* Nandi a bull that serves Lord Shiva in Hindu mythology.

The Hoysalas usually dedicated their temples to Lord Shiva or to Lord Vishnu ( two of the major Hindu gods ), but they occasionally chose a different deity.

The names of Shiva temples can end with the suffix eshwara meaning " Lord of ".

The two main deities found in Hoysala temple sculpture are Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu in their various forms and avatars ( incarnations ).

Various depictions of Lord Shiva show him in action, such as slaying a demon or dancing on the head of an elephant.

Nataraja, Lord Shiva as the Cosmic Dancer representing the rhythmic movement of the entire cosmos.

Nataraja or Nataraj, (), The Lord ( or King ) of Dance ; Telugu: నటర ా జ ; Tamil: க ூ த ் தன ் ( Koothan ); Kannada: ನಟರ ಾ ಜ, is a depiction of the god Shiva as the cosmic dancer who performs his and divine dance to destroy a weary universe and make preparations for the god Brahma to start the process of creation.

Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance.

* As the Lord of Dance, Nataraja, Shiva performs the tandava, the dance in which the universe is created, maintained, and dissolved.

Nataraj is a visual interpretation of Brahman and a dance posture of Lord Shiva.

The image of the Lord as the Cosmic Dancer is shown at the Chidambaram temple, an unusual fact as Shiva is depicted in an anthropomorphic form rather than in the usual non-anthropomorphic form of the linga.

Srisailam, one of the twelve jyotirlingas, has an ancient temple for Lord Shiva.

* Trimbakeshwar ( 10th Jyotirliga of Lord Shiva )

He worshipped Lord Shiva and requested him to bring the Ganga to purify his hermitage.

* Trimbakeshwar-One of the twelve Jyotirlingas and ancient temple of Lord Shiva.

In Hindu mythology the whole universe is the dance of the Supreme Dancer, Nataraja, a name for Lord Shiva, the Hindu ascetic yogi and divine purveyor of destruction of evil.

* Angikam-This is a devotional song on Lord Shiva and an item dance in bharatnatyam.

In Hinduism, the god Shiva is simultaneously destroyer and creator, portrayed as Shiva Nataraja ( Lord of the Dance ), which is proposed as the source of the Western notion of " creative destruction ".

Lord Shiva granted him this position, as well as his position as one of the Navagrahas ( Nine Planets ).

Chandra Shekara literally refers to the ' Person who wears the moon ' which links to Lord Shiva in Hindu Mythology.

Terrified and with remorse the others propitiated Lord Shiva and begged his mercy to restore Daksha's life and to allow the sacrifice to be completed.

The brethren were pleased with the Emperor's letter, but Anthony did not pay any attention to it, and he said to them, " The books of God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, commands us every day, but we do not heed what they tell us, and we turn our backs on them.

* " The boldness of our love is pleasing to you, O Lord, just as it pleased you that we should steal from your bounty.

The usual wording of official announcements of this nature was " The King has been pleased to appoint ...", but on this occasion the announcement said merely " The King has appointed ...", and his Private Secretary Lord Stamfordham asked the Solicitor-General, Sir Robert Garran, to make sure Scullin was aware of the exact wording.

He performed a Yagnya with such great devotional fervour that Lord Narayan was pleased to bless him with Sudarshana Chakra ( Sudarshana meaning " good looking ") and which manifested as a wheel of prosperity, peace and security to his kingdom.

One version tells that the asura Bhasmasura had so pleased Lord Shiva with his austerities that Shiva gave him a boon of anything he wished.

Seeing the decorum of Lord Vishnu, Bhrigu was pleased and declared him superior amongst the Tridev.

According to local tradition, Lord Coleraine was so well pleased by this that he sent a fine bell to the townspeople for their new meeting house.

