Description acceptable. This artistic subject names a collection of fourteen essays by Ananda Coomaraswamy, (15[1])who inspired an essay (15[1])on this motif by Auguste Rodin that claims there is “grace in elegance, but beyond grace there is (-5[1])perfection.” Vidya Dehejia’s The Sensuous and the Sacred details Queen Sembiyaṉ Mahādēvi’s patronage of this motif, which names a colorful lozenge painting by Bridget Riley. Temple carvings in Chidambaram depict 108 forms of this (-5[1])subject taken from an aesthetics treatise by Bharata. Two (*) arms of this motif’s central figure (10[1])form the abhaya and gajahasta mudrās (10[1])and the other two (10[1])hold a flame (10[1])and a (10[1])ḍamaru drum, (10[1])while the left leg crosses his body (10[1])and his right leg tramples the dwarf Apasmāra. For 10 points, a ring of flame often surrounds what subject of many Chōḻa bronzes, a Hindu symbol of primordial annihilation and regeneration? ■END■ (10[1])