Left thumb — fire (agni)

Anatomical-left hand

The anatomical-left thumb mirrors the fire locus on the opposite hand. Bilateral duplication reflects the use of either hand or both hands in mudrā practice; it is not a claim that the two hands carry different elements.

Right thumb — fire (agni)Right index — air (vāyu)Right middle — ether (ākāśa)Right ring — earth (pṛthvī)Right little — water (apas)Left thumb — fire (agni)Left thumb — fire (agni)Left index — air (vāyu)Left middle — ether (ākāśa)Left ring — earth (pṛthvī)Left little — water (apas)

Point 6 of 10 in Mudrās — Hand Element Circuits (मुद्रा)

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Vasant Lad, Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing (secondary)

Hand-mudrā section, five-element finger correspondence; thumb is assigned to fire in the convention used here.

Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā (primary_canonical)

Chapter 3, Mudrā-prakaraṇa (verses 1–126), documenting mudrā as a yogic seal and gesture practice.

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