This moderately sized brass statue represents Shiva as engaged in an ecstatic dance known in the Shaivite iconographical tradition as Ananda-tandava, the dance of dissolution, the ultimate cosmic act he delights in performing.
It is around Shiva that the tradition perceives the entire cosmic cycle rotating: the lifeless matter – ‘Prakriti’, he – the ‘purusha’, breathed life into, the chaotic ‘nada’ – the sound that stormed space by its deafening noise, arrested into his ‘damaru’ – double drum, and released structured revealing diction and linguistic discipline, phonetic forms, and ‘meaning’, and the unruly pace arrested into his legs to reveal regulated into the form of dance generating energy to annihilate and dissolve, and the beauty, to delight.
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