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Saṃyuta Hasta - Double Hand Gestures

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1100 CE - 1200 CE
The Mirror of Gesture (AD) - Ananda Coomaraswamy

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Ȧviddha-vakra (swinging curve): vyavrtta Pataka hands are shown with grace and with (movement of) the elbows. Patron deity Tumburu.

Meaning:
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tying the girdle, difference, slender-ness of waist, folk dances (desya natana).

Based upon:
Patāka (flag): the thumb bent to touch the fingers, and the fingers extended.

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According to another book, the thumb is bent against the base of the forefinger and the palm and fingers extended. When Brahma, the Shaper, went to Parabrahma, as he saluted him with the cry of “Victory!” he held his hand like a flag, since when it has been called the “flag hand". It is the first of all hands, it originates from Brahma, its colour is white, its sage Siva, its race Brahmana, its patron deity Parabrahma.

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1100 CE - 1200 CE
Abhinaya Darpanam of Nandikeswara (AD) - P.S.R. Apparao

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8:510-511

Two Pataka hastas, in vyavrtta position are shown with grace and elbows moving, it is Ȧviddhavakra hasta.

Meaning:
8:510-511:

This hasta is used to denote tying the girdle, difference and slenderness of the waist.

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When the thumb is bent and other fingers are close to one another and stretched, it is Patāka hasta.

Patāka - 7:223-229 When the thumb is bent and its tip is at the root of the forefinger and the palm and the four fingers are streched, it becomes Patāka hasta. The additional point in the present definition is - that the tip of the thumb should be at the root of the forefinger.

When the thumb is bent and its tip is at the root of the forefinger and the palm and the four fingers are streched, it becomes Patāka hasta. The additional point in the present definition is - that the tip of the thumb should be at the root of the forefinger.

Patāka - 7:230-242
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