Doctrine · Nataraja · Page 5 of 7 · Anugraha · Act V
தூக்கிய திருவடி
The raised foot is the door
The Chola bronze names one act with a limb that is NOT in contact with the plinth. Anugraha — grace — is what is offered, not what is done. The kuñcita-pāda is the door. Māṇikkavācakar reads it plainly: தூக்கிய திருவடி அடைக்கலம் — "the raised foot is refuge."
A doctrine that reads saṃhāra as containment (contained fire) and tirobhāva as archive (muyalaka) must, by the diagram's own grammar, end with an open door. Ego-scaled fire closes doors. This doctrine ends with a door.