Abhinaya-darpana (English)
by Ananda Coomaraswamy | 1917 | 16,981 words | ISBN-13: 9788121500210
The English translation of the Abhinaya-darpana (“the mirror of gesture”) by Nandikeshvara: an encyclopedic manual of the art of gesticulation. It belongs to a wide range of literature known as Natya-shastra: the ancient Indian art of dramatic performance, theatrics, dance and music. The Abhinaya Darpana is an abridgement of the Bharatarnava, a m...
Plate VII - Hands of Images
Plate VII.A. Buddha
Seated in lalilāsana, the right hand tripatāka,
left hand holding stalk of lotus.
(Javanese, ninth to eleventh century.) (British Museum)
Plate VII.B. Bodhisattva
Seated in padmāsana, the hands in dharmacakra-mudrā.
Nepalese, eighth to ninth century.
(The right hand alone is haṃsāsya.)
(Dr. Coomaraswamy’s collection)
C. Haṃsāsya hand, from a
Nepalese image.
D. Kartarī-mukha or mayura
hand (holding stalk of a lotus),
from a Nepalese image.
E. Hands of a Dancing Śiva
right hand Ardha-candra (for patāka),
making Abhaya-mudrā.