Indian dancing
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By courtesy Dut Ltd., from the film ‘Our India’, Photo: Colin Tait
Ram Gopal in the Cosmic Dance of Shiva, depicting creation, which is symbolized by the
gesture of “alapadama’ — the opening of a lotus flower. The ‘rasa is ‘adbhuta’, or wonderment,
and shows the gentler aspects of Shiva, as he slowly rises and performs his Dance of the Setting Sun, to the music of flute, veena, and drums, and the chanting of hymns
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