Mukkuruni Vinayaka Shrine; click for a larger image

Pandya Nayaka or Murukan Shrine; click for a larger image North Gopuram with Shivaganga Tirtha; click for a larger image Raja Sabha or 1000 Pillars Hall; click for a larger image Shivaganga Tirtha with the 100 Pillars Hall and the West Gopuram in the background; click for larger image Mandapam in inner courtyard of the Nataraja temple; click for larger image


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Srinivasan, Sharada. 2004 Shiva as 'cosmic dancer': on Pallava origins of the Nataraja bronze. in World Archaeology, volume 36, no.3 September 2004.

Younger, Paul. 1995 The Home of the Dancing Sivan. Oxford


Copyright © 2007 Raja Deekshithar. All rights reserved.
The author would like to thank the Digital South Asian Library
for its kind permission to reproduce the six photos of the Shri Shiva Nataraja temple in Chidambaram.
All other photos by the author.