List of Maps and Tables

Map 1  The Kathmandu Valley

Map 2  Banaspati VDC

Map 3  Kholagaun Hamlet

Table 1.1  Sacred geography of the Vastu Shastra

Table 2.1  Association of planets with human attributes

Table 5.1  Marriage rites and their location

Permission to reproduce the following is gratefully acknowledged by the publisher:

Maps 1, 2 and 3: Chris Crothers, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide.

Cover illustration and Figure 1.1 (right) and Figure 3.3, Sri Yantra, Ajit Mookherjee Collection. From Yantra: The Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity by Madhu Khanna, Thames and Hudson, London.

Figure 1.1 (left), Nairatma Mandala, Early Tibetan Mandalas: The Rossi Collection, Rossi & Rossi Ltd, London.

Figure 1.3, Vastu purusha mandala, Vistasp Mehta, bT Square Peg Design Studio.

Figure 1.5, Two spatial configurations of vastu purusha mandala. From Indian Architectural Theory: Contemporary Uses of Vastu Vidya, V. Chakrabarti, Oxford University Press, Delhi.