Veedhi shoola means a road spear: a road whose line runs straight at a plot, most often the stem of a T-junction. Say which side of your plot the road’s line meets and how far along that side, and this checker finds the half of the side it strikes, the popular rating for that half, and the square of the 32 entrance padas the line meets. It also reads the one classical verse near the subject. The plain answer comes first: the term and its ratings were not traced to the verses read for this site, and the nearest verse says a road opposite the gate does no harm farther away than twice the house’s height (Brihat Samhita 53.76).
How it works
You choose the side of the plot, then measure along it from a named corner to the point where the middle of the road, carried straight on, would meet your boundary. The count runs the same way as on the entrance checker: the east side from the north-east corner southwards, the south side from the south-east corner westwards, the west side from the south-west corner northwards and the north side from the north-west corner eastwards. Only the share of the side counts, so any unit will do.
Popular manuals divide each side into halves and name a road spear by the half it strikes, which gives eight positions. Our veedhi shoola page records one broad pattern. A road striking towards the north-east, on the northern half of the east side or the eastern half of the north side, is rated favourable. A road striking towards the south-west, on the western half of the south side or the southern half of the west side, is the least favoured. Towards the south-east or the north-west, the manuals disagree on which half is which. The checker uses exactly that, labelled as popular.
The pada is found with the entrance checker’s own count, so the two tools always agree. It matters only for a gate that stands where the road’s line meets the wall.
If your gate is in line with the road and you give the distance from the gate to the mouth of the road and the height of the house, the checker compares the distance with twice the height, as the verse does. The verse says “beyond”, so a distance exactly equal to twice the height is not beyond it.
Reading the result
The first line names the half the road strikes and its popular rating. For example, a road meeting the east side 3 units along a side 12 units long is a quarter of the way from the north-east corner: the northern half, towards the north-east, which the manuals broadly rate favourable. For a house 8 metres tall, twice the height is 16 metres, so a road mouth 20 metres from the gate is beyond the verse’s distance and one 12 metres away is within it.
A road that meets a side close to its middle is flagged, because a small error in measuring could move it into the other half. A road that meets the exact middle is shown with both readings.
Where traditions differ
The verse and the manuals ask different questions. The verse, 53.76, is about what stands directly opposite the gate: a road, a tree, a street corner, a well, a pillar or a gutter. A road aimed at a blank wall, with no entrance in line, falls outside its wording, and the verse sets a distance beyond which the road does no harm. The manuals rate the side and the half the road strikes, whether or not a gate is there, and treat distance differently from one to another.
It is this site’s own observation that the manuals’ pattern mirrors the modern grading of directions, north-east good and south-west poor, which suggests the ratings grew out of that general scheme rather than from a separate older rule. We cannot prove it.
What it does not do
It does not forecast anything, and it does not ask you to move. The junction is fixed. What a road aimed at a gate actually brings is glare, noise, runoff and a small traffic risk, and each has an inexpensive answer: a solid wall or dense hedge at headlight height, a drain channel across the gateway, bedrooms on another side and, when building, a gate offset off the road’s line. Moving the gate is the change closest to the verse.
The Brihat Samhita’s own answer to an obstruction that cannot be removed is planting, so a row of non-thorny trees or a hedge across the line of approach follows the text. Mirrors, pyramids, metal strips and yantras sold as corrections are not in the verses read for this site, and this site recommends none of them. See roads around your plot and remedies without demolition.
Frequently asked questions
↳ What is veedhi shoola?
A road spear: a road whose line runs straight at a house, usually the stem of a T-junction ending at the plot. The term is commonly taught but was not traced to the classical verses read for this site.
↳ Which veedhi shoola is considered good?
Many manuals rate a road striking towards the north-east, on the northern half of the east side or the eastern half of the north side, as favourable. This is commonly taught and was not traced to the verses read.
↳ Which is the least favoured?
A road striking towards the south-west, on the western half of the south side or the southern half of the west side. Towards the south-east or the north-west, the manuals disagree.
↳ What does the classical verse say?
Brihat Samhita 53.76 lists a road, a tree, a street corner, a well, a pillar and a gutter directly opposite the gate as a cause of misery, and says none of them harms the house when it is farther away than twice the house's height.
↳ Why does the checker show a pada?
Because a gate in line with the road stands in one of the 32 entrance squares, and moving the gate off the road's line moves it to another. The checker uses the entrance checker's own count, so you can see both before building.
↳ Do mirrors, pyramids or yantras fix a T-junction plot?
None appears in the verses read for this site, and all are modern additions. This site makes no claim that they work and recommends no product.