This picture was taken at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. This bronze image reveals how Chola Sculptors transformed profound belief into exquisitely realized form. Shiva Nataraja dances the world into existence as he holds aloft the cosmic flames of its cyclic destruction. His posture radiates graceful energy. Poised upon the dwarf of ignorance,he lifts his left foot high across his body and extends his left arm to offer refuge to devotees. His wildly streaming locks of hair and the flaming,oval aureole (phobia) expand the radius of energy outward and upward.
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