Bharata Natyam
Elizabeth Kelly
Avahittha
Saṃyuta Hasta - Double Hand Gestures
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Avahittha. This is the combination of two Ṡukatunḍa hands meeting each other on the breast. They are bent and slowly lowered.
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This hand is to be employed to represent weakness, sigh, revelation of one’s own body, thinness there of and the yearning for a beloved.
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Avahittha—When the two Śukatuṇḍa hands meet each other on the breast and are bent and then slowly lowered, the Avahittha hands will be the result.
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It is to be used in indicating weakness, sigh, showing one’s body, thinness [or the body] and longing [for a beloved].
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When two Śuka-tunda hands are placed on the chest and are bent in the forepart and slowly bent downwards, the pose is called Avahittha.
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It should be to show weakness, high breathing and showing limbs.
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Avahittha (dissimulation): two Alapadma hands are held on the chest.
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erotic dances (srngara natana), holding a playball, the breasts
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Avahittha: Sukatunda hands held against the heart. The patron deity is Markandeya.
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debility, wasting of the body, eager interest, thinness
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If two Solapadma hastas are placed on the chest (palms facing the chest), it becomes Avahittha hasta (avahittha = dissimulation).
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Avahittha hasta is used to denote erotic dances, holding a ball for play - and the breasts.
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Alapadma (Sõlapadma) - 7:373-375
Alapallava (Utpalapadma) - 7:376-379
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Alapadma (Sõlapadma) - 7:373-375
Alapallava (Utpalapadma) - 7:376-379
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When two Sukatunda hastas are held in front of the chest (palms facing the chest) and pointing downwards, it becomes Avahittha hasta.
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Avahittha hasta is used to denote - debility, thinness of the body, eager interest and thinness.
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Avahittha: The hands which are in Sukatunda Hasta are held facing the chest and are then turned downwards and lowered.
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This Hasta is used to depict leanness of the body and a lady speaking in anxiety.
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Avahittha: If both hands forming śukatunda are held in front of the chest and slowly curved downward is avahittha.
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It shows weakness and anxiety.
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The ṡukatunḍa hastas are bent slightly and held at the chest with the plams facing away from each other. The hands are turned and moved downwards slowly to face downwards. This is the avahittha hasta.
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Emaciation, sigh and longing can be depicted with this.
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If the two hands in the form of two Sukatunda hastas, with the fingers pointing upward, are placed obliquely in front of the chest, they become Avahittha hasta.
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An afflicted woman, a covered thing, one taken with the fever of passion, anxiety, show of weakness of the body,
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a thin body, one disinterested in worldly ways, exhalation, a terrible thing, touching the body of the indolent, piercing, fall, disease, rise in these in Avahittha is prescribed. Detailed Description of the Subjects of Avahittha Hasta
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All the subjects from ’exhalation' to rise are to be indicated by the wise with Avahittha, being placed in each case in the proper place, in the proper shape.
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Avahittha, with the fingers trembling in the air,
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is applicable in all the subjects from ‘an afflicted woman’ to ‘one disinterested in worldly ways’.
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Two śukatuṇḍas, joined face to face, if [placed] at the chest [form] avahittha.
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When two hands in sukatunda facing the chest are lowered pointing downwards, it is known as avahittha.
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It is used to indicate weakness, eagerness, breathing out and scratching the body.