Your home, read room by room, direction by direction.

No. Vastu is a Max feature. The full reading, the live compass, the Vastu Purusha Mandala and the room-by-room guide open with a Max plan; on a Free or Pro plan the page shows an upgrade prompt instead. The "Ask Panditji about my home" button inside the Vastu page opens chat in the same Max-gated Vastu mode. A Vastu question typed into ordinary chat is answered as normal chat, without the rule checker or citations.

At minimum, the direction of your front entry, your kitchen and at least one bathroom — or a floor plan photo, which covers those on its own. You can also add the master bedroom, the pooja room, stairs, heavy storage, water sources, whether the centre of the house is clear, and a note on what you want addressed. It reads a home or an office.

Yes. From a photo or screenshot of the plan it identifies the entry direction, kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms (master versus children or guest), pooja space, stairs, heavy items, water sources and whether the centre is open. If the plan shows a north arrow it uses it; if not, it assumes the top of the image is north. Anything you pick by hand overrides what it read from the picture.

A dosh is a placement that goes against the Shastra — a kitchen in the north-east, a toilet in the north-east, a main door in the south-west. A single reading checks your layout against 31 core placement rules — kitchen, bathrooms, entry, pooja room, bedrooms by who sleeps in them, stairs, heavy items, water and whether the centre is clear. Save a home and place two or more rooms, and the whole house is read against the full 134-rule table, including how rooms interact. Each defect is marked severe, moderate or mild, cited from the Manasara and Brihat Samhita wherever the corpus holds a passage on it (the rule set itself is checked against the Manasara, Mayamatam, Brihat Samhita and Samarangana Sutradhara), and paired with up to three remedies — move, add, ritual, colour or structural, each with a priority, small additive fixes favoured over structural ones unless the defect is severe.

Through your Kundli. Your ascendant (lagna) has a ruling planet, and that planet has a direction — that direction becomes the most auspicious quadrant for your chart. The lord's natural friends add supportive directions; its enemies mark the inauspicious ones. Then the defects are re-weighed: a moderate defect sitting in one of your auspicious directions is softened to mild, and a defect in an inauspicious direction is raised a step. The reading and the PDF both carry this section, so the same floor plan reads differently for a different chart.

Not for the reading — a floor plan or the guided form works from anywhere. The live compass is for when you are there: it uses your phone's orientation sensor to lock the house facing while you stand at the main door (iOS asks permission first). On a desktop with no sensor, the page says so and lets you pick the facing by hand. Homes you set up are saved in that browser, and once two or more rooms are placed you can read the whole house together.