The Development of Hindu Iconography c7.38

c7.38

Technical terms in the study of Indian Iconography: Various handposes—hastas and mudrās, 246-48; different types of mudrās: Vaidic, 248-49;—Tāntric, 250-51; the appearance of some of the latter in the Indus Valley objects, 251-52;—in some sculptures of the pre-Christian period, 252-56; some hastas and their early representations, 256-62; bhūmisparśa- and dharmacakra-mudrās in early Buddhist art, 262-63 (the ideology behind the latter, 256); some complex handposes adopted by ritualists, their significance, 263-64.