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 XI - Single and Combined Hands
Plate XI.A. Kaṭaka-mukha hand with blue lotus
(hand of Bodhisaṭva, Ajaṇṭā)
Plate XI.B. Ardha-candra hand, with flame (upper left hand of figure represented on Pl. I).
Plate XI.C. Kartar-mukha (hand of an image in Madras Museum)
Plate XI.D. Padmakośa hand.
Plate XI.E. Udveṣṭitālapadma hands.
SINGLE AND COMBINED HANDS
(D and E drawn by Miss Dorothy Larcher.)