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This is used for beckoning, sending away, saluting, etc. With the hand placed on the forehead it suggests putting on a crown, etc., or for touching auspicious objects. It is used for wiping tears. Swastika formed with both hands is to salute elders.

Invocation, stepping down, dismissal, obstruction, gaining access, lifting up, bowing down, observing similarity, putting out alternatives and suggestions, touching holy and auspicious objects or placing them on the head, wearing the turban or any head gear or putting on the crown, covering the nostril, mouth or ear etc are represented by this gesture.

To represent the appearance of an ascetic the hands are to be raised with the palms averted from each other. When the palms are kept facing each other it represents a doorway.

Capering gambol of monkeys, surging of the waves, the wafting wind and the moving men are to be represented in a dance with this gesture by those who are adepts in gesture.

The hand should be kept with the thumb stretched forward when crescent moon is to be shown. The hand turned towards the back indicates the march of men (against enemies).

 represents the flight of small birds, tortuous flow of a streem, wriggling movement of as make and fluttering of bees etc.

Wiping off of the tears, applying the Tilaka on the forehead, smearing of Rocanā and touching of the forelocks hairs

The salutation to an elderly person is to be shown. For the representation of a marriage caremony the same with tips touching one another is to be employed.

When the hands are separated and moved from this position they indicate a royal personage. The Svastika formation carried out obliquely indicates the seeing of a planet.

represent the submarine fire or battle or the appearance of sharks.

It is to be used in representing invocation, descent, bidding goodbye, prohibition, entrance, raising up [anything], bowing [in salutation], comparing, suggesting alternatives, touching [the head with] auspicious objects or putting them on the head, putting on a turban or a crown and covering the mouth or the ears. This very hand with its fingers pointing downwards and moving up and down is to be used in representing flight of small birds, stream, snake, bees and the like. And with the third finger of the Tripatāka should be represented wiping off tears, drawing a Tilaka or Patralekhā and touching of hairs.

Two Tripatāka hands held like a Svastika represent adoration of the feet of venerable persons (guru). Two such hands are to meet each other’s end for representing marriage. Separated and moved to the forehead they indicate a king. When obliquely forming a Svastika they represent planets. To indicate an ascetic they arc to be raised with palm turned forward. To represent a door they are to face each other. Submarine fire, battle and sea-monsters are to be indicated by two Tripatāka hands, first raised near one’s face and then moved with the fingers pointing downwards. With these very hands should be indicated jumping of monkeys, waves, wind and women. To show the crescent moon this hand should put forward its thumb, and to indicate a king’s march [against his enemy] this hand should turn itself towards the back.

It should be used in calling a person and also in the acting of a crown. When fingers are moved, it indicates small birds.

With that Anāmika (ring-finger) the tears are wiped off. To indicate auspicious touch it should be put on the head.

It should be also used for covering the ears. It should be used by a person lying on the ground with face raised, for the acting the movements of serpents and the bumble-bees, (Bhramaras).

The sunset, 'etc.', expression to address/to accuse a person, drinking, body, to beg are the samyutahastas. There are no asamyutahastas.

a crown, tree, vajra weapon, the bearer of the vajra (Indra), screw-pine flower, light, rising flames, cheek, patterns drawn on the face or body (patra-lekha), arrow, turning round, union of woman and man.

invocation, descent (avalaratta), lifting or bending down the face, touching auspicious things, hook, site (khala), disre¬spect, doubt, crown, tree, Vasava (Indra), vajra, stroking the hair, lamp, marking the brow-spot, tying a turban, applying strong scents, closing the nose or ears, rubbing-down a horse, arrow, screw-pine flower, patterns drawn on the face or body, the flight of certain birds, tongues of flame, Ksattriya caste, red colour.

It is used to denote a crown, a tree, the vajra (thunder bolt of Indra), and the bearer of vajra (Indra), the ketaki flower, a lamp, raising flames, a pigeon, patterns drawn on the face or breast (patralekha), an arrow, and turning round.

Tripatāka hasta is used to denote the following: a crown, vaira, Indra, këtaki flower, lamp, flames, cheek (pigeon Ghosh), drawing of patterns, arrow, turning round or change, union of woman and man.

Tripatāka hasta is used to denote the following: invocation, welcoming, descent, lifting the face, bending down/saluti touching auspicious things, recognition, disrespect, known doubt, crown, tree, Indra, Vajra, stroking the hair, lamp marking tilaka, wearing a turban, covering the nose on hearing strong smell, covering the ears on hearing harsh voices, rubbing down a horse, arrow, Ketaki flower drawing patterns on cheeks and chest, flight of certain birds, rising of flames, Kshatriya caste, red colour.

