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| | Dances Of India - Dances of Shiva - Chapter [II], Indian wisdom, Shiva, Vishnu, guna, tamas, lingam, phallus, Krishna, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | There lived in the forest of Taragam ten thousand heretic rishis who did not believe in the existence of God and propagated that performance of work alone was sufficient to attain salvation. |
 | | With the view to convert them to faith, Shiva went there disguised as a yogi and accompanied by Vishnu disguised as his beautiful wife, and the great Serpent Shesha. |
 | | And as though to stress the point that the dance of the divine actor is indeed a sport of creation and destruction, at once infinite and purposeless-the gesture of gajahasta (hand as the elephants trunk). |
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