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Nalinīpadmakośa

Nṛttahastas - Dance hands (single and combined)

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200 BCE - 200 CE
The Natya Sastra (NS) - Board of Scholars
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9:199

The hands are moved by turns with Vyavartita and Parivartita Karatja, from Padmakośa form. They should be known as Nalinī Padmakośa.

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200 BCE - 200 CE
The Natyasastra, Volume I (NS) - Dr. Manomohan Ghosh
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9:195

Nalinīpadmakośa—the hands to be moved by turns with Vyavartita and Parivartita Karaṇa.

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1100 CE - 1200 CE
The Mirror of Gesture (AD) - Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Nalinī-padmakośa: Padmakosa hands are outward-turned and crossed. Patron deity Sesa.

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naga-bandha, buds, making equal distribution, cluster of flowers, the number ten, Ganda-bherunda.


1100 CE - 1200 CE
Abhinaya Darpanam of Nandikeswara (AD) - P.S.R. Apparao
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8:540-541

If two Padmakosa hastas are turned outward and crossed, it becomes Nalinīpadmakōśa hasta. Its patron deity is Sesha.

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8:540-541:

This hasta denotes nagabandha, buds, making equal distribution, cluster of flowers, the number ten, gandabherunda bird.


1126 CE - 1234 CE
The Nṛtyavinōda of Mānasôllāsa, A Study (NVoM) - Hema Govindarajan
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4:1265-1266

Nalinīpadmakośa: The hands which are in the Padmakosa Hasta are shaken and moved round from the knees to the head.

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Padmakōṡa - 4:1174-1176

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1138 CE - 1400 CE
Śri Pārśvadeva's Saṅgítasamayasāra (SS) - Dr. M. Vijayalakshmi
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7:98

Nalinipadmakośa: When the hands are near the knees and having padma kosa hasta, revolving and chang¬ing the position, it is nalinipadmakosa.

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Padmakōṡa - 7:52

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1200 CE - 1300 CE
Jāyasenāpativiracita Nṛttaratnāvalī, Volume I (NrtN) - Pappu Venugopala Rao and Yashoda Thakore
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2:276-277

As the padmakosa hastas are moved in vyavartana and parivartana, they are brought a little close to each other near the svastika area (chest area). Vyavartana and parivartana are executed with palms facing away from each other. This is nalinīpadmakośaka. The above hastas are joined at the wrist so that the little fingers and thumbs face each other.

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2:278-279

They bear other qualities as said by a few others. The same hasta when turned backwards at the shoulders, chest or knees is also nalinīpadmakośa. Kirtidhara and others named these padmavartanika.

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1350 CE - 1550 CE
Śrihastamuktāvali (HM) - Maheswar Neog
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:894

If the two Padmakosas, facing up, are taken to and from near the knees, being shaken all the time, it is Nalinipadmakosa hasta

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Padmakōṡa - :32

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1500 CE - 1600 CE
Nartananirnaya of Sri Pandrika Vitthala Vol. 3 (NN) - R. Sathyanarayana
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7:124

Two padmakosahands, turning inward [make] nalinīpadmakośa.

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1600 CE - 1650 CE
Saṅgītanārāyaṇa (SN) - Mandakranta Bose
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3:519-521

When the padmakosa hands having been first joined in svastika are moved in vyavrtta facing opposite directions from each other, it is known as nalimpadmakosa. Others view that when the padmakosa hands are joined at the wrists [and] moved from the shoulders or the breasts and are placed near the knees facing each other in vyavrtta and parivarta and then separated, it is known as nalimpadmakosa.

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Padmakōṡa - 3:383

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