dance poses

Ganapati is also the Lord of the Ganas the keep dancing Siva company. Tandu who has codified Shiva’s Tandava Karanas by careful observation, belong to the dancing group of Ganas.

But Ganapati was an actual performer and a participant of the Sandya (evening) Tandava of Siva.

Nirutha Ganapati or the dancing image of Vinayakar, which is a very rare pose, can be seen in the stone sculpure collection of the Art Gallery.

The creation of the dancing aspect to Gods, Vinayakar, Nataraja, Kali (Parvati) and others in the Hindu pantheon was to make God-devotion, pleasant and refreshing.1

  1. see Rathnasabapathy, S., The Thanjavur Art Gallery – Bronze Sculptures – (A Discriptive Catalogue with Illustrations in Colour) – Volume-I, 2009, p. 2 ↩