Sūcīmukha
Nṛttahastas - Dance hands (single and combined)
Descriptions and Meanings
9:184
When two Sarpasirsa hands have their tips stretched obliquely with the thumbs touching middle fingers it is remembered as Sūcīmukha.
9:180
Sūcīmukha—The two Sarpaśiraḥ hands with their thumbs touching middle fingers are to stretch their tips obliquely.
26:76
When the two Sarpa-sira hands, with their heads spread obliquely are in the pose of Svastika, they should be known as Sūcī-mukha.
(there is no Sarpasirsa in this text)
Not included elsewhere
7:115
The midfinger and thumb of two sarpaṡīrsha hastas [are joined together and move across] the forefingers (stretched) outward to give sūcī (mukha).
3:488
When the thumbs and the middle-fingers of sarpasirsa hands are joined near the caturasra region [eight fingers away from the chest] with the forefingers extended, it is known as sūcīmukha.
3:489-490
Or, some say that thumbs of sarpasirsa hands are stretched out in the middle and moved in svastika, [i.e., crossed]. Or, some [again] say that after moving the hands first in patāka inwards and outwards, the forefingers are extended [in the sucimukha hand-ges-ture]. This is sūcīmukha.
