Indian dance

BASIC  OF  INDIAN  DANCE

       The conception of the Hindu art of dancing from the earliest time has been

 in the main spiritual.It has been necessary adjunct to religious rites from Vedic times.No wonder,divine origin is attributed to it, as having been invented by Brahma the lord of Creation himself,embodying in it the essence of the four Vadas and also as having been presented to the world by no less than Lord Siva and his consort Parwathee in the two characteristic forms of Tandava,the manly and forceful,and Lasya the Feminine and graceful.The close association of lord Siva with dance as Nataraja(king of dancer)with its all embracing Cosmic conception is of no ordinary significance to the art.Creation,preservation,activity and destruction are all            ''Nothing but a play of the will of the supreme being.naught is or moves but by hiss will''       A grand conception of this nature raises Indian art to magnification spiritual plane typical of all Hindu culture and has been a source of no small inspiration to the allied arts of painting,sculpture and iconography yo perpetuate or immoralities it by visual representation in stone,color and metal.

                                                                 
















                                                     by  K.A.H Kanchana
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