Chandra Bhaga (Tragic Love). The dance re-enacts the episode behind the creation of the Great Sun Temple (Black Pagoda) of Konark in Orissa. (The dance depicts the pathos of the tragic end of the maiden Chandrabhaga and the heart rendering remorse of the sun-god). Chandrabhaga, (Moon Maiden) daughter of Sage Sumanya is playfully enjoying innocent pleasure of the sea shore at dawn near Konark, sometimes picking up pebbles andsea shells, sometimes chasing the waves andwading through the on rusingsea waters bathing, dressing and doing her toiletary, coiffeur and beautifying herself. The Sun Gud descends in his seven horsed-drawn heavenly chariot and peeps through the eastern horizen and the Sun-God's first vision is dazzled by the sight of Chandrabhaga's ravising beauty while she in her turn is dazzled by the passion bright piercing rays of sun. Kamadeva (God of Love-Cupid) chose this moment to take his revenge and prove his superiority even over the powerful Sun-God, and loosens two opposite flowery shafts of love and hate (attraction and repulsion) on the Moon Maiden and Sun-God. With the passion arouses in his heart the Sun-God vigorously wooes and relentlessly pursues Chandrabhaga, while she tries her best to repel his advances with all chaste and maidenly decorum. Ultimately failing in all her remostrances prefers death to dishonour and ends her life in the depth of the surging ocean. The Sun-God is first smitten with frustration of unrequited love then with deep remorse for his responsibility for the tragic end of an innocent maiden. The dance depicts with grace and beauty the pathos of love and hate, of passion and virtue, of attraction and repulsion, of remorse and tragedy in all their subleties and proved the ultimate triumph of chastity even over the brute passions of the Gods. It is said that the great temple at Konark was built at the confluence of the River Chandrabhaga and the sea, the place of Chandrabhaga's tragic death. The Sun-God, stricken with remorse, has performed penance there for ages.