Excerpt from Bulletin of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology: April, 1949 The true character of the dance is strikingly shown by the beautiful bronze figure here reproduced. Nata raja is shown with four arms; one uplifted, with the hand in the gesture of Divine Reassurance (abhaya mudrd); another inclined sideways in the elephant's trunk gesture, point ing to the upraised left foot, symbol of human salvation; a third hand holds a fire-ball and a fourth the hand - drum. The god wears a tall crown of peacock feathers, in ...
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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology: April, 1949 The true character of the dance is strikingly shown by the beautiful bronze figure here reproduced. Nata raja is shown with four arms; one uplifted, with the hand in the gesture of Divine Reassurance (abhaya mudrd); another inclined sideways in the elephant's trunk gesture, point ing to the upraised left foot, symbol of human salvation; a third hand holds a fire-ball and a fourth the hand - drum. The god wears a tall crown of peacock feathers, in which appear the crescent moon, the head of a cobra, and the skull of Brahma's fifth head - cut off by Siva as a punishment for misrepresentation. Siva has a third eye, his eye of de struction, in the middle of his forehead. Seven streams of water issue from his hair, and among them is Ganga, goddess of the sacred river, which is one of the seven. In his ears Siva wears both male and female ear-rings. He is clothed in a single brief garment, and is adorned with bracelets, bangles, a fillet and a collar; also finger, thumb and toe rings. Within a splendid flame-tipped aureole (timvdsi) he stands upon the demon Apasmara, supported upon a double lotus pedes tal. On one wrist is a serpent, the usual ornament of the god. Another serpent in the hand Of the demon below is said to be the corresponding ornament from another arm, dropped during the rapid dance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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