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| Keywords: Chidambaram Shiva.jpg en Painting on paper depicting the Chidambaram tableau Śiva dances the ananda tandava the eternal dance of creation and destruction Śiva dressed in a tiger skin dances the ananda tandava the eternal dance of creation and destruction His figure set off by a blue background is surrounded by a prabhavali The right foot of the god is firmly planted on the spine of the wriggling and dwarfish Apasmara purusha who represents ignorance In his right upper hand the god carries the damaru in his left upper hand the fire His lower right hand is in abhaya mudra and his lower left points at his raised foot The Ganga peeps out of his crown of matted hair and in the whirling of the dance some dreadlocks have become loose and fly around his person A wreath of severed heads hangs from his neck The crescent moon rests on his forehead above the tripundra marks In all these Śiva images of this album the third eye is never emphasized but rather suggested between the eyebrows The Apasmara purusha carries in his hands sword and buckler Fangs protrude from his mouth and on his forehead is a conspicuous tripundra To the left of Nataraja is his consort the green-complexioned Shivakamasundari robed in a red sari and bedecked with jewels In her right hand she carries a lotus flower To the right of the dancing god stand his two foremost devotees the tiger-footed Vyaghrapada and Patanjali with the lower body and hood of a snake Both have hands in anjali mudra Gandharvas fly above the tableau carrying baskets of flowers and scatter petals on the dancing god http //www britishmuseum org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details aspx objectid 3058360 partid 1 output Places 2f 2fOR 2f 2f41361 2f 2f41361-2-20 2f 2fPainted+in+Thanjavur 2f 2f 2f 2f 2f 2f orig 2fresearch 2fsearch_the_collection_database 2fadvanced_search aspx currentPage 4 numpages 10 Author ca 1820 PD-art Drawings of Nataraja Tiger clothing in art Patanjali | ||||
