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Keśabandha

Nṛttahastas - Dance hands (single and combined)

Descriptions and Meanings

200 BCE - 200 CE
The Natya Sastra (NS) - Board of Scholars
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9:189

Two hands are moved out from the Keśabandha (hair knot) and held on the sides are termed Keśabandha.

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200 BCE - 200 CE
The Natyasastra, Volume I (NS) - Dr. Manomohan Ghosh
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9:185

Keśabandha—the two hands moved out from the hair-knot (keśabandha) and held on the sides.

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400 CE - 500 CE
Visnudharmottarapurana (VDP) - Dr. Priyabala Shah
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26:81

The hands raised from the sides and acting on the shoulders are called Keśabandha. The acaryas have approved them.

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1100 CE - 1200 CE
The Mirror of Gesture (AD) - Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Keśa-bandha (tying the hair): Pataka hands binding the hair. Patron deity Durga.

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gem-pillar, binding the hair, cheek etc.


1100 CE - 1200 CE
Abhinaya Darpanam of Nandikeswara (AD) - P.S.R. Apparao
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8:537

when two Pataka hastas are held as if binding the hair, it becomes Keśabandha hasta. Its patron deity is Durga.

Meaning:
8:537:

it denotes diamond studded pillar, binding the hair, cheek etc.


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Patāka - 7:223-229

Patāka - 7:230-242

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8:559-560

When two Pataka hastas are moved from the hips up to the hair, then it is Kēśabandha hasta.

Meaning:
8:559-560:

This hasta is used to denote - two tall trees, excess, Meru mountain, plenty and saying 'stand up'.


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Patāka - 7:223-229

Patāka - 7:230-242

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1126 CE - 1234 CE
The Nṛtyavinōda of Mānasôllāsa, A Study (NVoM) - Hema Govindarajan
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4:1253-1254

Kēśabandha: The hands which are in the Tripatāka Hasta emerge from the region of the hair and are moved near the sides.

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1138 CE - 1400 CE
Śri Pārśvadeva's Saṅgítasamayasāra (SS) - Dr. M. Vijayalakshmi
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7:89

Kesabandha According to Digambara the great, the kesabandhahasta is formed by moving the hands from the hair (head) to both sides.

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1200 CE - 1300 CE
Jāyasenāpativiracita Nṛttaratnāvalī, Volume I (NrtN) - Pappu Venugopala Rao and Yashoda Thakore
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2:255

Keśabandha hastas begin at the height of half the face, move out from over the shoulder and go down to the original position.

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1350 CE - 1550 CE
Śrihastamuktāvali (HM) - Maheswar Neog
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:867

If the two Tripatakas are taken out from the lock of hair to a distance and then brought back to the hair, it is called Kesabandha hasta

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Tripatāka - :37

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1500 CE - 1600 CE
Nartananirnaya of Sri Pandrika Vitthala Vol. 3 (NN) - R. Sathyanarayana
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7:117

In keśabandha (these) move from the region of the hair along the sides (to the region of the hips).

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Urdhvamaṇḍali
1600 CE - 1650 CE
Saṅgītanārāyaṇa (SN) - Mandakranta Bose
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3:497

When the hands in tripatāka or in patāka being raised from the sides to the head move out of the region of the hair repeatedly to reach the hips, it is called kesabandha.

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Patāka - 3:325-327

Tripatāka - 3:335

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