COSMIC DANCE OF LORD SHIVA
Before learning about modern-day astronomy, let us understand ancient astronomy in ways our ancestors wanted to teach us. They had a vast knowledge on astronomy in comparison to what knowledge we have today. Our ancestors used the concept of astronomy while sculpturing idols of God's and Goddesses. They hid the Unified Theory of Cosmos, that our modern-day astronomers are struggling to formulate, behind these idols. In this article,we are going to witness some of the theories and terms that are hidden behind the famous idol of Nataraja,who is the avatar of Lord Shiva. In 2004, a Nataraja statue was placed in Centre for Research in Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, which has the world’s largest particle accelerator. It was gifted by the Indian government to the research centre on account of celebrating its long association with India. Carl Sagan compared the cosmic dance performed by Shiva with the modern study of the behaviour of subatomi