Where nothing stirred nor sign of watching was, Save at the outer gates, whose warders cried Mudra, the watchword, and the countersign Angana, and the watch-drums beat a round;
The Kechari Mudra is accomplished by thrusting the tongue into the gullet, by turning it over itself, and keeping the eyesight in the middle.
1988 — B. R. Kishore, Dances of India, p. 34.
In dancing angikabhinaya or gestures of the bodyand the limbs play an important part. Of these the hand-gestures called mudras play a very crucial role. By a beautiful and codified mudras even very complicated ideas can be conveyed and emotions portrayed. A mudra may be defined as a particular position or the intertwining of fingers.
1992 — Lewis Rowell, Music and Musical Thought in Early India, p. 65.
The mudrās were designed to convey a wealth of information with just a few simple and convenient motions of the hand.
1996 — Victor Pelevin, Crystal World (1994); translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield.
The king of creation would not have curved his palm into the likeness of a Hindu mudra in an attempt to protect the tiny launching pad on his thumbnail from the dank wind.
