If it cannot be moved
A kitchen in the south-west puts fire in the earth corner, which the tradition reads as instability in the household’s foundation. The remedy is to move the hob within the room towards the south-east and keep the south-west wall heavy and closed.
What the ನೈಋತ್ಯ governs
The south-west — Nairutya — is the earth corner: the heaviest, most grounded part of the plan. It is where the tradition puts what should not move, which is why the master bedroom and the structural mass belong here and water does not.
Where the ರಸೋಈ belongs
The kitchen is fire, and fire has a corner. Of all the rooms this is the one where the tradition is least divided and most emphatic, which is also why a kitchen in the wrong corner is the fault people most often ask how to fix.