Nataraja
Proper noun
Meaning
Nataraja
(Hinduism) The dancing posture of the Hindu god Shiva, who performs his divine dance as a part of his activities of creation and destruction.
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Examples
That ‘‘friendliness’’ is what Australia itself did to India when returning the Shiva Nataraja statue from the National Gallery of Australia, a case not mentioned by Robertson, who focuses on Australia as the victim of looting, rather than its perpetrator.
Nataraja is a visual interpretation of Brahman and a dance posture of Lord Shiva.