Chidambaram: Home of Nataraja
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8185026645
Length
140p., Col. Plates; Maps; Glossary; Index; 31cm
Subjects
Among Tamil Nadu’s innumerable temples, Chidambaram occupies a unique place as the home of Nataraja, the dancer form of Shiva. This is now one of the most celebrated images of any Hindu deity, renowned throughout India and indeed all over the world. The mythical corpus associated with Shiva’s dance of creation in the celbrated Golden Hall, or Chit Sabha complex, at Chidambaram underscores the iconography of Nataraja and the architectural configuration of ...
