The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c25.110

c25.110

Vitarka, mudrā assumed in discussion. This mudrā is altogether unknown in the Sādhanamālā and seems to be a later development. It is, nevertheless, shown by a number of forms of Avalokiteśvara treated of in the Appendix all of which are more or less influenced by Tibetan art and iconography. This mudrā is represented with the right arm bent, all fingers erect except either the index or the ring finger which touches the thumb so as to resemble a ring. The hand is extended forward with the palm outward.