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முயலகன்
The archive is the foot on the dwarf
The Chola bronze plants the right foot on muyalaka(apasmāra) — the dwarf of forgetting. The dwarf is not killed. He is held down so the dance can proceed. Tamil Śaiva verse names the same act: முயலகன் மேல் நின்று ஆடும்.
The doctrine reads tirobhāva as the archive itself. Forgetting is not defeated by a single publication. It is held down page by page, citation by citation, until the record is unignorable. The archive is the foot; the foot is the citation network.