Long ago Lord Shiva fought against Anthakasura. As it was an intense battle Shiva began to sweat. A man was born out of the drops of Shiva's sweat. He looked big and was very hungry. His hunger never got satisfied. Also he was growing to enormous proportions.
To get his hunger satisfied, he began to make penance to appease Lord Shiva and get a boon from him. Shiva was pleased with his penance and appeared before him. The sweat born got the boon to eat all of the three worlds to get his stomach full.
He got possession on all the three worlds and first he was ready to eat the terrestrial world. All gods, humans, sages and even rakshasas got terrified.
To solve this problem, Brahma sent the ashtadhik balakas(Indra, Agni, Yama, Nriti, Varunan, Vayu, Kubera, Esanyan) to arrest him from all right direction. He was arrested from all sides and pinned down.
Vaastu Purusha asked Brahma as what mistake he did, for it was Brahma who is responsible for appearance and size of all beings.
Brahma listening to his statement considered it and bestowed him to be one with earth, changing his position, once in the months, like that of a rotating fan to all eight directions.
Brahma also told that he would be called as Vaasthu purusha going forward. He also gave permission to tease the people, to your heart's content, who construct buildings and temples, dig wells and tanks on the side towards which you see and in the direction towards which you hold your feet, if they don't pray your before starting any building work.
Since then the worship of Vaastu-Purusha has been in vogue and it has become compulsory for those who want to construct any kind of building.
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