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The Abhinaya Darpanam begins with a shloka which is a salutation to Lord
Shiva. This shloka describes the Sattvika Lord Shiva as the one whose
body - angikam - is the universe, whose voice - vachikam - is all forms
of language and whose ornaments are the moon and stars. At another level
however, the description contains in distilled form the essence of the
entire text; it is a symbolic representation of the 4 basic modes of
expression or abhinaya essential to dance: Angika - of the body, Vachika
- through speech, Aharya - through ornamentation, Sattvika - through
the representation of pure feeling.
('Abhinaya Darpanam' by Sandhya Purecha, Nartanam, Oct - Dec 2019)
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