Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes Three broad categories of poses and postures (Mudras) which is chapter 76-78 English summary of the Samarangana-Sutradhara by Bhoja. This work in Sanskrit representing a voluminous treatise on Vastu-Shastra (the science of Architecture), encompassing a broad range of subjects, such as Architecture, Shilpa-shastra (Iconography, Arts and Crafts) but also deals with Creation-theory, Geography, Philosophu, etc.
Chapter 76-78 - Three broad categories of poses and postures (Mudrās)
[Note: These chapters corresponds to the following chapters of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra:
Chapter 76 (Ṛjvāgata etc., ‘Sthānas’) corresponds to Chapter 79,
Chapter 77 (Vaiṣṇava etc., ‘Standing postures’) corresponds to Chapter 80,
Chapter 78 (Patākā etc., ‘handposes’) corresponds to Chapter 83]
A detailed potice of the contents of these chapters has already been made in the Study—vide Vol. II (published first). Here, in brief, it is indicated that these three chapters describe the three broad categories of poses and postures in which the images of Hindu divinities are shown—hand poses (cf. Patākā etc. 78th Chapter), the postures of leg (cf. the Vaiṣṇava etc. 77th Chapter) and the composite puses of the body itself (cf. the Ṛjvāgata etc. the different attitudes—the nine principal attitudes—-chapter 76th).