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    Thillai Nataraja Temple, also referred as the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Nataraja, the form of Shiva as the lord of dance...
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    (The four) extol Nataraja and describes the Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram as the home of Nataraja as the main deity, dating Nataraja worship way before...
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    sheltering the presiding deity. The traditional name of the temple complex, Chidambaram Thillai Nataraja-koothan Kovil. The mangrove forests of Thillai trees...
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    fire at Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram. Nandar's tale features in temple lore and religious literature related to both these temples. Gopalakrishna...
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    dance form Bharatnatyam, which is depicted in temple statues in the Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram. Nataraja, the "Dancing King", is in turn an aspect of...
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    (representing water) at Jambukeswarar Temple, Thiruvanaikaval, Akaya Lingam (representing sky) at Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, Agni Lingam (representing...
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  • Thillai Kali Temple is a Hindu Temple located on the outskirts of the town of Chidambaram, Cuddalore District Tamil Nadu in India. It was built by Chola...
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    Thiruvathirai (Arudhra) in Tamil means "sacred big wave". In Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu, the Nataraja Temple's annual festival is celebrated on this date. In the...
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    Kulottunga II is credited with gilding the Perambalam of the Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram with gold. He is also said to have constructed its gopurams and...
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    Hayagriva (section Temples)
    [citation needed] Sri Lakshmi Hayagriva Temple, Thiruvaheendrapuram, Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu Sri Hayagreevar Temple, adjacent to Sri Koodal Alagar Perumal...
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    and classified as Paadal Petra Sthalam. Three temples in Tamil Nadu except the Chidambaram nataraja temple are maintained and administered by the Hindu...
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  • Natarajar in Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram Ekambareswarar in Ekambareswarar Temple (Kanchipuram) Arunachaleswarar in Arunachalesvara Temple Jambukeswarar...
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    precinct in Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram. Tradition attributes this discovery to Shiva's intervention. The temple priests of Chidambaram refused to let...
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    Shiva temples are Hindu temples with shrines of Shiva, one of Hinduism's principal deities. It is estimated that there are over 260 Shiva temples in the...
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    famously visited the Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, where he wrote the Charana Shrungarahita Stotram on Nataraja. In Kanda Puranam, the epic authored...
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    Ekambareswarar Temple, Akasa Lingam (representing sky) at Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, Agni Lingam (representing fire) at Annamalaiyar Temple and Vayu...
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  • O.Chidambaram Park Stadium, a football stadium in Tamil Nadu, India M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, a cricket stadium in Chennai, India Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram...
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  • Gopuram (category Hindu temple architecture)
    Tiruchendur Shree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Thiruvananthapuram Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram Yathothkari Perumal Temple, Kancheepuram Hampi Tirumala Kuala...
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    Meenakshi Amman Temple (velli – silver) and the Pon (Gold) Ambalam or PorSabhai at Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram. The temples where Shiva is believed...
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    chamber inside the second precinct in Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram. The brahmanas (Dikshitars) in the temple opposed the mission, but Rajaraja intervened...
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  • goes to Chidambaram temple, built on the spot were Lord Siva was supposed to have been, transformed from the primordial phallus to the Nataraja, the cosmic...
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    chamber inside the second precinct in Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram. The brahmanas (Dikshitars) in the temple opposed the mission, but Rajaraja intervened...
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    gopuram, the main gateway. The temple has a number of shrines, with those of Swetharanyesarar, Aghora and that of Nataraja, being the most prominent. All...
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    - 18th C. in Bharatnatyam dance statues of Eastern Gopuram, Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram Tulasana तुलासन Balance / Scales Balancing 20th C. LoY Upavishta...
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    represents one of the five Pancha Sabhas of Nataraja - Chitra Sabhai. The five dance halls of Shiva are Chidambaram, Madurai, Thiruvalangadu, Tirunelveli and...
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    Pasupathipuram, and Melai Chidambaram. The temple was built by the Chola emperor Karikala in the 9th century. Perur Pateeswarar Temple has several gopurams...
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    Nadu (4 chariots) Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (Koniamman Temple) Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu (Nataraja Temple) Dindigul (Abiramiyamman Kovil) Denkanikottai (Betarayaswamy...
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    Govindaraja Perumal Temple, also called Thiruchitrakoodam, is a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, situated in Chidambaram, a town in the South...
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  • significance with this temple. In this temple Lord Shiva is an embodiment of the infinite space. Chidambaram temple is associated with Lord Nataraja, or Shiva in...
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    Shiva (section Temple)
    the hymn of Manikkavacakar's Thiruvasagam, he testifies that Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram had, by the pre-Chola period, an abstract or 'cosmic' symbolism...
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