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abhinaya

अभिनय abhinaya

Expression or 'carrying toward' the audience in classical dance and drama; its four modes are angika (body, including the mudra of the hands), vachika (word), aharya (costume) and sattvika (involuntary feeling).

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  • What are Mudras? Lineages

    In the grammar of the treatises the hands are the heart of angika abhinaya , expression through the body, one of the four kinds of expression a performer commands, alongside the words spoken, the costume worn, …

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