Ayyappan is believed to be an incarnation of Dharma Sasta, who is the offspring of Shiva and Vishnu ( as Mohini, is the only female avatar of the God Vishnu ) and is generally depicted in a yogic posture, wearing a bell around his neck, hence named Manikantan.

The King regarded Manikantan as his elder son.

The King's corrupt Minister had a deep dislike for Manikantan, and made the innocent Queen believe that ill would befall her if Manikantan was crowned Yuvaraja and that the kingdom actually belonged to her son.

They conspired to get rid of Manikantan by hook or crook.

However, the youthful and valiant Manikantan stepped forth and volunteered to fetch the milk.

Days later, Manikantan entered the palace precincts riding a fierce tigress and followed by a pack of its cubs.

They and others now knew that Manikantan was no ordinary being.

However, Manikantan was now determined to leave the place.

Filled with happiness, grief, fear, wonder and ' bhakthi ' ( devotion to God ) and self-surrender, the king prayed for the mercy and blessings of Manikantan.

Manikantan then blessed the King and all others assembled there, and vanished.

Legend also goes to say that Manikantan was the incarnation of Lord Dharma Sastha.

He flexed his muscles for several minutes, got into the tub, and then grew self-conscious of splashing as he washed.

When Beckett's name came into the discussion, the priest grew loud and told me that Beckett `` hates life ''.

This grew into the song `` Big Time Comin' ''.

This enterprise led to a father-and-son combination beginning in 1833, under the name D. Brown & Son, a business which eventually grew into the modern corporation we now call Brown & Sharpe.

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

As he grew into his teens, he willingly took responsibility for all chores expected of him as one of the boys in the household and became an adept axeman in his work building rail fences.

The immediate influence of Aristotle's work was felt as the Lyceum grew into the Peripatetic school.

After Thomas Aquinas wrote his theology, working from Moerbeke's translations, the demand for Aristotle's writings grew and the Greek manuscripts returned to the West, stimulating a revival of Aristotelianism in Europe that continued into the Renaissance.

That program grew into the AFI Conservatory, a fully accredited graduate film school, located in the hills above Hollywood, CA.

He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by his recalcitrant insubordination.

With money flowing into Olynthus from these exports, their power grew.

Spalding's store grew rapidly over the next 25 years, with 14 stores by 1901, expanded from retail into manufacturing baseball equipment and is still a going concern.

In addition Spencer though that as all intuitions grew they become evermore corrupted by the influence of power and money, eventually losing its “ original spirit, and sinks into a lifeless mechanism ”.

* It was also during the 1990s that the anime craze grew out of video games, and the youth group known as otaku began to pour into Akihabara.

During the sojourn in the city ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá grew from a boy into a young man.

On both sides of the road, the local settlement, Bonna, grew into a sizeable Roman town.

In 1975, MITS released Altair BASIC, developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as the company Micro-Soft, which grew into today's corporate giant, Microsoft.

Approximately 10 < sup >− 37 </ sup > seconds into the expansion, a phase transition caused a cosmic inflation, during which the Universe grew exponentially.

Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.

The end result of Andreyev's labours was the establishment of an orchestral folk tradition in Tsarist Russia, which later grew into a movement within the Soviet Union.

In what became Yugoslavia after the war, the White Hand grew into an essential piece of the state's machinery.

In the first millennium AD, an urban tradition developed in the Khmer region of Cambodia, where Angkor grew into one of the largest cities ( in area ) of the world.

UNTAC grew into a 22, 000-strong civilian and military peacekeeping force to conduct free and fair elections for a constituent assembly.

Although most early codices were made of papyrus, papyrus was fragile and supplies from Egypt, the only place where papyrus grew and was made into paper, became scanty ; the more durable parchment and vellum gained favor, despite the cost.

A teenage boy buried approximately 1550 BC was raised near the Mediterranean Sea ; a metal worker from 2300 BC dubbed the " Amesbury Archer " grew up near the alpine foothills of Germany ; and the " Boscombe Bowmen " probably arrived from Wales or Brittany, France.

She and Marshall had been unable to have children, and when she brought the baby home, Marshall told her that she could " keep him, provided he did not squall ..." Marshall grew to love the boy and wrote that he " never walked the streets of Washington with as sure a certainty as he walked into my heart ", and, as the boy grew older, that he was " beautiful as an angel ; brilliant beyond his years ; lovable from every standpoint.

As a boy he was strong and healthy, but as he grew up he was attacked by a long and severe illness, which left him weak all his life.

The boy grew up to be a blacksmith like his father, but in his free time he roamed the Land of Faery.

* Ymir had three direct offspring: a boy and girl who grew from beneath his arms and a six-headed son who sprang from the coupling of his feet.

Martin grew up in a Roman Catholic home and was an altar boy throughout his childhood.

This boy grew strong, nourished by the strength of the earth, the ice-cold sea, and the blood of swine.

: a girl and boy grew together ;

As King Zheng grew older, Lü Buwei became fearful that the boy king would discover his liaison with his mother Zhào Jī ( 趙姬 ).

Bow discovered that as she grew into womanhood, her stature as a " boy " in her old gang would be " impossible ".

The boy grew up to be a hot tar watcher.

In 1883 the son of an Irish immigrant, Patrick Jay Hurley, grew up struggling as a miner in the nearby town of Lehigh, Ok. Hurley befriended an Indian boy who later became principal chief of the Choctaws and was allowed to use the family library for his studies.

The boy grew up a farmer in this rural, isolated environment.

In the book, Oppenheimer claims that Ken Handler " grew up embarrassed and humiliated by having an anatomically incorrect boy doll named after him with no hint of genitalia.

Soccer is one of his passions ; he started playing soccer with his father when he was a little boy and it grew to be his favorite sport and one that would take him to other countries around the world.

In 1912 he and another boy scout were granted an audience with king Gustaf V. When Johansson grew older he lived a life in crime and was convicted several times for theft and fraud.

He grew up in Zanesville, a city founded by his maternal great-grandfather Ebenezer Zane, an American Revolutionary War patriot ; from an early age, the boy was intrigued by history.

The boy grew up to be a blacksmith.

You may find interesting stories on the website containing the biography of Ravindran Raghavan (), a native Kluang boy who grew in a rubber estate.

In reviewing Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life by biographer Jens Andersen, British journalist Anne Chisholm writes “ Andersen himself was a tall, ugly boy with a big nose and big feet, and when he grew up with a beautiful singing voice and a passion for the theater he was cruelly teased and mocked by other children ".