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This mudra suggests the sense of ‘small, little, delicate’, etc.

With the end throbbing slightly this hand should be used to indicate exquisitely fine, small loose and light things. Exit and Softness too can be displayed.

It with the slightly throbbing end is used specially to indicate fine, small, loose, lightness, exit, and softness.

It should be used to show slimness, lightness, fragility and softness.

Glance, softness, dust, white, blue, red, mercy / pity / compassion, group of hair (as a line),

beginning of rain, hair, line, the three folds of the abdomen are the meanings shown by this hasta.

tying the marriage thread, initiation, certainty, hor¬ripilation, painting (citra-samlekhana), gad-fly, drop of water, raising the wick of a lamp, rubbing (metal on a touchstone), examining things, drawing lines, carrying garlands, signifying “Soham” (That am I), metaphor (rupaka), saying “No!”, indicating things to be examined by rubbing, accomplishment of a task.

instructing in wisdom, ritual (puja), demonstration of a thesis (nirnaya), offering sesamum, speaking, reading, singing, meditation (dhyana), demon¬strating bhava, applying wax, horripilation, pearl, gem, sound of the flute, gathering together (samyutta), smell, own self, drop of water, taking aim, seal-ring, kissing, Brahmana caste, white colour.

Blessing or festival, the tying with thread, ascertaining instruction, horripilation, pearls, putting forward the wick of a lamp, a touchstone, a jasmine, a painting, the act of paint¬ing, and a dyke impeding a current.

Haṁsásya hasta is used to denote the following: benediction, tving a thread or tying Mangalasūtra, initiation, certainty, horripilation, pearl etc., extending the wick of a lamp, rubbing on touchstone, jasmin flower etc., picture, painting, gad fly, dam or drop of water

Additional usages in Nida’s version: carrying garlands, signifying Sõham', metaphor, saying 'no', and accomplishment of a task.

Haṁsásya hasta is used to denote the following: instruction in wisdom, ritual or worship, decision, offering sesame, speaking, reading, singing, meditation, interpreting a bhāva, applying red paint etc., horripilation, pearl, playing on flute (when two Haṁsāsya hastas are joined), smell, ownself, drop of water, taking aim, seal-ring, brahmin race and white colour.

This Hasta when moved slightly is used to depict smoothness, smallness and softness. To depict the act of smelling flowers the Hasta is kept steady,

It is used to indicate the shape of a lentil dough, nuts, and oil massage, etc.

It is used in its original form to show slenderness, softness, littleness, crushing, throwing and those objects with slight movement.

The lower lip, kissing, drinking, ambrosia, plastering, sandal paste, Agar wood, musk,

camphor, saffron, milk, butter, clarified butter, oil, the red dye, an odour, sniffing, breathing,

different kinds of pulverised things, dust, bitter taste, granthiparna odour, the meaning of ‘There is’, a campaka flower, a malati flower, a mallika flower,

vermilion, collyrium, looking, hurry, an offering to a crow, ears, the beak of a cuckoo or pigeon,

a goose, a peacock, Garuda, the sarika bird, the cuckoo, the parrot, the cakravaka bird, the cakora bird, the khanjana bird, the sarasa bird,

the kalahamsa bird, the rajahamsa, other birds, an ant, a gadfly, an insect, a mosquito,

a rat, a scorpion, the fire, itching, a child, a light thing, the heart of a tree, ornament, pleasure, coughing,

the husk of paddy, a thing made of lac, the dregs of a liquid, cinnabar, yellow arsenic, other general dyes,

a smooth thing, a soft thing, a sweet thing, pulsation, a small quantity, a loose thing, sentiment, the main substance of a subject, the pith of a matter, the beak of a goose, a dusty thing, words,

a festival, the mind, the heart, life and honey—in all these subjects is Hamsasya Pasta prescribed by me. Detailed description of the Subjects of Hamsasya Hasta

it indicates the lower lip. It also means kissing.

it suggests drinking.

it means ambrosia.

it means besmearing of sandal, etc. It also indicates the subjects beginning with ‘sandal paste’ and ending with ‘saffron’.

Subhaiikara Kavi calls that milk.

it stands for butter, clarified butter, oil or the red dye.

it indicates a scent, the nose, breathing.

it would mean a powder of some sort or some dust.

it would mean bitterness.

it means granthiparna.

it means, 'There is’.

it would be a campaka or Malati or mallika flower.

it indicates vermilion.

it would mean looking or collyrium.

 that indicates hurry. 

it would mean offering to the crows (kakabalf).

it means the mind.

the dance pundits would take it to mean the heart or life.

it means honey.

it also is honey.

it indicates [something] thrown out, [or]

it indicates [something] loose, little, and light.

to indicate [collecting] pearls or picking flowers.