The five sabhas where Shiva performed his cosmic dance
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The five sabhas where Shiva performed his cosmic dance

The Hindu  

March 06, 2024 06:58 pm | Updated March 07, 2024 11:05 am IST There are Shiva temples galore in Tamil Nadu, with some of them organised into clusters. The Padal Petra Sthalams are the temples wherein Shiva has been praised in the Tamil verses of the Nayanmars or the important Shiva devotees; the Pancha Bhuta Sthalam are five Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh associated with the five elements and the Pancha Sabhas are the five Shiva shrines which are the arenas of Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer. There are five sabhas namely the Chit Sabha, Kanaka Sabha, Nritta Sabha, Deva Sabha and Raja Sabha inside the Chidambaram temple. The sanctum called Nritta Sabha is for Urdhva Tandava Siva where Nataraja dances with one leg lifted vertically. This temple has a famous shrine for Vishnu, worshipped as Govindaraja Perumal, which is one of the 108 Divya Desams or Vishnu temples praised in the Tamil hymns of the Azhvars or Vaishnava saints.

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