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Vastu Mantra

वास्तोष्पते प्रति जानीह्यस्मान्स्वावेशो अनमीवो भवा नः । यत्त्वेमहे प्रति तन्नो जुषस्व शं नो भव द्विपदे शं चतुष्पदे ॥

Also known as Vastu Purusha Mantra

In Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and English — with the meaning of every word, and the one syllable most people pronounce wrongly.

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What the Vastu Mantra is

The Vastu mantra printed here has two layers. The first is Rigveda 7.54, a hymn of three verses in trishtubh metre from the seventh mandala, the family book of the seer Vasishtha, addressed to Vastoshpati, whose name means lord of the dwelling. Each verse opens by calling him by that name. The first asks him to recognise the family as his own, to give them a good place to settle free of sickness, and to be kind to the two-footed and four-footed members of the household alike. The second asks him to carry them forward, swell their cattle and horses, and cherish them as a father cherishes his sons. The third asks for his company and his guard over the household. The second layer is a later couplet, the Vastu Purusha namaskara, which is not part of the Veda and has no known author. The Vedic verses are printed without accent marks; chanting them with the svaras is learned from a teacher.

From Vasishtha's hymn to the house rite

Following the old index of the Rigveda, Sayana introduces hymn 7.54 as a tricha, a set of three verses, by Vasishtha to Vastoshpati; the next hymn, 7.55, calls on the same deity in its first line. Sayana, the fourteenth-century commentator, records how the verses left the hymnal and entered the household: for the smarta rite of building a house he cites the Ashvalayana Grihya Sutra (2.9.9), which has offerings poured into the fire with the verse beginning prati janihy asman. In the Vedic hymn Vastoshpati has no body and no story; he is a guardian addressed as a friend and called indu, which Sayana reads as one who gladdens like Soma. The figure of Vastu Purusha belongs to a later age. The Matsya Purana tells that a being was born from a drop of sweat from Shiva's brow during the battle with the demon Andhaka, and that his hunger could not be stilled until the gods held him to the ground, after which every building site became his to be honoured. The Agni Purana tells it more briefly, as a great being the Devas buried in the earth, and names an offering to him when a house is finished. Accounts differ on the details. The namaskara printed after the hymn joins the two strands: it calls the Vedic Vastoshpati the lord who rests upon the earth.

The mantra, in six scripts

DevanagariSanskrit & Hindiवास्तोष्पते प्रति जानीह्यस्मान्स्वावेशो अनमीवो भवा नः । यत्त्वेमहे प्रति तन्नो जुषस्व शं नो भव द्विपदे शं चतुष्पदे ॥

Tamilவாஸ்தோஷ்பதே ப்ரதி ஜாநீஹ்யஸ்மாந்ஸ்வாவேஶோ அநமீவோ பவா நஃ । யத்த்வேமஹே ப்ரதி தந்நோ ஜுஷஸ்வ ஶம் நோ பவ த்விபதே ஶம் சதுஷ்பதே ॥

Teluguవాస్తోష్పతే ప్రతి జానీహ్యస్మాన్స్వావేశో అనమీవో భవా నః । యత్త్వేమహే ప్రతి తన్నో జుషస్వ శం నో భవ ద్విపదే శం చతుష్పదే ॥

Kannadaವಾಸ್ತೋಷ್ಪತೇ ಪ್ರತಿ ಜಾನೀಹ್ಯಸ್ಮಾನ್ಸ್ವಾವೇಶೋ ಅನಮೀವೋ ಭವಾ ನಃ । ಯತ್ತ್ವೇಮಹೇ ಪ್ರತಿ ತನ್ನೋ ಜುಷಸ್ವ ಶಂ ನೋ ಭವ ದ್ವಿಪದೇ ಶಂ ಚತುಷ್ಪದೇ ॥

Malayalamവാസ്തോഷ്പതേ പ്രതി ജാനീഹ്യസ്മാന്സ്വാവേശോ അനമീവോ ഭവാ നഃ । യത്ത്വേമഹേ പ്രതി തന്നോ ജുഷസ്വ ശം നോ ഭവ ദ്വിപദേ ശം ചതുഷ്പദേ ॥

EnglishRoman transliterationvāstoṣpate prati jānīhyasmānsvāveśo anamīvo bhavā naḥ | yattvemahe prati tanno juṣasva śaṃ no bhava dvipade śaṃ catuṣpade ||

“O Vastoshpati, lord of the dwelling, recognise us as your own; give us a good place to settle and keep it free of sickness. Whatever we ask of you, grant it to us gladly, and be a blessing to our two-footed and our four-footed ones.”

