Citations:mudra

English citations of mudra

• 1879 — Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia, Book IV

  Where nothing stirred nor sign of watching was,
  Save at the outer gates, whose warders cried
  Mudra, the watchword, and the countersign
  Angana, and the watch-drums beat a round;

• 1915 — Swami Swatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika (14th c.), translated by Pancham Sinh.

  The Kechari Mudra is accomplished by thrusting the tongue into the gullet, by turning it over itself, and keeping the eyesight in the middle.

• 1988 — B. R. Kishore, Dances of India, p. 34.

  In dancing angikabhinaya or gestures of the bodyand the limbs play an important part. Of these the hand-gestures called mudras play a very crucial role. By a beautiful and codified mudras even very complicated ideas can be conveyed and emotions portrayed. A mudra may be defined as a particular position or the intertwining of fingers.

• 1992 — Lewis Rowell, Music and Musical Thought in Early India, p. 65.

  The mudrās were designed to convey a wealth of information with just a few simple and convenient motions of the hand.

• 1996 — Victor Pelevin, Crystal World (1994); translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield.

  The king of creation would not have curved his palm into the likeness of a Hindu mudra in an attempt to protect the tiny launching pad on his thumbnail from the dank wind.