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It suggests the sense of ‘little’ and also used when children’s face is held up by chin.

Insignificant fruits of diverse kinds, angry retorts of women etc. are represented by this hand when the fingers are kept moved.

By this are to be represented immature fruits of various kinds and angry words of women.

With the help of this kind of hand fruits should be denoted.

lakuca-iruit, breast of a young girl, white water¬lily (kalhdra), partridge, areca-nut, little bells, pill, cataka.

grapes, rudraksa seeds, holding the chin, breast-bud (kuca-praroka), areca-nut, bells, blue lotus, fruit, coral, a mouthful, asterism (naksalra), jujube fruit, circle, partridge, cataka, any¬thing small, hailstone, Siddha caste, myrobalan fruit, gold.

It is used to denote lakuca fruit, bells worn by children, any other bell, a partridge, a betelnut tree, a breast of a young girl, a white water-lily, the cataka bird and the coconut.

Kāngula hasta is useful to denote the following: likuca (=lime) fruit, breast of a young girl, white water -lily, patridge, betel-nut tree, little bells, pill etc., cātaka bird.

Lāngūla hasta is used to denote the following: grapes, rudraksha seeds, holding the chin, nipple of a breast, betel nut, bells, blue lotus, fruit, coral, a small ball of food, star, badari fruit, cirle, jāsmin flowers etc., patridge, câtaka bird, anything small,balls of snow, siddha race, chebulic myrobalan fruit (karakkaya), and gold.

This Hasta is used to depict different types of fruits, small quantities and caressing the chin of children,

It is used to show the oven, cat and small breast.

This is used to brush the chin of children, to show a trivial matter and a new fruit. The fingers of this must be in the process of going apart to represent angry words of women.

Kamadeva, a pearl, a gem, emerald, a bead, ruby, sapphire, quartz, a seal,

a ring, a moon stone, a sun-stone, diamond, a coral, a woman’s rage, a small thing,

a plum, a citrus fruit, a lemon fruit, a ksirikd fruit, a karamarda fruit, an arecanut, other small fruits,

a preparation of betel-nut, a kiss, eating, union with the newly wed wife, the breasts of a young girl,

an arecanut tree, a star, an assemblage of planets, a tender thing, the fleet of a peacock, etc., the feet of a cat, etc.,

a bakula flower, a mallika flower, a nagakesara flower, a sweetmeat ball, etc., a pore of the skin below an hair, an eye, a nose, the lower part of the cheek, eyebrow,

a nail (of the hand), a thumb, the small finger, etc., the front, a characteristic regret, the compassionate, compassion, the beautiful,

gladness of the heart, etc., wailing, embracing, the meaningless, the unfruitful, interdiction, blank space, flowers in general, a red-dye-painted foot,

holding by the chin, a fire-fly, an ornament of the ear, a fly, a gad-fly, the sound of an anklet with tinkling bells—in these Kangula is applied.

All the subjects from ‘a tender thing’ to ‘the sound of an anklet with tinkling bells’ are to be exhibited as they look fine with Kangula.

it is Kamadeva.

it means all the subjects from 'a pearl’ to ‘a coral’.

it is a woman's wrath.

it stands for a small thing, and for the subjects from ‘a plum’ to ‘other small fruits.'

it speaks of a preparation of betel-nut, a kiss and eating.

it means union with the newly wed wife.

it means the breasts of a young girl.

it is an arecanut tree.

it is a star, or an assembly of planets.

to indicate the three [sacrificial] fires.