The following are the different shapes of plots and their suitability and effects

1. Square (all corners straight and at 90°) shaped = Very auspicious, brings health,wealth and happiness.

2. Rectangular Shaped = Good and auspicious. Brings all round prosperity.

3. Circular Shaped = Good for constructing circular Shaped buildings only.

4. Wheel Shaped = Owner loses financial status and faces poverty.

5. Odd Shaped (irregular shaped) = Causes all types or problems and poverty.

6. Triangular Shaped = Affects progress and causes problems from government.

7. Bhadarshan Shaped = Not good for residence. Can be used for special type of buildings like government buildings only.

8. Cart Shaped = Causes wants and poverty, even imprisonment. The owner has to run here and there like a Cart.

9. Long bar Shaped = Not good if used for cattle shed, the cattle reared here perish.

10. Damru shaped (a tiny size musical damru with deep bend in the middle) = Will have very bad effect on the eye sight of inmates. Also everyone in the house will lose discretion fright judgement.

11. Visham Bahu (disproportionate shouldered) = Affects health, involves in mates in court litigations, drives them to poverty.

12. Drum or Dholak or Mirdung Shaped = Will cause loss of wife and other female members of the family.

13. Hand-Pan Shaped = Creates loss of wealth, cattle etc. This can be corrected and used if other aspects conform to Vastu principles.

14. Varahan Mukhi Akaar (pig faced Shaped) = Causes death of brothers and relatives.

15. Turtle shaped plot = Causes to the owner and his family members imprisonment, untimely death and murders.

16. Window shaped plot (used for hand winnowing to separate grains from chaff) = The inmates of this plot lose mental peace and face poverty.

17. Bow shaped plot = Inmates of this plot face fear of theft, loot, attack by enemies etc.

18. Muslakar plot (long oval like plot with cut in one side) = It brings enmity and loss of friendship.

19. Hexagon shaped plot = This is considered good if all other Vastu principles are followed. Is said to be helpful in progress of family members.

20. Ellipitical plot (a regular oval shaped) = Loss in many ways like money, women and respect.

21. Polygonal plot (Panch Mukh) = Such plot should not be inhabited before making it a rectangular plot otherwise it will bring legal litigations and false allegations.

22. Octagonal (Astha Kon) plot = Is auspicious and will bring all round prosperity.

23. Pot type plot = People who live on this plot face problems and obstacles for progress.

24. Simha Mukh (lion faced) like a lion's face wider in front = Not good for residential purposes. Is very auspicious for business organisation.

25. Gaumukh (cow faced) like a cows face narrow in front = Auspicious provided the roads are in Southern and Westeren sides of plot.