Koramudrá – Kaomudii Dance – Excerpt A
Notes:

from “Kora” (Discourse 54)
Shabda Cayaniká Part 8

this version: is the printed Saḿgiita: Song, Dance and Instrumental Music, 1st edition, version (obvious spelling, punctuation and typographical mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition.

Koramudrá – Kaomudii Dance – Excerpt A
19 October 1986, Kolkata

As I show you here, when two fingers are interlocked, their movement get restrained or blocked. As a result, hands can still be moved….. other fingers can also be moved, but the relative position between the fingers remains unassailable. This mudrá has potential for expression, but it is not really getting expressed. Hence this mudrá is called koramudrá. In Indian school of dance, when conveying a gesture of yearning, this koramudrá is formed with the help of the index finger and the middle finger. For a prolonged display of koramudrá, the arrangement of fingers have to be turned upwards. Anyway, the word kora will also mean this koramudrá or special kind of finger arrangement.

19 October 1986, Kolkata
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Saḿgiita: Song, Dance and Instrumental Music [a compilation]
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