Pallava Nataraja Iconography and Cosmic Dance: Explorations of Stellar Connections to Orion and Syrius

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In: Glimpses of Art and Archaeology of India and South Asia Felicitation Volume of Padmashri K K Muhammed edited by Githa U Badikillaya and O P Pandey. Bharati Prakashan, pp.16-22.
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The paper touches on the dating of a few key Nataraja bronzes from archaeometallurgical considertations to the Pallava period (c 7th to 9th century), prior to the Chola period and also explores the connections of the iconography to celestial observations of star positions of Orion and Syrius 

 

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