Rules for the house a patient under treatment lives in, given first among the patient's good conduct because it matters most and set out with the rules of building (vāstu). It should stand in an auspicious direction and place, be protected by mantra, yantra and tantra rites, be kept swept, lit, scented and decorated, be guarded and entered only by tested people, be free of draughts, holes and defects, and hold equipment and good medicines.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- वेश्मविधान
- Hindi
- रोगी के रहने का मकानगृहनिर्माण विधान
- English
- The patient's house
Ingredients and preparation
निवातनिशिच्छद्रमपेतदोष-मासौासोपस्करभेषजाढच्यम्॥ आपूर्णवर्णोजवलकर्करीभिरलंकृतं मंगलवास्तु शस्तम्॥ 21॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 7 · p. 94 · v. 18-21.What the text says
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Regimen5
Before anything else the commentary describes, with the rules of building, the house fit for the patient to live in, because it is said to matter most.
The house should be built in a fit (auspicious) direction and place, and within the chief direction in its best part.
It should be protected by mantra, yantra and tantra rites performed by scholars who know the old lore of mantras and yantras.
The house should always be swept, lit with lamps, scented with incense and hung with garlands of flowers, pleasing, guarded by watchmen, and screened so that only suitable men and women enter.
It should not be exposed to much wind or have holes or defects, should have many implements and the best medicines at hand, and be adorned with fine pictures and bunches of flowers; such an auspicious house is commended.
Questions and answers
How should the patient's house and bed be arranged?
The house should be in an auspicious place, protected, clean, guarded and stocked with medicines; the bed new, wide and curtained, with the patient lying head to the east or south.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 7
- Extraction tasks
- T07
- Record id
- method_rogi_griha_p166