The first Indian treaties on the arts, the Natyashastra, were about dance. Music and dance is central to religious worship, to love, to the expression of every spiritual and emotional nuance possible to a human being.
One of the great creations of Indian art is Shiva Nataraja, symbolizing the process of creation and dissolution in terms of the dynamic dance of the divinity.
A sash blown off the body in a sharp turn to the right touches the tiruvasi. Body, head and crown face forward with chin raised and shoulders steady, the front left arm carries its pendant hand across the body as the left leg is raised across space and the main right hand rises with the gesture of fearlessness. The two hands behind carry a rattle drum and a flame in each hand. The hair is a nimbus of swirling rays curving in space. If on the left, his scarf touches the tiruvasi, Shiva's snake raises its hood touching the arch on the right.
Text created by Renu Rana..
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