This figure is depicted as both a calm woman and an angry man with a mustache in a sculpture in the caves on Elephanta Island, which also includes a sculpture in which he has a left female half and a right male half.
An influential interpretation of the iconography of a sculpture of this figure appears in a 1924 book by a curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Art who pioneered the Traditionalist-Perennialist school with RenÃ© GuÃ©non. In a relief sculpture, this figure appears before a king staring at the sun and standing on one leg, whom a cat is imitating in order to lure mice. This figure is depicted as both a calm woman and an angry man with a mustache in a sculpture in the caves on Elephanta Island, which also includes a sculpture in which he has a left female half and a right male half. This dedicatee of reliefs such as The Descent of the Ganges at Mahabalipuram holds a (*) flame and the damaru drum as his hair streams out to connect with the fiery ring around him in a Chola-era sculpture that shows him trampling a representation of ignorance, the dwarf Apasmara. For 10 points, name this god depicted as Nataraja, or "Lord of the Dance," and worshipped via linga sculptures.
An influential interpretation of the iconography of a sculpture of this figure appears in a 1924 book by a curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Art who pioneered the Traditionalist-Perennialist school with RenÃ© GuÃ©non.
Shiva (The scholar in the leadin is Ananda Coomaraswamy.)