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	An article on the Nataraja temple in southern India
		Chidambaram, the heart of the universe (chit-heart, ambaram-universe), is where Shiva, manifesting as Nataraja, one of the trinity of Hindu deities, performs the cosmic dance.
		As you approach the Nataraja temple in this quaint town of Tamil Nadu, 250 km south of Chennai in southern India, you are taken aback by four gigantic towers (135 ft) with seven storeys that guard it on four sides.
		Nataraja symbolizes the ultimate reality that is eternally molding this world of maya or illusion, creating myriad nebulae with the beat of a drum and destroying a mega-universe with a graceful turn of the finger.
	www.lifepositive.com /mind/culture/indology/chidambaram.asp (629 words)

	Nataraja - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Nataraja, or “Lord of the Dance”, one of the most profound images in Indian art and philosophy.
		Although represented in many anthropomorphic ways (famously as Nataraja, the lord who dances the universe to destruction), Shiva is most commonly...
		Early classical painting and sculpture was inspired by Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, all influenced by one another.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Nataraja&pg=1&grp=art (154 words)

	The Sampradaya Sun - Independent Vaisnava News - Feature Stories - January 2007
		The image of Nataraja is carved in the west Kanika niche on the northern side of the brick built Indralath temple at Ranipur Jharial, in which the major right hand of the Lord is depicted as crossing the body in the Gajahasta mode, while in the up-raised right hand is a short trident.
		Instead of Ekapada Bhairava or Virabhadra, a figure of Vinadhara Siva in the dancing posture is carved in the first carved niche of the rock-cut Saptamatrka panel on a huge monolithic rocky elevation, in a paddy field to the north of the Ghudar village, situated at a distance of 10 kms away from Titilagarh town.
		All these Nataraja images of the upper Mahanadi Valley testify to the fact that in between 7th-8th and 11-12th century A.D., the Nataraja Cult was extremely popular in the upper Mahanadi valley of Orissa.
	www.harekrsna.com /sun/features/01-07/features529.htm (2915 words)

	NATARAJA - Nepal Safari - Explore Nepal's Wildlife
		Indian dance is a blend of nritta - the rhythmic elements, nritya - the combination of rhythm with expression and natya - the dramatic element.
		His cosmic dance conglomerates creation, preservation and destruction, Nataraja's dance is a metaphorical representation of human life, wherein the good and the bad eventually get neutralised.
		His lower right hand shows the fear-negating gesture (abhaya), his upper left hand is in half-moon pose (ardhachandra mudra) which holds a tongue of flame which is the fire (agni) that finally destroys the world and is then quenched in cosmic waters.
	www.nepal-safari.com /india/nataraja.php (273 words)

	www.drsvoboda.com
		By expressing through His image the point where the manifest and the unmanifest intersect, Nataraja blazes forth as the divine symbol of nada, the "soundless sound." Nataraja stands, goldly resplendent, illumined eternally by the lamps that flare in the garbhagriha ("womb room") of the temple at Chidambaram, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
		Nataraja straddles the bindu fence between creation and destruction, everlastingly awash in the nada tide that He Himself engenders.
		Nataraja is the perfect embodiment of a Vedic formula for compressing Reality into words: satyam, rtam, brhat ("the true, the harmonious, the vast").
	www.drsvoboda.com /nataraja.htm (872 words)

	Chidambaram Natarajar Temple
		Chidambaram is associated with Nataraja, or Shiva in his Ananda Tandava pose (the Cosmic Dance of bliss) in the cosmic golden hall and the hall of consciousness (Chit Sabha).
		The innermost prakaram surrounds this holiest of shrines, and to the South West of Nataraja, is the shrine of Govindaraja Perumaal facing the East.
		Nataraja then returns to the Raja Sabha of the temple, where in the pre-dawn hours of the next day, while the moon is full, special abhishekams are performed to Nataraja, in the presence of thousands of devotees, and this ritual is followed by the royal audience of Nataraja in the Raja Sabha.
	www.templenet.com /Tamilnadu/chidchid.html (0 words)

	Hinduism » Symbolism - Nataraja Sculpture
		As Nataraja, King of dancers, his gestures, wild and full of grace, precipitate the cosmic illusion; his flying arms and legs and the swaying of his torso produce the continuous creation-destruction of the universe, death exactly balancing Nataraja birth.
		Shiva as Nataraja agreed to break the violent power of the sacred Ganga’s fall by catching her in his tangled hair, breaking the fall with his hair on its way to the Himalayas and Northern India.
		Nataraja wears a snake coiled around his upper arms and neck symbolizing the power he has over the most deadly of creatures.
	hinduism.karthigai.com /index.php/nataraja-symbolism/48 (1115 words)

