The Hindu Temple v2.c12.298

v2.c12.298

Although the image—a very high relief and partly carved in the round—is badly damaged, there is triumph to be seen in the calm face and in the bow wielding arm of the dancing God, and sovereignty in his crowned head thrown back and looking upwards. This movement is echoed in the convoluted mass of Gaṇeśa, but the rest of this very high relief is sculpturally inert, without Sattva-guṇa and perturbed by the Rajo-guṇa. The dancing legs are correctly placed in the Svastika (l) and the Kuñcita pose (r) (‘Kāśyapaśilpa’, LXVII, 28), but fail to convey the movement of the dance.