To the cognoscente, its comprehensive treatment of artistic experience, expression and communication, content and form, emerges from an integral vision that flowers into a many-branched tree of all Indian arts. Among them, all eight recognised classical dances invariably draw on Natya Shastra to lay down four veritable tenets: eloquent facial expressions (satvik abhinaya); well-defined movements of the limbs and torso (angik abhinaya); foundation in musical narrative and mnemonics (vachik abhinaya); and supportive props, decorations, jewellery and costumes (aharya abhinaya).
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