LEGEN ON BAS-RELIEF OF THE THIRD GOPURA

LEGEN ON BAS-RELIEF OF THE THIRD 

GOPURA

LEGEN ON BAS-RELIEF OF THE THIRD GOPURA

SIVA DANCES TO DESTROY THE KALIKALAMA YAKA 'S BEAU1Y

The   quarrel   happened   by   the   rulers   of   the   three   worlds   because   of   the beauty of KALIKALAMAYAKA,   a beautiful widow.  Even the celestial nymph at the heavens are also jealous of her beauty. The  fighting  is  about  to  be  occurred , but she  stops  it  on  time. By explaining them that if they want to see her beauty. She must  asks  SIVA 'S  permission  in  advance  . Because  her  beauty  has  never  been   seen and  cloth  covers  her  face  has  never  been  taken  off. So, she needs SIVA's blessing and wants to see 

SIVA's dance. SIVA realized her devotion  to  him  .  So , he  starts dancing  for the  need  of  KALIKALA YAKA ' s request  , the  dance  for  destroying   her beauty   .  this  dance  is  similar  to  SANDAVA  dance  ,  saving  the  world .  While   SIVA dancing:

SARAVADY, BRAHMA 's wife playing a quin LAKSMI, SIVA' S wife is a singer

DEVA bible producing the sound of music.

BRAHMA and RULERS of the three worlds, knocking the rhythm of music.

The dance destroys her beauty step by step, when the dance finished .she take off the cloth from her face. She becomes old, her face is wrinkled, she is over 100 years old. When all of them see her wrinkled face. They change their minds and return to their   residents.

The dance of SIVA on bas-relief depicting SIVA destroys the beauty of

KALIKALAMAYA is rare to be found in khmer art. Most of bas-reliefs of SIVA dance

represents the 5 powers of SIVA :

•CREATING THE WORLD

•DESTROYING  THE WORLD

•PRESERVING  THE WORLD

•SAVING THE WORLD

•EMINATIONS