The 'application' of a dance-gesture: the list of context-dependent meanings a single hasta or mudra can carry, so that one hand-shape may be a cloud, a forest, a river or a blessing depending on the sentence of abhinaya around it.

Where this term appears

• What are Mudras? Lineages →

  The genius of the system is a principle called viniyoga , the "application" of a gesture.

• The power in the phoneme Treatise →

  There is a viniyoga , the application, the purpose this particular formula is designated for.

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nyasajapatantramantra

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