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Śankha

Saṃyuta Hasta - Double Hand Gestures

Descriptions and Meanings

1100 CE - 1200 CE
The Mirror of Gesture (AD) - Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Description:
No verse annotation

Śankha (conch): the thumbs of Sikhara hands are joined, and the forefinger extended.

Meaning:
No verse annotation:

conch


Based upon:

Ṡikhara - No verse annotation
Ṡikhara - No verse annotation
Not included elsewhere
1100 CE - 1200 CE
Nandikeśvara's Abhinaya Darpaṇam, 3rd edition (AD) - Dr. Manomohan Ghosh
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Bharata Natyam 
Elizabeth Kelly 
Description:
1:190-191

Śaṅkha. When thumb of a Sikhara hand meets the other thumb and is clung round by the fore-finger [close to the latter thumb] the hand is called Śaṅkha.

Meaning:
1:191:

It is used to denote conch-shell and such other things.


Based upon:

Ṡikhara - 1:118
Not included elsewhere
1100 CE - 1200 CE
Abhinaya Darpanam of Nandikeswara (AD) - P.S.R. Apparao
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Description:
8:483-484

When the thumbs of two Sikhara hastas are joined and similarly the forefingers etc. are also joined it becomes Saṁkha hasta (Saṁkha=conch).

Meaning:
8:483-484:

This hasta is used to denote the conch (i.e. blowing the conch) etc. as mentioned by Bharata and others.


Based upon:

Ṡikhara - 7:295-297
Ṡikhara - 7:298-305
Not included elsewhere

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