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# Figure

A good, small, typical south Indian Nataraja image, cast on one piece with its arch and base. Shiva holds a damaru and flame in his upper hands, stands on a crawling dwarf representing ignorance, his left leg and two other arms in dance poses. The flames arch narrows at its bottom.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1775–1850 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-24-1953](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-24-1953) · Pramāṇa
