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Holding downwards, it suggests traveller walking, etc. Holding upwards suggests mountain summit, etc. By the two fingers (second and middle) walking in broken steps is also suggested.

This hand with face downwards indicates walking along the road; decorating the feet colouring them or dancing. With the finger pointing upwards the hand represents biting, blowing of horn or painting of a picture.

When the fingers in the hand are turned towards different directions (or different modes of folding) jit represents falling down, dying, transgressing, reverting, cogitating and depositing of some (valuable) thing.

This hand is employed by persons conversant with it either as Saṁyutakaraṇa (with both the hands joined) or as Asaṁyuta (disjointed) in regard to black antelope, Camara deer, buffalo, divine elephant, bullock, ornamental gateway and peaks of mountains.

This [hand with its fingers] pointing downwards will represent showing the way, decorating the feet or dying them, and the crawling [of babies]. With fingers pointing upwards it will represent biting, horn and letters. And when the fingers in it are turned differently (i.e. the middle finger is bent backwards) it will represent falling down, death, transgression, reversion, cogitation and putting [anything] in trust.

And with the two such (saṃyuta) hands or one such (asaṃyuta) hand should be represented an antelope, yak, buffalo, celestial elephant (airāvata), bull, gate (gogūra) and hill-top.

It should be done for indicating walking on the road, cutting and falling.

Sin, weariness, Brahmin, fame, forehead of an elephant, house, observing austerities / holiness / purity, bank, dynasty, hunger, to hear, to eat, pregnancy, symbol of summing up, hunting, you [addressing an equal or one above], 

word, difference in time, plural, we, man, face, verbal or physical expression amounting to hatred, child, mangoose - these meanings are shown by Kartarimukha. 

separation of woman and man, opposition or overturning, stealing, the cor¬ner of the eye, death, disagreement, lightning, sleeping alone, falling, a creeper.

red paint for the feet (padalaktaka), drawing patterns on the body, yearning of separated husband and wife, overturning or opposition, Madhava, lightning, sleeping alone, buffalo, deer, fly-whisk, hill-top, elephant, bull, cow, thick coil of hair, Ksattriya caste, copper colour, scissors, tower.

It is used to denote the separation of a man and a woman, overturning or opposition, plundering, a corner of an eye, death, estrangement, lightning, sleeping alone during separation, falling and weeping.

Kartarīmukha hasta is used to denote the following: separation of woman and man, opposition or overturning, stealing, corner of an eye, death, disagreement, lightning, reclining alone with pangs of separation, falling, creeper

Kartarī hasta is used to denote the following: applying red paint on the foot, falling down, reading what is written, yearning of separated wife and husband, over turning or opposition, Vishņu, lightning, sleeping alone, buffalo, deer, fan, hill-top, elephant, bull, cow, comb, man of Kshatriya race, copper colour, scissors and tower. Once upon a time, when Siva set out to slay the demon Jatādhara, He drew a circle at the centre of the earth with His forefinger and that is the origin of the Kartaríhasta (as suggested by the sage).

this indicates some argument or showing the teeth.

It is faced downwards and used to paint the feet, etc. An upright glance, horns, etc. are expressed with this. The kartarīmukha can also be used to depict a person reading a reply.

An eye, looking, a horn, a foot, a road, unsteady movement transgressing, a book, placing, the painting of the feet,

controversy, a painting, death, a violent change, the heavenly Ganga, bashfulness, dissolution,

massage of body, a knife, a sin, anger, ugliness, a forest conflagration, the month of Sravana, the Dvapara age,

a curved thing, a braid of hair, a chain, a variegated thing, the plastering of sandal paste, etc., different styles of hair dressing, a hit, a waist-band with small tinkling bells, a bird,

a jingling ornament of the anklet, the stars, a part of a thing, a garden, wealth, a house all of creepers, a flower-bud, fever, movement of a procuress of lovers,

love-making, the separation of lovers, a boat, a horse, the movement of boats or horses, the sight of very rare objects,

fear, an ear-ring, inverted union, rest, happening, words of women, other writings,

a disease, a quarrel, a knot, seals, etc., an arch, boldness, disputation, a saw, etc.,

a little cut, break with a friend, the fear of abortion of a woman, the counting of days of conception of a woman, a marriage, a couple,

a mass saying ‘There is’, a chariot, a cart, a wet thing, the beloved, a blue thing, a yellow thing, rasa, laughter, a little shivering, menstrual discharge—in all these subjects I prescribe the hasta named Kartarimukha

it is the eye or looking (sight) that is considered as shown according to scholars.

it speaks of the horns of buffaloes, etc., and buffaloes, etc.

they speak of the feet.

it means a road.

it stands for walking with unsteady steps.

it means a transgression.

it would speak of a book. 

it just means the placing of a thing.

it means painting the feet.

it means pondering over a controversial matter.

it means death.

it means a violent change.

it means the divine Ganga.

it means bashfulness.

it is dissolution of creation.

it suggests squeezing of the body (of feet, etc.).

it denotes a knife.

it means a sin, it means anger, and it means the ugly.

it is forest conflagration.

it means the month of Sravana.

it speaks of the Dvapara age.

it means a curved thing.

it indicates a dressed up braid of hair—a source of intellectual pleasure to Subhahkara.

it shows a necklace.

it means a variegated thing.

we have to understand the plastering of sandal paste, etc., in those places.

it means different styles of hair-dressing.

it means hitting.

it indicates a waist-band with small tinkling bells.

it means a bird.

it means the jingling ornament of the anklet.

it means stars.

it stands for a part of a thing.

it means a garden.

it means wealth.

it is a 'creeper house’.

it means a flower-bud.

it means fever.

it means union—a sweet thing fixed by Bharata.

it is separation of lovers.

it stands for a boat, it means a horse, and it means the movement of both.

it means the sighting of a rare object.

it indicates fear.

it is an ear-ring.

it means inverted union.

it means rest.

it means a piece of writing something happening, or women’s words in a writing.

it means disease, it means a quarrel.

, it denotes a knot, it means a seal, or it means an arch.

that would be an indication of courage.

that means a scriptural disputation.

it would suggest a saw, etc., it speaks of a little cut, of break with a friend.

it indicates fear of abortion.

it counts for the third day of conception.

it indicates the sixteenth day of conception.

it indicates full conception.

it speaks of a marriage.

it means a couple.

they mean a mass of objects.

it says, ‘There is’.

it means a chariot, and it means a cart.

it means a wet thing.

it means a beloved.

it means a black thing. ||

it means rasa.

it means laughter.

that indicates a slight tremble.

it means menstrual discharge.

in discussing journey and in painting the feet [with lac].

To indicate viewing

to indicate reading a book.

to indicate horns.