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dance, the treatise prescribed him as being a ten armed deity.78
Over and above, the description of a two handed Nataraja is being found
in Suprabhedagama where the Lord of fine art kept his right hand in
abhya mudra and holds a small drum in his left hand.79 Thus, the
Nataraja may have the composition of two to eighteen hands, but
the most popularly appreciated form of this deity generally have
ten arms. 80 Accordingly, the Nataraja images may be of thousand
armed, sixteen armed, ten armed four armed and two armed etc.
Depending on number of hands there is a sharp difference between
north Indian and south Indian Nataraja images. Accordingly the
south Indian Nataraja are mainly of four to two arms composition
and apasmarapurusha under their feet. 81 On the other hand, the
north Indian Nataraja are mostly multi armed ordinarily eight to
eighteen and they refuse to have any apasmarapurusha under
his feet. 82 Now coming to the point of emblem the Nataraja images
are mainly the beholder of dambaru, abhya mudra, fire pot,
sankha, sakti, danda, traisula, kapala, naga, khatvanga etc. In
this connection it should also be remembered that according to
the Matshya Purana the four armed and eight armed Rudra
generally have a special appellation of Janana Yogesvara.
83 With these brief discussion, the present condition as
well as the iconographical status of the two Nataraja images from
Madan-Kamdeva are as follows:
78. Ibid., 257.
79.
Ibid. 292.
80.
Ibid, p.261.
81. Ibid, p. 254.
82.
Ibid.
83.
Ibid, p.257.
84. Ibid. p. 292.