Dear Dr Marina Orelskaya,

The issue was resolved through Patrick's offline conversation with me.

He found  utkaTa koNaasan to be close to the drill under discussion, except that the hands were spread straight horizontally on either sides.

He found my suggestion

digantasamabaahu utkaTa koNaasan

or

anuprasthabaahu utkaTakoNaasan

as a good choice.

Arrai Mandi /Ardha mandali Sanskritization or Tamilization? Better to accept both as synonyms and leave it at that.



On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Marina Orelskaya via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 18:13:36 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] plié squat
Dear Patrick,

in Indian dance technique, the proper Sanskrit word for "arrai mandi" is ardhamaNDalI.


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On Tue, 12/20/16, patrick mccartney <psdmccartney@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [INDOLOGY] plié squat
 To: "Indology List" <indology@list.indology.info>
 Date: Tuesday, December 20, 2016, 2:26 AM

 Dear Friends, 
 Mostly just for a bit of fun I am translating a
 video of a friend's yoga class from her website into
 Sanskrit. Having transcribed her instructions I am now in
 the process of translating it. This is also part of a larger
 (side)-project to look at the 'grammar of yoga
 classes'. I am trying to build up a corpus of linguistic
 material from yoga classes. I will eventually add to the
 video transliterated subtitles and a dubbed audio channel as
 well. 
 My question for the list is: how you might
 translate plié, as in a plié
 squat. 
 Below are some terms for 'squatting'
 in spokensanskrit.de, but
 I'm curious to know if there is a more closer way to
 translate it than the options below.

 उत्कुटकutkuTakaadj.squattingपर्यङ्कबद्धparyaGkabaddhaadj.squattingपल्यङ्कpalyaGkam.squatting
 I'm wondering if there is a
 bhāratanāṭyam term that might get closer. My
 current choice is: arrai mandi, however, as someone
 who has 0% knowledge of Tamil, I'm not sure if I have
 transliterated this correctly OR if it is the best choice of
 dance positions that represents a plié
 squat. 
 Thanks in advance.

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 the best,

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