	Grammar and Siva from the Chapter "Vyakarana", in Hindu Dharma : kamakoti.org:
		Nataraja is the king of all dancers-- he who cannot be excelled as a dancer-- and he is also called Mahanata [the great dancer].
		Nataraja's dance can be seen only by those who have the inner vision of jnana.
		The fourteen sounds produced by Nataraja's drum are the means by which the reality of Siva is to be known and experienced within us in all its plenitude.
	www.kamakoti.org /hindudharma/part7/chap2.htm (2603 words)

	Nataraja, Shiva Nataraja, Lord Dance Nararaja, Shiva Dancing, Hindu God Nataraja, Dancing Nataraja
		The significance of the Nataraja (Nataraj) sculpture is said to be that Shiva is shown as the source of all movement within the cosmos, represented by the arch of flames.
		Shiva as Nataraja agreed to break the violent power of the sacred Ganga's fall by catching her in his tangled hair, breaking the fall with his hair on its way to the Himalayas and Northern India.
		Nataraja wears a snake coiled around his upper arms and neck symbolizing the power he has over the most deadly of creatures.
	www.lotussculpture.com /nataraja1.htm (1017 words)

	The Creative Eye
		Most importantly, it enabled me to present the icon in its totality and draw attention to Shiva Nataraja's precarious balancing act which infuses dynamic tension to his form, while celebrating the sheer joy of combating negative energy.
		Nataraja is Shiva as the Lord of the Dance, in the ananda tandava, the Dance of Bliss.
		A ring of flames around the god depicts the whirling energy of nature's cycles of birth and death and rebirth, a dancing cosmos brought into motion by the dancing god within, yet the wild movement of Shiva's dance is in counterpoint to the stillness of his smiling face, deep in meditative consciousness.
	www.asiasociety.org /arts/creativeeye/1979020.html (550 words)

	Shiva Nataraja, Nataraja Idol, Nataraja Brass Idol, Nataraja Statue in Brass, Brass Sculptures, Antique Brass Statue
		Nataraja is seen here absorbed in celestial rapture, his locks flying, entwined with snakes, carrying a drum symbolizing the rhythm of creation.
		The aureole that surrounds Nataraja represents the fiery cosmos, which is sustained by the dynamic movement of the celestial Lord of the Dance.
		Nataraja or “Lord of the Dance” is a form of Shiva, one of the powerful trinity of Indian Gods.
	www.craftsinindia.com /products/nataraja_statue.html (252 words)

	Nataraja
		Nataraja is art and spiritiality in perfect oneness, chosen to depict the Divine because in dance that which is created is inseperable from its creator, just as the universe and soul cannot seperate itself from God.";
		The most famous image that represents Hinduism depicts the Nataraja, the Great Lord in his dance of destruction and creation, while trampling down the demon of ego that hinders our progress to enlightenment.
		The symbolism of Shiva Nataraja is religion, art and science merged as one.
	www.coreymondello.com /nataraja.html (336 words)

	9" Nataraja Statue Natraj Nataraj Dancing Shiva Brass Hindu
		Nataraja (also known as Natraj or Nataraj) is one of the names of the Hindu god, Shiva, the most revered god in the Hindu religion.
		Nataraja is sometimes referred to as "the dancer of creation, lord of joy and sorrow." The dancing image captured in popular statues is meant to symbolize life's ebb and flow.
		The statues of Nataraja are framed by a circle representing cosmic energy.
	www.greatwinesmadesimple.com /store/Wine-3735201-B000I5M9IS-9_Nataraja_Statue_Natraj_Nataraj_Dancing_Shiva_Brass_Hindu.html (210 words)

	Nataraja Guru
		Nataraja Guru was the second son born to a medical stalwart called Dr. Palpu (Padmanabhan) who had been educated and trained in England.
		His life was dedicated to serve the cause of the deprived millions who were socially, culturally, economically and literally struggling in the 19th and 20th centuries.
		Nataraja Guru was academically trained in Geology, Zoology and Educational Psychology.
	www.narayanagurukula.org /Pages/nataraja.html (259 words)

	Shiva - Nataraja .
		Siva Nataraja, the lord of the dance, consolidates into a single image many meanings of the Hindu tradition.
		Nataraja is the dance of the entire cosmos.
		As Nataraja he holds the entire domain of the universe, representing Nada (sound), signifying the evolution of the universe.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/hinduism/19950 (408 words)

	Shiva as Nataraja - Dance and Destruction In Indian Art
		The visual image of Nataraja achieved canonical form in the bronzes cast under the Chola dynasty in the tenth century AD, and then continued to be reproduced in metal, stone and other substances right up to the present times.
		Shiva Nataraja was first represented thus in a beautiful series of South Indian bronzes dating from the tenth and twelfth centuries A.D. In these images, Nataraja dances with his right foot supported by a crouching figure and his left foot elegantly raised.
		The Nataraja image represents not simply some event in the mythic life of a local deity but a universal view in which the forces of nature and the aspirations and limitation of man confront each other and are blended together.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /article/nataraja (2165 words)

