A. The ‘Vaastu Purusha’ is said to be the spirit of the site. It’s in the form of a human male and lies on the site with his head towards the east, his posture fitting exactly in a square. It was easier to get the anthropometrically and aesthetically correct dimensions of rooms, doors windows and even the structural members like plinth and pillars. Even the interior planning was governed by the posture of the ‘Vaastu Purusha’ and the norms which specified where and how the structure must be built, so that it does not injure him.