It is used in drying the tears, showing the shape of forehead, touching the things and in ācamana (taking a drop of water during ritual).

It is used for invitation of deities, alighting, salutation, picking up, touching sacred ingredients, entering etc. Generally, the names of the hastas bear meanings based on significance.

Welcome, incaranation, abandoning, warding off, entry, revelation, salutation, exposition,

addressing, the exposition of the feet, thighs, etc., the touching of auspicious objects, thought, etc., sleep,

the binding of a truban, the putting on of a coronet, small birds, their movements, a little current of water.

a small serpent, a black-bee, the tusks of an elephant, rending open, cutting, flying insects, a gad-fly, a mosquito,

the wiping out of tears, the painting of tilaka marks on the forehead, putting on gorocana, setting up of locks on the forehead,

a man keeping both his hands up, a king, a house, a door, a man practising penance, the fire burning under the ocean, a crocodile, an alligator,

a monkey, killing, waves, the Malaya breeze, a woman, the thin moon, a wheel of a chariot, a Brahmana,

a Ksatriya, a Vaisya, a fish, the rays of the Sun and the moon, a pair, equals, reddish-dyed dress of a mendicant,

air breathed through the nose, the trident of Siva, Garuda, the beak of a bird, a bimba cherry,

a curved beam fixed at the top of a house, an arch, a mass of things, fat birds, the teeth, sweet words, bitter taste,

a sour thing, a hot thing, a sweet thing, an astringent thing, a salted thing, the month of Phalguna, madhuparka (honey-mixed offering),

the wife of a sojourner (prositabhartrka nayika), Balarama,—in all these objects Tripataka hasta is to be owned. 

it stands for welcoming a person.

it denotes an incarnation; it means the abandoning (of worship, etc.).

it means warding off. Tripataka indicates entrance in the place of its demonstration.

it stands for revelation.

it is salutation.

it means exhibiting an object.

it is addressing a person.

it means those limbs.

it means touching of those auspicious objects.

it means pondering, etc.; it also means sleeping.

it indicates the binding up of a turban.

it is a crown.

it picturises a small bird.

it means the downward flight of small birds.

it speaks of the current of a small mass of water.

it pictures a small serpent.

it is a black-bee that is thus depicted.

it indicates the two tusks of an elephant. If the left Tripataka is pushed at its base by the right Tripataka,

it means cutting a thing.

it means flying insects; it means a gad-fly; it means a mosquito.

it means the wiping. of tears.

it means painting a tilaka mark on the forehead.

it depicts the putting on of gorocana.

it means the short curls of hair on the forehead.

it means a man ever keeping his two hands up.

it is a king.

it means a house.

they indicate a door.

it means one engaged in penance.

it indicates the fire burning under the ocean. It speaks of a crocodile. It denotes an alligator. It suggests a monkey.

it means killing a person.

it indicates small waves.

it denotes a breeze blowing from the Malaya mountain.

it is taken by scholars to mean women.

it is a crescent moon.

it is the wheel of a chariot.

it is a Brahmana.

Tripataka signifies a Ksatriya.

stands for a Vaisya. If Tripataka, facing downwards, is slowly moved from one side to the other,

it is the rays of the Sun and the moon.

 it means a couple. It denotes equals.

it means the dark-dyed dress of a mendicant.

 it means air breathed through the nose.

it stands for the trident of Siva.

it is Garuda.

it is a bimba fruit.

it means a curved beam fixed at the top of a house. It means an arch.

it means a big mass of things. If Tripataka is moved up from one side to the other,

it means the teeth. If Tripataka is brought near the upper and lower lips,

it stands for the bitter taste.

it means acrid taste. It means saline taste.

it is sour taste.

it means the month of Pbalguna.

means madhuparka (honey-mixed offering).

it is a prositabbartrkd nayika (a woman with her husband abroad).

it denotes Balarama.

This is applied in touching auspicious objects such as yoghurt and others.

The [tripatāka] hand is [also] used to move a lock of hair by holding the [same] lock.

In calling [someone]

in salutation.

to indicate tears

to wipe away tears.

to indicate putting on a tilaka [mark on the forehead].

is used in lifting the face up.

in [expressing] doubt.

To indicate abandonment and indifference,

Wearing a turban is indicated

indicates putting on a crown.

to indicate respectively a bird, a stream and gentle breeze.

[To mimic smelling] bad odours and in hearing bad words arid noise

To indicate marriage,

to indicate worshipping the guru's feet.

On seeing the king,

In viewing a house

In looking at a renunciate

while showing a door.

To indicate a woman

to indicate fire of the nether region, a scorpion or a crocodile.

To indicate the moon in the first quarter,

To indicate the wheel of a chariot