Barnett also gives the text of a document from 1769 in the records of the Gilead Lutheran Church " When it had pleased the Almighty and Merciful God in His goodness to plant the Evangelical Lutheran Church in this American part of the world also, and especially in the State of New York, during the reign of Queen Anna, and also in this neighborhood and district called Hosek Road, in Rensselaerwyck, Albany County, then more than twenty years ago, a small body of adherents of the above said Lutheran church, disposed to that end did build and erect a prayer and church House to the Honor of God, and for their convenience, upon that lot of ground which our most worthy Patroon generously gave to promote and perpetuate the service of God and for the better maintenance of our preacher, for which purpose he presented us with a Deed of Gift which We acknowledge with heartfelt thanks towards our Good Lord in Heaven, and that in addition He grants us all hereabouts by His grace that we through the permission of the Government are allowed to carry on our pure Lutheran Church service free and without hindrance.

Carteret was a profuse and popular Lord Lieutenant who pleased both the English interest and the native Irish.

* In Ultima III: Exodus, according to interviewer Shay Addams, " Garriott was less than pleased " to learn that some players had a found a way to kill Lord British.

It is reported that upon hearing of the fleet's destruction, King Charles realized how serious was his plight and exclaimed " Lord God, since it has pleased You to ruin my fortune, let me only go down in small steps.

In Tretayuga Mahamuni Kasyapa Brahma performed yagna and pleased Lord Mallikarjuna Swamy thus this place is named as ‘ Yagnavatika Jonnawada ’.

Randall Jarrell praised the book, writing, " It is unusually difficult to say which are the best poems in Lord Weary's Castle: several are realized past changing, successes that vary only in scope and intensity -- others are poems that almost any living poet would be pleased to have written.

" Lord Stamfordham then went back to the petitioners and told them, " the King has been graciously pleased to grant your request.

: Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to call to His Mercy our late Sovereign Lord King George the Sixth of Blessed and Glorious memory, by whose Decease the Crown is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary: WE, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm, being here assisted with these His late Majesty's Privy Council, with representatives of other Members of the Commonwealth, with other Principal Gentlemen of Quality, with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of London, do now hereby with one voice and Consent of Tongue and Heart publish and proclaim that the High and Mighty Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary is now, by the death of our late Sovereign of happy memory, become Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of all Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to whom Her lieges do acknowledge all Faith and constant Obedience with hearty and humble Affection, beseeching God by whom Kings and Queens do reign, to bless the Royal Princess Elizabeth the Second with long and happy Years to reign over us.

Lord Shiva was pleased with the Sati's worship of him and married her.

They were none too pleased when humans began colonizing the planet, and a smoldering guerrilla war lasted for many centuries before the Coronal Lord Stiamot rounded up and evicted the Metamorphs from Alhanroel.

Lord Shiva was pleased with the moon's prayer and restored its shine.

In addition, the Lord Proprietor could summon any delegates whom he was pleased to select.

Before news of his death had reached London, the secretary of state, Lord Nottingham, wrote to Benbow in January 1703 to inform him that the queen was " extremely well pleased with your conduct and much offended with the baseness of those officers who deserted and betrayed you.

But Amba, now her predicament unchanged, did severe penance to please Lord Shiva ( as he is most easily pleased and could give anything to anyone ).

Saint Basil the Great († 379 ), a saint of undivided Christianity, writes in his Third Kneeling Prayer at Pentecost O Christ our God ...( who ) on this all-perfect and saving Feast, art graciously pleased to accept propitiatory prayers for those who are imprisoned in hades, promising unto us who are held in bondage great hope of release from the vilenes that doth hinder us and did hinder them ... send down Thy consolation ... and establish their souls in the mansions of the Just ; and graciously vouchsafe unto them peace and pardon ; for not the dead shall praise thee, O Lord, neither shall they who are in Hell make bold to offer unto thee confession.

When Vishnu was pleased with Dhruva's tapasya and asked him to ask for a varadāna ( grant of wishes ), Dhruva said that he ( being an uneducated child ) did not know how to sing the praise of Lord Vishnu, and therefore asked the varadāna of a knowledge of stuti ( hymn in the praise of Vishnu ).