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This mudra suggests weapons.

Truthful and beneficient acts are to be represented by this Kapittha gesture. The weapons such as sword, bow, discuss, tomara, lance, club, Sakti, thunderbolt, arrows etc. are also indicated by the gesture.

It is to represent weapons such as sword, bow, discus, javelin (tomara), spear (kunta), mace, spike (śakti), thunderbolt and arrows, true and wholesome deeds.

That type of acting should be done suggesting the holding of a disc or an arrow.

Net, doubt, the tail of a peacock, Srl, to touch, to retreat, outside, back, to descend, to put step - These are the samyuta Kapitthas. There are no asamyutahastas.

Laksmi, Sarasvati, winding, holding cymbals, milking cows, collyrium, holding flowers at the time of dalliance, grasping the end of the robe (celancala), veiling the head with the ancala, offering incense or lights, etc.

churning, Laksmi, offering incense or lights, etc., spreading cow-ries, holding elephant goad or vajra, or a. sling, or cymbals, show¬ing a dance (natya), holding a lotus of dalliance (lilabja dharana), counting Sarasvati’s rosary, pounding barley etc., seizing the end of the robe (celancala), Rsi caste, white colour.

It is used to denote Laksmi, Sarasvati, holding cymbals, milking cows, collyrium, holding flowers at the time of dalliance, grasping the end of robes, gathering of cloth and offering incense or light.

Kapittha hasta is used to denote the following: Lakshmi, Saraswati, winding, holding cymbals, milking a cow, collyrium, holding flowers gracefully, grasping the end of a robe etc., covering the head with a veil and offering incense and light (to gods).

Kapittha hasta is used to denote the following: churning, Lakshmi, offering incense and light, throwing cowries, holding ankuša and vajra, holding a sling, holding cymhar presenting nâtya, holding a lotus gracefully, Saraswari holding a rosary, pounding yāvaka seeds etc., gathering the end of a robe, rshi race, and goura varna.

This Hasta is used to depict affirmation, releasing s disc (wheel) and discharging weapons after meditating (by placing on the forehead).

It is applicable to the act of remembering, taking the cakra, (a wheel shaped weapon of Visnu) and wringing.

It is used to represent an iron rod, sword, mace, the sharp circular miss; weapon (discus), brick, arrow and a spear. It is also appropriate to show breaking with a sharp knife, truth, suitability (belonging to the way) and well being.

An elephant’s goad, a fishing hook, a discus, a hero, a baric art, a great war, truth, falsehood, the sky, a rope, a pillar, chains,

the biting of teeth, the root of a tree, ordinal-} gr.iss, a mace, a toniara weapon, a sword, the vajra weapon, the sakti weapon, a bow,

the string of a bow, the taking up of other arms, killing, money, a sdstra, a clean thing, a Veda, the monkey at the top of a flag,

a hand, a firm mind, enthusiasm, pride, glee, taking up, a light, the languid, a fish, an alligator, a tortoise, the fickle eye of a fish—in these is to be applied Kapittba. Detailed Description of the Subjects of Kapittha Hasta

All the hastas from ‘a rope or noose’ to ‘the fickle eyes of a fish' are to be exhibited by putting Kapittha in the proper shape, in the proper spirit and in the proper place in each case.

one speaks of a fishing hook.

it is an elephant’s goad.

a discus is suggested.

it speaks of a hero. It means a barbed dart. It indicates a great war.

it is an indication of truth.

it is untruth.

it suggests the sky.

It is used in showing weapons such as arrow, bow, discus, spears of tomara and kunta variety, mace, javelin, thunderbolt, and shield, either real or imagined. It also indicates axe, turya and a bhalla [arrowhead]. Some say that either sikhara or kapittha can be used [i.e., interchange¬ably].