Nataraja
In dance and yoga
6th/7th century Nataraja in Cave 1 of Badami cave temples A damaged 6th-century Nataraja, Elephanta Caves 6th-century Nataraja in Cave 21, Ellora Caves 8th-century Nataraja in Kailasa temple (Cave 16), Ellora Caves 8th-century sandstone Nataraja from Madhya Pradesh Sukanasa with Shiva Nataraja in Pattadakal Shiva Nataraja, mid-10th Century AD, British Museum Shiva-Nataraja in the Thousand-Pillar-Hall of Meenakshi Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India In the Shiva temple of Melakadambur is a rare Pala image that shows the ten-armed Nataraja dancing on his bull. Nataraja The Lord of Dance. In modern yoga as exercise, Natarajasana is a posture resembling Nataraja and named for him in the 20th century. A similar pose appears in the classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam.
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