Lakshmi Amman's Homepage

Kartarī-Svastika

1100 CE - 1200 CE
The Mirror of Gesture (AD) - Ananda Coomaraswamy

No associated images

Description:
No verse annotation

Kartarī-svastika (crossed arrow-shafts): Kartarī-mukha hands are crossed.

Meaning:
No verse annotation:

trees, the boughs of trees, the summit of a hill.

Based upon:
Kartarī-mukha (arrow shaft face): in the same hand, the forefinger and little finger are outspread.

1100 CE - 1200 CE
Nandikeśvara's Abhinaya Darpaṇam, 3rd edition (AD) - Dr. Manomohan Ghosh

No associated images

Description:
1:188

Kartarīsvastika. When a Svastika is made by two Kartarī hands [placed at their wrist] it is called Kartarīsvastika.

Meaning:
1:189:

It is used to denote branches, hill tops, and trees.

Based upon:
Kartarīmukha: If the forefinger and the little finger of the same band (Ardhapatāka) are outspread it is called Kartarimukha.

Kartarīmukha - 1:105 Svastika. When two Pataka hands are put across each other at their wrist, they form the Svastika hand.

Svastika - 1:180-181
Not included elsewhere

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

No associated images

Description:
8:481

When two Kartarīmukha hastas are crossed (at the wrists), it becomes Kartarīswastika hasta.

Meaning:
8:481:

This hasta is used to denote the following: the boughs of trees, the summit of a hill, and trees.

Based upon:
When the forefinger and the little finger of Tripatāka hasta are extended back, it becomes Kartarīmukha hasta.

Kartarīmukha - 7:254-256 When the fore finger of Tripatáka hasta is streched backward it becoms Kartarī (mukha) hasta.