Ūrṇanābha
Asaṃyuta Hasta - Single Hand Gestures
Descriptions and Meanings
9
The five fingers of Padmakosa are bent.
9:
It is used to suggest catching (a female) by the hair, scratching the head and so on.
9:119-120
In the Padmakosa hand fingers are further bent. This is called Urṇanābha because it resembles a spider.
9:121-122:
Tne Urṇanābha hand is usually employed, to represent the combing of the tresses, receiving stolen property, scratching the head, the fell,disease of leprosy, lions, tigers and holding a stone.
9:119-120
Ūrṇanābha (spider)—the fingers of the Padmakośa hand [further] bent.
9:119-120:
It is used to represent holding one by hair, receiving stolen goods, scratching one’s head, skin disease, lions, tigers and such other animals, and seizing a stone.
1
If the fingers are held in the form a spider the hasta in known as Urnanabha.
1:
Horse, fruit, tiger, butter, snow, very / many / all superlatives and lotus are shown in this hasta as samyuta. There are no asamyutahastas.
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Ūrṇanābha (spider): the fingers of the Padmakosa hand are bent. It originates from Narasimha when he was tearing the body of the Daitya (Hiranyakasipu). Its sage is Sardulaka, its race Ksattriya, its colour blood-red, its patron deity the Primal Tortoise (Kurmavatara of Vishnu).
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scratching the head, theft, Narasimha, face of a deer, lion, monkey, tortoise, karnikara, breast, fear, Ksattriya caste, blood-red colour.
7:438-441
When the fingers of Padmakosa hasta are bent, it becomes Urnanābha hasta.
7:438-441:
Ūrṇanābha hasta is used to denote the following: scratching the head, theft, Narasimha, face of a deer, lion, monkey, tortoise, karnikāra flower, breast, fear, kshatriya race, blood red colour.
4:1184-1186
Urṇanābha: The fingers of the Padmakōṡa Hasta including the thumb are bent.
4:1184-1186:
This Hasta is used to depict taking objects like gold, a lion, tiger and scratching the head,
7:53
Ūrṇanābha: When the fingers are twisted in the padmakośa hasta, it is Ūrṇanābha hasta.
7:53:
This shows leprosy, the lion, and scratching the head, etc.
2:166
Fingers of the padmakosa hasta, when bent exaggeratedly form ūrṇanābha.
2:166:
This is used to scratch the head,
2:167:
The stone used to even out abrasions, theft, holding hair, etc, indicating leprosy, and chin. While showing carnivorous animals, both hands must be crossed.
:49
If all the fingers in Padmakosa are bent, it becomes Ūrṇanābha hasta.
:560:
The scratching of the head, a lion, a tiger, a monkey, the paws of a tiger, etc., the rending of a heart,
:561:
a bear, etc., a demon, etc., stone, the handling of a stone, a brick, a clod of earth, the taking up of a clod of earth in the hand,
:562:
a particular disease, theft, catching by the hair, the man-lion incarnation, and enjoyment,—in these is Urnanabha prescribed by me.
:563
If Urnanabha is brought over the hair on the head,
:563:
it suggests scratching of hair.
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:563
If the two Urnancibbas are moved obliquely to near the ears with the eyes squeezed up,
:563:
it means a lion. It means a tiger.
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:564
If the right Urnanabha is brought near die right cheek with the shoulders squeezed up,
:564:
it stands for a monkey.
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:565
If Urnanabha, facing down, is held up at the front,
:565:
it indicates the paws of a tiger, etc.
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:565
If the two Urnanabbas are brought together over the heart and are then separated,
:565:
it means rending of the heart asunder.
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:566
If Urnanabha, is given a dreadful appearance, while moving it to the right;
:566:
it bespeaks a bear, etc., or a demon, etc.
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:566
If Urnanabha is held near the mouth,
:566:
it means a block of stone.
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:566
If the two Urnancibbas are raised up,
:566:
it means the raising a block of stone.
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:567
If the riglit Urnanabha, facing up,
:567:
is moved to the right, it indicates a brick; it means a lump of earth; it means also the picking up of brick, or of a lump of earth.
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:568
If Urnanabha takes up the shape of a garland,
:568:
it suggests some disease.
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:568
If the right Urnanabha touches the palm of the left Pataka and then it is jerked off to a distance,
:568:
it suggests theft.
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:569
If Urnanabha is held near the hair,
:569:
it means catching one by the hair.
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:569
It the two Urnancibbas are placed together,
:569:
with the neck turned round, it is the Man-Lion incarnation of Visnu. If Urnanabha is taken round with glee with the eyebrows turned up,
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7:93
Bending [further] fingers and thumb of padmakoṡa is ūrṇanābha.
3:417-418
That is urnanabha where the fingers are well bent and separated.
3:417-418:
This is used to indicate leprosy, and in holding rocks etc. It is [also] used to scratch the head
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3:417-418
and [it is] placed on the chin
3:417-418:
to indicate a lion or a tiger.
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