वास्तु मण्डन (मण्डन सूत्रधार - गृह, राजप्रासाद, दुर्ग एवं नगर-वास्तु सटीक)

Ch. VII – Dūṣaṇabhūṣaṇāni 181 62-63. A wise person should never make a water-outlet through the door. The front and back part of the door should not be too high or low or frightening. A door should not to be made in such a way as to turn to the left from the front of the house. The pillar, door and wall should not stand in opposition to each other. 64. Thorny, pungent, foul smelling trees, and others inhabited by ghosts should not be planted near a city, palace, or residential building. 65. One should not attach one type of Śālā with another type. One should not consecrate a deity in the Piṇḍaśālā (disjoined house). 66. If the joinings clings to one another and the tenor obstructs the nail (peg), it always indicates the destruction of Dharma, Artha, Kāma, and Soukhya (friendship). 67-68. If a house is built by an ignorant or distressed person with other than the prescribed material or if it is completed quickly by two architects or if a house is built with the material collected from waste, and if the plinth is devoid of a ground plan, the Vāstudeva is dissatisfied. 69. If a house is built without any order, it becomes useless. One must not sleep or take food on supporting floorboards (or ge- nealogical table). 70. A man eating food there suffers monetary loss, and one sleeping there suffers prolonged drowsiness. It is not proper to leave uten- sils, rice and clothing in an open place ( then it brings no good). 71. And in the same place if the food is kept in a broken utensil, the food is cooled by the mouth-wind, the place is covered with dust, it is not visible in the evening or is in the wrong direction, then it brings no good.