Nitamba
Nṛttahastas - Dance hands (single and combined)
Descriptions and Meanings
9
They taken out from the shoulder to the hip are termed Nitamba.
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9
Nitamba—the two Patāka hands taken out from the boulder [to the hip].
26:80
When two hands come out from the top of the arms (reaching the hips) they are called Nitamba.
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Nitamba (buttock): Pataka hands face upwards, turned over, (extended from) the shoulder to the buttocks. Patron deity Agastya.
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weariness, descent or entry (avatarana), astonishment, ecstasy, etc.
8:514-515
Two Pataka hastas face upwards, then turned over and extended from shoulders to the nitambas (-buttocks) - is considered as Nitamba hasta. Its patron deity is Agastya.
8:514-515:
Nitamba hasta denotes the following. weariness, descent or entry, astonishment, ecstasy and such other aspects.
8:557-558
If two Pataka hastas are moved from the shoulders up to the hips on respective sides, it is Nitaṁba hasta.
8:557-558:
This hasta is used to denote the halos round the Sun and the Moon, beauty of limbs, compound wall, the aharya of devatas, movement and beauty of the sides.
4:1252-1253
Nitamba: The hands which are in the Tripatāka Hasta move from the region of the shoulders to the hip where they are moved (recita).
(Tripataka is not in this source text)
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7:88
Nitamba hasta: When the hands rest on the sides from the upper part of the hand or shoulder it is nitamba hasta
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2:256
Pataka hastas are stretched horizontally and held loose to form latā hastas. These are used in nrtta and abhinaya. In nitamba (nitambaka?) and other hastas other scholars suggest tripataka hastas.
:868
If the two Tripatakas are brought down to below the buttocks, it is Nitamba hasta
7:116
Movement [of these hands [? patākas?] from the shoulder to the region of hips is nitamba.
3:493-494
When the hands either in patāka or in tripataka facing upwards and then downwards are moved to the region of the hips, proceeding from the region of the shoulders, [finishing] with a recaka movement, it is known as nitamba. Some say that the hands move from the region of the back.