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The image of Shiva as Nataraj is indelibly stitched into the Indian imagination. How many various dances of Shiva are known to His worshippers. I can… - Ananda Coomaraswamy
" "The image of Shiva as Nataraj is indelibly stitched into the Indian imagination. How many various dances of Shiva are known to His worshippers. I cannot say. No doubt the root idea behind all of these dances is more or less one and the same, the manifestation of primal rhythmic energy. Whatever the origins of Shiva's dance, it became in time the clearest image of the activity of God which any art or religion can boast of.
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About Ananda Coomaraswamy
Ananda Coomaraswamy (Tamil: ஆனந்த குமாரசுவாமி, Ānanda Kentiś Muthū Kumāraswāmī; 22 August 1877 − 9 September 1947) was a Ceylonese Tamil philosopher and Metaphysicist, as well as a pioneering historian and philosopher of Indian art, particularly art history and symbolism, and an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. In particular, he is described as "the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West."
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Birth Name:
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Native Name:
ஆனந்த குமாரசுவாமி
Alternative Names:
A. K. Coomaraswamy
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Ānanda Kentish Kumāra-svāmī
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Ananda Kentish Coomara-Swamy
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Ānanda Kentish Kumāra- Svāmī
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Ananda Kentish Coomara- Swamy
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Ānandakentish Kumārasvāmī
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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
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Ananda Kentish Muthu Coomaraswamy
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O my Lord, Thy hand holding the sacred drum has made and ordered the heavens and earth and other worlds and innumerable souls. Thy lifted hand protects both the conscious and unconscious order of thy creation. All these worlds are transformed by Thy hand bearing fire. Thy sacred foot, planted on the ground, gives an abode to the tired soul struggling in the toils of causality. It is Thy lifted foot that grants eternal bliss to those that approach Thee. These Five-Actions are indeed Thy Handiwork."
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