The Colas c36.79

c36.79

Fig. 64. Naṭarāja. Bronze. Velāṅgaṇṇi, Tanjore District. Now in the Government Museum, Madras. This is another complete and beautiful example. Has become widely known through the writing of the great French artist A. Rodin. It is very similar to the one from Tanjore noticed above. But here the details such as the *prabhā*, the *padmāsana*, Apasmāra Puruṣa and ornaments are simpler than in the Tanjore Naṭarāja. This fact may suggest that this figure is earlier than the Tanjore one, by a few decades or years.