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karana India.|kəˈrɑːnə|
[Skr. kárana doing, making, (hence) position, posture.]
One of the 108 basic postures in Indian dance, details of which were set out in the Natya Sastra by the sage Bharata Muni, traditionally after instruction from the god Siva, lord of the dance.
1936B. V. N. Naidu et al. tr. Bharata's Taṇḍava Lakṣ aṇam ii. 19, I shall now enumerate..the Karaṇas and Rēcakas... A Karaṇa in dance is the co-ordination of movements of the hands and feet. 1948G. Venkatachalam Dance in India 132 Karana, a fundamental pose. 1956P. Banerji Dance of India (ed. 5) iv. 51 The Karanas are single postures, the special feature of them being that the left hand is generally put on the breast while the right hand follows the movements of the feet. Ibid. 52 A Karana is the source and origin of all the movements. 1965E. Bhavnani Dance in India iii. 17 In the Nataraja temple at Chidambaram..there are carvings of the 108 Karanas or basic dance postures. 1967Singha & Massey Indian Dances ii. 41 Just as in Bharata's time the basic unit of dance was the karana, so it is generally agreed that today this unit is the adavu, which seems to have evolved from the karana. 1969Weekly Mail (Madras) 26 July 10/4 Karanas can be classified as those which are anukaranas (imitations)..and those which are abstract meant only for aesthetic (internal) pleasure. |