South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c10.32

c10.32

The earliest example of this image occurs in the famous Pallava stone panel in the upper rock cut cave at Trichinopoly wrongly described as Naṭarāja (vide fig. 158 Vincent Smith's History of Fine Art page 222). A later example of the Chola period is illustrated in figure 14 which is iconologically a different conception of the same subject.