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## The Jain Image: A Guide to Proper Installation and Worship
**Verse 38:** A large-bellied image brings illness, a thin-chested one causes heart disease, a limbless one destroys offspring, and one with dry shanks brings harm to kings.
**Verse 39:** A footless image destroys people, a waistless one destroys vehicles. Knowing these defects, one should worship a Jain image free from flaws.
**Commentary:** If an image has a crooked gaze, it brings financial ruin, widespread opposition, and various fears to the creator. A downward gaze leads to the loss of a son, an upward gaze to the death of a wife, causing grief, anxiety, distress, and financial ruin. A peaceful image brings good fortune, offspring, and peace. Never create a flawed image, as it brings misfortune. A Rudra-like image destroys the owner, a thin-bodied one depletes wealth, a shrunken-limbed one destroys the family, a flat one brings sorrow, an eyeless one destroys eyesight, a mouthless one steals pleasures. A large-bellied one brings illness, a thin-chested one causes heart disease, a limbless one destroys offspring, and one with dry shanks brings harm to kings. A footless image destroys people, a waistless one destroys vehicles. Knowing these defects, one should worship a Jain image free from flaws.
**Verse 40:** One should install an image according to one's capacity and the teachings of the Guru. One should worship a stable or movable image.
**Commentary:** Install an image according to your ability and the guidance of your Guru. Establish a stable or movable image and worship it.
**Verse 41:** An image suitable for home worship should be no larger than twelve angulas (finger widths), starting from one-eighth of a yava (barley grain) in size. Never worship an image larger than this in your home.
**Commentary:** The size of a home image should be at least one-eighth of a barley grain and at most twelve angulas (one span). Do not exceed this size.
**Verse 42:** Never worship an image larger than a vitasti (span) in your home.