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Elizabeth Kelly
Utsanga
Saṃyuta Hasta - Double Hand Gestures
Descriptions and Meanings
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Utsaṅga In this hand the Arala hands are placed in a contrary manner.
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Its main use is to represent the feeling of touch.
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Further its employment is to represent anything to be done with excessive effort, acts of anger and indignation, women’s envious acts and squeezing of something.
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Utsaṅga—When the Arāla hands are contrarily placed and are held upturned and bent, the Utsaṅga hand will be the result.
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It is used to indicate feeling of touch.
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It is also used to indicate acts of anger and indignation, in pressing of hands similar to women’s acts of jealousy.
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When two Arāla hands are stretched, palm upwards in reverse position and in the Vardhamana way; the combination of hands should be known as Utsanga.
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It indicates the touch of somebody else.
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Utsanga (embrace): Mrga-Sirsa hands held upon opposite armpits.
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embrace, modesty, armlet, education of children.
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According to another book: Arala hands held crosswise on the shoulders. The patron deity is Gautama.
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modesty, embrace, assent, cold, saying “Sadhu”, hiding the breasts, etc.
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1:184
Utsanga. If hands showing Mṛgašīrsha are placed on the upper arm of opposite hands the Utsanga hand is made.
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It is used to denote embrace, displaying armlets and such other ornaments, and coaching of boys.
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8:473-474
When two Mṛgašīrsha hastas are held on the opposite arm pits or upper arms, it becomes Utsanga hasta (utsanga - lap; embrace - AKS).
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Utsanga hasta is used to denote the following- embrace, modesty or bashfulness, showing the armlets educating or disciplining the children.
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8:475-476
When two Arala hastas are held crosswise on the shoulders, it becomes Utsanga hasta.
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Utsanga hasta is used to denote the following: shyness or modesty, embrace, assent, cold, saying ’sadhu’, hiding the breasts and such other things.
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Utsaṅga: The two hands which are in Sarpasirsa Hasta are crossed and made to rest on opposite shoulders.
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This Hasta is used to depict embracing, anger, cold, bashfulness and women,
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Utsanga: When two arala hastas with opposite sides are joined and kept higher up, it is called utsanga.
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It shows the separation of lover, and playing ball, etc.
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2:184
If arala or sarpaṡīrsha hastas are crossed at the wrists and placed so that the right hand is on the left shoulder and left on the right shoulder, both hands facing the dancer, it is utsaṅga.
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This is used to press hard, indignation, anger, touching the back (touching secretly), cold, hugging around the neck, jealousy and concealing the breasts.
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If the two hands formed into two Arala hastas are held upright (?) and spread out at front, the palms facing upward, it is Utsanga hasta.
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A bed, a blanket, etc. a cotton-padded mattress, ornament, an awning, a big sheet of cloth, etc., used as bed,
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Darkness, milking, pressing, refusal to excuse, touch, taking, extreme jealousy, chariot, grass,
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A fortnight, a month, a year, a day, joy, other measures of time, manifold thing, an eunuch, pressing on enemies, etc. •
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The challenge of wrestler to another, a fight, the cold season, the embrace of the beloved woman, shame—the beautiful Utsanga hasta is indicated in these. Detailed Description of the Subjects of Utsanga Hasta
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The wise should employ Utsanga in all the subjects from ‘milking’ to ‘shame’ according to their shapes.
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Utsanga, facing up and revolved in circles,
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means a bed, it also means a cotton-stuffed mattress.
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If raised a little and moved in a circle at the front,
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it is ornament.
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If Utsanga, facing down, is shown at the front,
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it speaks of an awning. It denotes big sheet of cloth, etc., used as a bed.
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If this Utsanga is moved forward,
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it would mean darkness.
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Again, two arāla hastas placed each at the other shoulder, give utsanga
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3:447
That hand [gesture] is known as utsanga where the hands face the sides with their backs and are crossed in svastika at the elbow.
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3:448-449
3:448-449
Others say that the hands are crossed in svastika touching the shoulders with their forearms. [Yet] another view holds that in utsariga both the hands are either in sarpasirsa or in patāka . Some again suggest arala in place of sarpasirsa or patāka.
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This [gesture] indicates very difficult undertakings, cold, embrace, agreeing to be decorated, bashfulness of a woman etc.
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Patāka - 3:325-327
Arāla - 3:355-357
Sarpaṡīrsha (Ahiphaṇa) - 3:397
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Patāka - 3:325-327
Arāla - 3:355-357
Sarpaṡīrsha (Ahiphaṇa) - 3:397
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