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"Well sir, why does this idol seem to be dancing?" The headmaster explained:
"Whenever the time of Pralaya (deluge) comes, Shiva is entrusted with this function; the earth starts rolling."
Just as they were in conversation, all of a sudden the earth started rolling in a terror-striking manner; there were tremors even inside the cave. The headmaster ordered : "All of you come together! The earth is rolling. There is an earthquake! Be not frightened!"
The road was passing through the outskrits of the town. The people of the town could decipher whether there were passengers or travellers in the bus. The bus stood at a distance of half a kilometre. Teachers and pupils now went walking. All were interested in and anxious about the idols, what these were, whose and in what number. They were also interested in observing the carving on the stones of the mountain, the age of the caves and so on. In the end, 103 teachers and students stood at the entrance of the cave.
Was it possible to pass through the underground passage? No one knew that. But expert engravers had made the carvings in such a manner that streaks of sunlight were visible at so many spots. Students entered into cave with principal. They saw first of all Shri Ganesh (Ganpati) statue having one mouth with four dimensional body. From any angle mouth was looking in front side in the cave. They also saw the statues of Bhagwan Vishnu, Jain Tirthankar Mahavir and dancing statue of Bhagwan Mahesh in Tandav Mudra. One student asked teacher why this statue seemed to be dancing? In reply to this question the principal explained to the student that whenever the time of death of this earth comes Bhagwan Mahesh, the God of destruction handles entire procecution of demise of earth. The whole earth starts
