Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s3.29
Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s3.29
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**Daṇḍa-hasta or Gaja-hasta :**—‘It has got the technical sense of the arm thrown forward (sometimes across the body), appearing like a straight staff or the lolling trunk of an elephant’. The palm in this pose ‘seems to be in Vaināyakī mudrā’, Bannerjea. It is finely illustrated in the well-known Naṭarāja images of Śiva. Nṛtya-Gaṇapati, Kṛṣṇa Kāliya-damana, dancing Cāmuṇḍā are also some of the more famous figures representing this pose. Bharhut sculptures of the Apsaras also depict this pose.