वास्तोष्पते: vāstoṣpate — O lord of the dwelling
प्रति: prati — in turn, toward us
जानीह्यस्मान्स्वावेशो: jānīhyasmānsvāveśo — recognise us; (be) of good settling
अनमीवो: anamīvo — free of sickness
भवा: bhavā — be
नः: naḥ — for us
यत्त्वेमहे: yattvemahe — what we ask of you
प्रति: prati — in return
तन्नो: tanno — that, for us
जुषस्व: juṣasva — accept gladly
शं: śaṃ — welfare
नो: no — to us
भव: bhava — be
द्विपदे: dvipade — for the two-footed
शं: śaṃ — welfare
चतुष्पदे: catuṣpade — for the four-footed

Vastu Mantra lyrics in full

The three Vastoshpati verses of Rigveda 7.54, printed without accent marks, followed by the Vastu Purusha namaskara.

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Verse 1

वास्तोष्पते प्रति जानीह्यस्मान्स्वावेशो अनमीवो भवा नः ।
यत्त्वेमहे प्रति तन्नो जुषस्व शं नो भव द्विपदे शं चतुष्पदे ॥

O Vastoshpati, lord of the dwelling, recognise us as your own; give us a good place to settle and keep it free of sickness. Whatever we ask of you, grant it to us gladly, and be a blessing to our two-footed and our four-footed ones.

Verse 2

वास्तोष्पते प्रतरणो न एधि गयस्फानो गोभिरश्वेभिरिन्दो ।
अजरासस्ते सख्ये स्याम पितेव पुत्रान्प्रति नो जुषस्व ॥

O Vastoshpati, bright one, be the one who carries us forward and swells our household with cattle and horses. In your friendship may we not grow old; cherish us as a father cherishes his sons.

Verse 3

वास्तोष्पते शग्मया संसदा ते सक्षीमहि रण्वया गातुमत्या ।
पाहि क्षेम उत योगे वरं नो यूयं पात स्वस्तिभिः सदा नः ॥

O Vastoshpati, may we keep company with you in a gathering that is kindly, joyful and full of progress. Guard what we hold dear, both in times of rest and in times of striving; and you gods, protect us always with your blessings.

Prarthana 1

वास्तोष्पते नमस्तेऽस्तु भूशय्यानिरत प्रभो ।
मद्गृहे धनधान्यादिसमृद्धिं कुरु सर्वदा ॥

O lord of the dwelling, salutations to you, master who lies at rest upon the earth. Always make my home rich in wealth, grain and every kind of plenty.

The syllable people get wrong

Vāstoṣpate is often said as "Vastu-pate", but the word is vāstoḥ, of the dwelling, joined to pate, O lord, and the visarga turns into the retroflex ṣ. Say it VAAS-tosh-pa-tay, with a long first vowel and the sh made with the tongue curled back.

When the Vastu Mantra is chanted

Festival. Griha pravesha and Vastu shanti

Questions

The three verses that begin with vastoshpate are. They form hymn 54 of the seventh mandala of the Rigveda, ascribed to the seer Vasishtha and addressed to Vastoshpati, the lord of the dwelling. The short couplet printed after them, vastoshpate namaste'stu, is a different matter: it is a traditional ritual verse, not found in the Veda, with no known author. It is printed in the same house-warming prayer sets, so the two are often taken as one.

Not in origin. Vastoshpati is a Vedic deity known only from a few hymns, a protector of the house addressed as a friend, with no myth attached. Vastu Purusha is the figure of the later Puranas and architectural texts, a being held to the ground whose body is mapped onto the building site. Ritual practice brought the two together, and the namaskara printed here shows the joining: it uses the Vedic name, vastoshpate, but calls him the lord who lies upon the earth.

Some collections print a longer Vastu Suktam. It keeps the three verses of Rigveda 7.54 and adds the first verse of the next hymn, 7.55, which begins amivaha vastoshpate, and a verse from the eighth mandala, 8.17.14, which begins vastoshpate dhruva sthuna and speaks of the firm pillar of the house. The text given here is the Vastoshpati hymn itself, 7.54, in full, with the namaskara after it.

The line pahi kshema uta yoge asks Vastoshpati to guard the family in both. Sayana, the classical commentator on the Rigveda, explains kshema as keeping safe what has already been gained, and yoga as attaining what has not yet been gained. Read that way, the verse asks for protection over what the household already holds and over what it is still working towards. The same verse ends by turning to all the gods: protect us always with blessings.

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