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| The roof of
the temple is gold-plated. Hence it is called Ponnambalam, (Pon=gold, Ambalam = temple).
The conception of the idol of Nataraja, which has been claimed in the civilized world as
the greatest work of Oriental art, is not merely a stroke of the imagination of an artist,
but is a monument of the inner vision of the artist devotee, who could conceive the image
of Lord Siva as He revealed Himself to him. Modern
scientists accept that each atom is nothing but a microscopic indivisible particle of God
in perpetual motion in a circle. If there is such a motion there must be a Mover. If the
Mover is immanent He must be in motion too. With this conception in mind the artist must
have prayed for ages for getting the Divine revelation to put it into a concrete
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