Tanjore 1000 year celebration

[Eastern Mind]

Vannakkam: This year the Tamil Nadu government will help celebrate the Big temple's 1000 anniversary. Amazing! It is truly a wonder of architecture.

http://purefriendship.sulekha.com/bl...rns-out-to.htm

http://www.view360.in/virtualtour/thanjavur/ This virtual 360 tour is also amazing.

Aum Namasivaya

[Eastern Mind]

Vannakkam: On another thread (the one about energy) Saidevo mentions the agamic architecture. For the drawing of Tanjore its really clear. A perfect domino, with the sanctum being at the middle of the furthest square from the distance.

Aum Namasivaya

[saidevo]

namaste.

The Hindu upaveda 'NATya shAstra' describes how Shiva taught the 108 karaNas--movements, of the BharatanATyam dance to Bharata muni, author of the shAstra. Dr. PadmA SubrahmaNyan, the world-renowned BharatanATyam dancer, researcher and exponent, did her PhD thesis on these 108 karaNas, researching the dance sculptures in the Shiva temples at Chidambaram, KumbakoNam and ThanjAvUr.

Her profile in the Website http://www.narthaki.com/info/profiles/profil10.html says:
"She has designed the sculptures of the 108 Karanas of Lord Siva and Godess Parvati in black granite for the Nataraja temple at Satara in Maharashtra, an undertaking she took on at Kanchi Paramacharya's bidding. She was asked to freeze those movements of the Karanas, which are not sculpted in the older temples of Tanjore or Chidambaram. She has made use of the twin figures of Siva and Parvati to bring out the animation of each of the Karana movements. "

In the BRhadIshvara temple at ThanjAvUr, King RAjarAja Chozha has installed only 81 scupltures of the dance karaNas, leaving out the remaining 27 for reasons unknown. Dr.PadmA has offered to complete the series for the occasiion of the temple's 1000th anniversary celebrations. However, since the temple is a protected site under the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, it may not be possible to install new scupltures, so Dr.PadmA has suggested that the authorities could consider setting up portraits to show these missing karaNas.

[Eastern Mind]

Vannakkam: One thousand dancers? I can't imagine what that will look like. When I was there there was an evening Bharatya Natyam performance. Lots of people just sat back on the grassy areas on the sides. I've seen the 108 Tandava dance poses in brass. Some of them look rather difficult.

Aum Namasivaya

[kahanam]

It was indeed held.In connection with Raja Raja Chola's 1000th year of coronation, 1000 dancers danced in the courtyard of the Thanjavur Sri Brahadeeswara Temple to the music and songs praising the Lord! It was a grand spectacle!

[Eastern Mind]

It was indeed held.In connection with Raja Raja Chola's 1000th year of coronation, 1000 dancers danced in the courtyard of the Thanjavur Sri Brahadeeswara Temple to the music and songs praising the Lord! It was a grand spectacle!

Vannakkam: Were you there?

Aum Namasivaya