South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c10.205
South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c10.205
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The flexion of the figure must be taken to represent the ati-bhaṅga pose. Bronze figure representing this conception of Siva is particularly rare. There is a beautiful stone example of this image in a Chola temple in Perur 3 miles from Coimbatore (vide Viswakarmā, Plate 32, Part VI). There is a relief representing Siva destroying the elephant in the Dhumra Lena Cave at Ellora.