	Shiva - Nataraja .
		The cobra around Nataraja's waist is kundalini shakti, the soul-impelling cosmic power resident within all.
		He cuts and burns the fetters of the human mind in the fire of knowledge, and through the eye of wisdom.
		Nataraja is art and spirituality in perfect oneness, chosen to depict the divine because in dance, that which is created is inseparable from its creator.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/hinduism/19950/2 (592 words)

	Image no. 484 \| Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Shiva Nataraja) \| AskAsia.org
		The Hindu god Shiva Nataraja's limbs, hair, and sashes fan outward from his torso like spokes in a wheel, with the center at his navel.
		Shiva's two lower hands show the salvation that is inherent in his dance: his lower right hand is held in the gesture of reassurance and his lower left hand points to his lifted foot to signify that his activities are intended to provide deliverance for the worshipper.
		Shiva Nataraja may have been an emblem for kingly aspirations as his dancing posture evokes the successful warrior, a role that was one of the Chola kings' highest ideals.
	www.askasia.org /teachers/images/image.php?no=484&era=00&grade=04&geo=03 (239 words)

	Villa Nataraja - Majapahit Beach Villas :: Beachfront luxury villas in Bali.
		This sea view two-storey villa is characterised by a walled garden featuring a 14 x 4 metre lap pool, which is 1.8 metres in depth and lined with green Java stone.
		This area is shared between guests staying at Villa Nataraja and the next-door Villa Raj.
		This is the place to chill out beneath the tall coconut palms and gaze at the graceful kites scattered throughout the sky, or watch both the sunrise and the sunset create a warm pink glow across the mysterious, towering, sea-cliffs of Nusa Penida Island.
	www.majapahitbeachvillas.com /content/view/3/11 (691 words)

	The Lord Siva Nataraja Shrine at the Satchidananda Ashram - Yogaville
		The magnificent Lord Siva Nataraja Shrine is situated at a lovely hilltop location overlooking the LOTUS Shrine, with a panoramic view of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance.
		Lord Siva Nataraja, the King of Cosmic Dance, dances with a flaming halo symbolizing the Pranava OM or universal intelligence/energy.
		At the feet of Lord Nataraja sits a beautiful Lingam, with smaller Moortis of Nandishwara Deva (Sri Nandi), Sri Ganesha, Sri Subramanyam (Lord Muruga), and Sri Sivakami Mata, His Consort.
	www.yogaville.org /Yogaville/Nataraja_Shrine/Nataraja_Shrine.html (342 words)

	AHAD Protests Kohler's Use of Nataraja Image
		, one of the most prominent plumbing supply companies is using Lord Nataraja (a form of Lord Shiva) in the form of a scantly clad woman and taking a shower to hawk its new shower products.
		This image is unmistakably that of Lord Shiva as Nataraja.
		The dancing pose, multiple hands, the hand gestures, the metaphor of water from shower too, resembles the flow of river Ganga (Ganges) usually depicted as flowing through Lord Shiva.
	www.hindunet.org /anti_defamation/kohler (415 words)

	Hindu Gods, Hindu God Shiva, Hindu God, Statue Hanuman, Kali, Nataraja, Shiva
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		SOLD Bronze Shiva as the Lord of Dance, Nataraja 30"
		SOLD Nataraja Statue with Murugan, Ganesh & Nandi Base 48"
	store.bronzecreativestore.com /shbrga.html (126 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum
		Icons depicting Shiva as the Lord of Dance (Nataraja) seem to have originated in the North during the Gupta period in the first century and developed in the South early in the seventh century.
		The Nataraja statue presents the God in a pose, which is technically termed bhujanga-trasa (fear of a snake), since the body is twisted violently to the side, one leg raised abruptly as if the foot had just trodden upon a snake.
		As for the rest, the icon is wholly didactic, a superb symbol of the divine forces which demand utter self-surrender on the part of the individual, presented in ritualised artistic terms which engage the mind of the devotee as compellingly as does the temple-dance itself.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20051211/spectrum/main4.htm (785 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Nataraja
		This form of dance, which is the most common representation of Nataraja, is called in the classic Sanskrit treatises on dance the bhujangatrasa ("trembling of the snake").
		The significance of the Nataraja sculpture is said to be that Siva is shown as the source of all movement within the cosmos, represented by the arch of flames.
		As Nataraja, King of dancers, his gestures, wild and full of grace, precipitate the cosmic illusion; his flying arms and legs and the swaying of his torso produce the continuous creation-destruction of the universe, death exactly balancing birth.
	fusionanomaly.net /nataraja.html (935 words)

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