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rāsaka (VI. 237-245) as follows:
"tālaś ca jaya-tālaś ca ghaṇṭikā jaya-pūrvikā patahaś ca haḍukkā ca mṛdangaḥ karaṭā tataḥ. ity ādi vādya-sandoho vādyate daṇḍa-rāsake... pātradvayam samārabhya dve dve pātre vivardhayet bhaveyur asta-dvandvāni yāvat, tāvad yathā-ruci. anyonyábhimukham vā'pi parāvṛtta-mukham tathā,
mukho dandá-nuviddham ca (?)
vādya-tāla-samanvitam.
sthānakaiḥ (karaṇair) hasta-tāḍanair vartanair yutam.
nānābandhaiḥ samāyuktam, laya-traya-samanvitam,
danda-rāya(sa)m iti proktam
nṛttabheda-vicaksanaih" (T.S.S. Edn.)
According to Pārsvadeva, observes Dr. Raghavan, daṇḍa-rāsaka is a dance in which all tāla-vādyas are played. Dancers in pairs enter and make eight pairs and they either face each-other or stand back to back. They beat their palms or sticks in unision with rhythm and they execute various poses and dance. The modern Gujarati dandia-rāsa comes very close to this except that the pairs at times are not limited to a certain number and this performance is accompanied by song and music. We do not know the date of the sources consulted by Dr. Raghavan.
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Rājasekhara also describes a dance called 'calli' which looks like a division of nartakis in two rows facing each other :
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"samāmsa-śīrṣā sama-bāhu-hastā rekhā viśuddhā aparāś ca dadati, panktibhyām dvābhyām laya-tala-bandham parasparam sābhimukhāḥ callim."
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