Vishwakarma (विश्वकर्मा)
Architect of the gods. Designer of the cosmos. Pattern-maker.
Vishwakarma — literally "all-doer" — is the divine architect, engineer, and craftsman of the devas. The Rig Veda already names him as the maker of all forms; later texts make him the builder of every famous celestial city, palace, weapon, and chariot.
His asura counterpart is Maya. Where Maya specialises in illusion and dual-use cunning, Vishwakarma is the steady, dharmic builder — civic architecture, instruments that work as advertised, weapons given to the right hand.
What he built
Cities
- Lanka — the original golden city (later seized by Ravana)
- Dwaraka — Krishna's sea-fortress capital
- Indraprastha — the Pandavas' city
- Amaravati — Indra's heavenly seat
- Sudharma — the assembly hall of the gods
Weapons and craft
- The Sudarshana Chakra (Vishnu's discus)
- The Trishula (Shiva's trident)
- The Vajra (Indra's thunderbolt — see also Tvashtar)
- The Pushpaka Vimana (flying chariot)
- The agnyastra and other divine weapons
Amsa flavour — what he does to a planet
When a planet falls in Vishwakarma amsa, the planet "builds something." The matter signified by that planet (and by the divisional chart in question) gets shaped into a durable, designed thing.
| Planet | In Vishwakarma amsa, the native tends to… |
|---|---|
| Sun | Lead a building/engineering organisation; civic architecture, government works. |
| Moon | Design homes, interiors, public spaces; build for emotional comfort. |
| Mars | Civil and structural engineering, fabrication, weapons design, defence works. |
| Mercury | Software engineering, drafting, CAD, technical writing, systems design. |
| Jupiter | Master-architect, urban planner, R&D leader, "build something that lasts" — temples, universities, frameworks. (The user's example: Jupiter in Vishwakarma amsa in D-10 → a builder/developer of large dharmic things.) |
| Venus | Aesthetic design, ornamentation, jewellery, fine craft, luxury products, automotive styling. |
| Saturn | Construction, infrastructure, heavy industry, manufacturing, mining engineering. |
| Rahu | Cutting-edge tech, foreign engineering, novel materials, hacker-builder. |
| Ketu | Reverse-engineering, restoration, sacred architecture, esoteric craftsmanship. |
Where to look for him
Vishwakarma is most directly invoked in the D-10 (Dasamsa) — the chart of work and karma — and in any divisional chart treating making: D-3 (siblings/initiative), D-12 (parents/inherited craft), D-16 (vehicles), D-30 (mishaps and mitigations), D-60.
He is also the patron deity invoked on Vishwakarma Puja (around the Kanya Sankranti, mid-September) by craftsmen, engineers, factories, and IT shops.