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What is a mudra?

What is a mudra? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (dance, art) Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography.
  2. (Hinduism) Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation.
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The mudra represents the union of the sexes with Vairocana as the procreator.
A hand held in a traditional posture or mudra or a foot glimpsed beneath a sari are the humble subjects of most works.
This mudra is designed to help you process food, absorb the nutrients from that food, and then to eliminate the waste products more efficiently.
Rasa can mean mood or feeling in Sanskritic languages, and mudra can be meaningful hand gesture.
There are no less than sixty-four thousand different sorts of mudra prescribed in the Tantras.
She is then purified by the recitation of many mantras and texts, and by the performance of the mudra or gesticulations.

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