HOW TO CHECK DIRECTIONS MAHAVASTU

11 . DIRECTIONS HOW TO CHECK

It is now time to acquaint the students with the

various directions. Most of the people find it difficult to

even identify the North, South, East and West

directions. To make it easier for them the following is

suggested.

Stand in the centre of the plot and face the early rising

Sun. You are now facing East. Raise your left arm to

shoulder length. It is now pointing towards North. Raise

your right arm like wise. Your right arm is now pointing

towards South. Your back is where the

West is.

If the road is already formed and the buildings are

coming up in line with the road the above directions are

sufficient to proceed further. If however the lay out is

not made, or in a farm house, or in a Industrial plot one

has to take the help of a Magnetic Compass.

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The Compass can be a hand held one of approximately

2" dia. If you examine the compass you will find the

following words marked in a circular scale graduated

to 360 Degrees.

In the Compass 'N' stands for North

S-for South, E for East &W for West.

NE -stands for North East, SE for Southeast,

NW for Northwest and SW for Southwest.

Thus there are eight lines passing through the centre

and the angle in between any two is exactly 45

Degrees.

How to use the compass to find north

Stand approximately in the middle of the plot. Clean up

an area of about 6" X 6" and level it. Take caution that

there should not be any magnetic field in the

centre while using compass. Place the compass on

this spot. You will find that the compass has a needle at

the centre, one end of which is marked in red. The needle

swings and oscillates for a while

before coming to rest in some particular direction. Now

slowly turn the compass so that the letter marked 'N'

lies right below the red marked needle. Now the needle

is exactly aligned on the North South Axis and the red

marked end points to the Magnetic North.

Where the road is already formed and your plot is one

of the plots on the road then check whether the sides

of the plot align with the magnetic axis. When you

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rotate the compass after the needle comes to rest and

locate the magnetic North as explained above, see

whether the sides of your plot are in line with the axis.

If not. Rotate the compass gently so that the bisector

of your plot lies on the letter 'N' the difference in de-

grees between the needle marked red and the letter "N'

in the compass gives the deflection of the plot in de-

grees. If the deflection is with in 1 Degrees then you

may proceed as there was perfect alignment. It the

deflection is very high then it is better to find the

direction and zones as diagonal plots.

A. Direction of a plot can be determined by any of the two modern simple methods by using a compass, the device for finding direction which has a freely moving needle which always points to the magnetic North. make two lines crossing each other dividing a paper in four equal parts at 90-degree angle. Place a compass on paper in the middle of your plot and align it with two lines in the North and the South of the needle of the compass. Extend these lines on the plot and mark it to have exact direction.