You need your friends and family to stop, stare and admire the stone dancing in your finger or out of your ears. Because of their extraordinary physical properties, diamonds have been used symbolically since close to the time of their first discovery. Perhaps the earliest symbolic use of diamonds was as the eyes of Hindu devotional statues. In Hinduism Indra makes use of Vajrayudham or the thunderbolt as his primary weapon. Vajra is the word for diamond and ayudham means weapon in Sanskrit. In fact there are 14 names counted to be given to a diamond in conventional Hinduism.