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from explaining all these dance modes, except nine specified dance
mode identical to Siva Nataraja.
The iconography of Siva tandava or Nataraja can
generally be traced in different Puranas and Tantric text. In this
connection the south Indian Saiva agamas are more vocal in
describing the Nataraja images specially, the Koyil Purana and
its successive esoteric literature like, Amsumadbhedagama,
Kamikagama Purva, Silparatna, Suprabhedagama etc.74
Accordingly, the Nataraja images describe in the
Uttara-kamikagama as four armed, three eyed and having brown and
scattered clotted hair hanging over both side and back. Jahnavi is waiting
by his right hand side with folded hand. 75 With all these the
apasmarapurusha are always there under his feet.
Another four handed description of Nataraja is being
founded in Purva- Karanagama that he is three eyed, four armed
with peacock feather and having chest like that of an osprey and scattered
hair locks (Jata). Jahnavi is visible on the right top of his Jatamukuta. By
his left ear, he wears a leaf like ear ring and by the right is a crocodile
like ..... his right hand hold the gesture of abhaya, the little drum is
on the right hand and the fire pot on the left.
76 On the other hand, the treatise like the Kurma Purana
described Nataraja as being a deity of thousand armed.
The
Matshya Purana on the other hand, described Rudra as an eight
armed deity but, while the same god is in the mood of tandava
74. Sastri, S.N. Ghoshal: Op-cit, Vol. II, 1983, 1965, p.295.
75.
Ibid, 290.
76.
Ibid, 292.
77.
Ibid, p.261.