http://jaya6v.cgsociety.org/gallery/ jaya6v's gallery of images en-us 120 http://jaya6v.cgsociety.org/gallery/625045

Hi,
I ve been waiting to enter into the vast and amazing world of CG Society, I hope this is the right place to groom myself, The works and the artists here are very talented and amazing' am a bit nervous to post my work here.here iam posting my new work which i did last week. Hope U all like it, Your crits and comments would help me grow...

A short note on nataraja
Nataraja -"shiva(Lord of Dance)" The purpose of the dance is to release men from illusion of the idea of the "self" and of the physical world. The gestures of the dance represent Shiva's five activities, creation, protection, destruction, embodiment and release.

The upper right hand holds the drum from which creation issues forth. The lower right hand is raised in blessing, betokening preservation. The upper left hand holds a flame, which is destruction. The right leg,representing obscuring grace. The lower left hand gestures toward that holy foot in assurance that Siva's grace is the refuge for everyone.
The fiery ring surrounding Shiva, represents the universe with all its illusion, suffering and pain. The outer edge is fire the inner edge the waters of the oceans.Shiva's unkempt hair, a symbol of a rejection of society, shows him to be an ascetic.
The goddess of the Ganges is here shown nesting in Shiva's dreadlocks. The river Ganges that flows in Nataraja's hair originally flowed in heaven. When the heavenly Ganges was needed on earth, she was unwilling to fall to earth because she realized that her fall from heaven would be too much for the earth to withstand. Shiva(Nataraja) agreed to break the violent power of the sacred Ganga's fall by catching her in his tangled hair, breaking the fall with his hair on its way to the Himalayas and Northern India.
The crescent moon in his matted hair keeps Kama, the god of nightly love, alive.
Nataraja wears a snake coiled around his upper arms and neck symbolizing the power he has over the most deadly of creatures.
In the back right hand Shiva often holds an hour glass shaped drum. The drum represents the rhythmic sound to which Nataraja dances and ceaselessly recreates the universe.
The front right hand is in the abhaya-mudra (the "fear not" gesture, made by holding the palm outward with fingers pointing up).
The back left hand carries fire in a vessel. The flames represent the destructive energy with which Nataraja dances at the end of each cosmic age, cleansing sins and removing illusion.
His uplifted left foot, grants eternal bliss to those who approach him. The other foot treads firmly upon the dwarf of ignorance, allowing the birth of knowledge.
Nataraja dances above the body of the demon, whom he has killed; the dwarf demon, represents the ignorance of teaching that all opposites (for example good and evil) are false.]]> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:35:27 +0000