South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c8.130

c8.130

Of these actions of the hands and ‘finger plays’ there are some typical poses common to all the schools of Indian Sculpture while there are some which specially appertain to local schools. Of those met with in the Saivaite bronze figures a few have been borrowed from the language of the dance-gestures laid down in the *natya sastra*, while the rest seem to have been designed by the artists themselves. The poses specially devised by the South Indian sculptors are illustrated in diagrams A, B, H, J, K, N, T, V and Z.