Lord Shiva therefore appeared before the king's two widowed queens and commanded them, " You two make love together and by my blessings you will bear a beautiful son.

Kuti Axis ( I ): Shree Krishna Shah was the Commander and Kaji Ranajit Pandey, Sardar Parath Bhandari, Captain Harsa Panta, Captain Naharsingh Basnyat and Captain Shiva Narayan Khatri were the subordinate commanders under him.

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

Bhuvaneswari Devi accepted the child as a boon from Shiva and named him Vireswara, meaning " powerful god " in Bengali.

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

Ganesha worshippers would connect themselves with Shiva as Shiva is the father of Ganesha, making him a Shaiv deity.

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

Daksha forbade it, but she disobeyed him and did so anyway, finding in Shiva a doting and loving husband.

Daksha disliked Shiva intensely, calling him a dirty, roaming ascetic and reviling the great yogi's cohort of goblins and ghouls.

Sati / Dakshayani later incarnated as Parvati in her next life, and remarried Shiva, henceforth never to part with him again.

As the conflict developed among the Jamadagni and the King, Kartavirya Arjuna lost his cool and chopped off the head of Jamadagni. When Parashurama ( Jamadagni's son and one of the DaśāvatārasVishnu ) returned to the hermitage, he was informed of the context by his mother. In revenge, Parashurama killed the entire clan of Kartavirya Arjuna and the King with the axe given to him by Shiva, thus conquering the entire earth, which he gave to Brahamanas.

Virabhadra, a great powerful hero created by Shiva, once blinded him.

When Sati grew up she set her heart on Shiva, worshipping him in secret.

Then the devas including Brahma asked the forgiveness of lord Shiva and invited him to the yagna.

There Daksha looked on him with reverence, the rite was duly performed, and then all the gods and rishis saluted Shiva and departed to their places.

Shiva, annoyed by Ravana's arrogance, pressed his littlest Toe on Kailash, pinning him firmly and painfully under it.

He plucked his nerves and used them as strings to compose music and sang songs praising Shiva, and is said to have done so for years until Shiva released him from his bondage.

Pleased with his resilience and devotion, Shiva gave to him the divine sword Chandrahas ( Chandra-Moon, Has-laugh, literally ' the laughter of the moon ' but referring to the shape formed by a crescent moon which resembles a smile ).

Lord Shiva appeared before Ravana and asked him what he wanted.

As a result of this plot, Ravana asks for Goddess Parvathi, and Lord Shiva offers him.

Lord Shiva agreed to give him the boon with a condition that it should never be placed on the ground.

The Padma Purana says that Kubera prayed to Shiva for many years, and Shiva granted him the kingship of Yakshas.

In a variant myth, Andhaka is raised by Shiva and Parvati, but becomes smitten with his mother and attempts to rape her, leading Shiva to tear him apart.

The Bhagavata Purana ( Canto 7 ), Agni Purana ( 4. 2-3 ), Brahmanda Purana ( 2. 5. 3-29 ), Vayu Purana ( 67. 61-66 ), Harivamsa ( 41 & 3. 41-47 ), Brahma Purana ( 213. 44-79 ), Vishnudharmottara Purana ( 1. 54 ), Kurma Purana ( 1. 15. 18-72 ), Matsya Purana ( 161-163 ), Padma Purana ( Uttara-khanda 5. 42 ), Shiva Purana ( 2. 5. 43 & 3. 10-12 ), Linga Purana ( 1. 95-96 ), Skanda Purana 7 ( 2. 18. 60-130 ) and Vishnu Purana ( 1. 16-20 ) all contain depictions of the Narasimha Avatar.

Scriptural texts chanted in Siddha Yoga ashrams and meditation centers include the morning and evening Arati ; the Guru Gita, a hymn of 182 verses transmitted in the Skanda Purana ; Shree Rudram, an ancient hymn to Rudra ( Shiva ) preserved in the Krishna Yajurveda ; and the Kundalini Stavaha, an eight-stanza hymn to the Kundalini.

It consists of over three thousand verses dealing with various aspects of spirituality, ethics and praise of the God Shiva.

Paadal Petra Sthalams are 275 temples that are revered in the verses of Tevaram and are amongst the greatest Shiva temples of the continent.

The Shiva Sutras ( IAST: ; Devanāgarī: ) or Māheshvara Sutras ( Devanāgarī: म ा ह े श ् वर स ू त ् र ा ण ि) are fourteen verses that organize the phonemes of the Sanskrit language as referred to in the of, the foundational text of Sanskrit grammar.

The introductory verses to each of the eight Books in his Rajatarangini are prefaced with prayers to Shiva, a Hindu deity.

On this mountain he is said to have found verses inscribed on a rock, the Shiva Sutras, which outline the teachings of Shaiva monism.

Since the invocatory and final verses evoke the god Shiva, he was most probably a Shaivite.

Its hundred and three shlokas ( verses ) eulogize the beauty, grace and munificence of Goddess Parvati / Dakshayani, consort of Shiva.

Thus, verses 1-41 are the original work of Lord Shiva, shedding great light on the ancient rituals of Tantra, Yantra and various powerful Mantras.

A famous tympanum from Banteay Srei depicts Shiva sitting on Mount Kailasa with his consort, while the demon king Ravana shakes the mountain from below.

The Shiva Pashupati, seal with the seated Shiva figure termed Pashupati

In Hinduism, Sacred Feminine or Shaktism is one of the three major Hindu denominations of worship along with Vishnu and Shiva.

Shiva likewise pairs with Parvati who later is represented through a number of Avatars ( incarnations ): Sati and the warrior figures, Durga and Kali.

Though Hinduism is commonly represented by anthropomorphic religious images, aniconism is equally represented with such abstract symbols of God such as the Shiva linga and the saligrama.

The final stage is Samādhi — Union with the All, it is considered to be the utmost level of awareness that one could possibly achieve, according to Hindu mythology, one of their main three deities, Shiva, had mastered this and thus was bestowed upon with stupendous power and control.

In particular the Shiva Sutras, an auxiliary text to the Ashtadhyayi, introduces what can be considered a list of the phonemes of the Sanskrit language, with a notational system for them that is used throughout the main text, which deals with matters of morphology, syntax and semantics.

* Saul Williams mentions Biko along with other notable figures such as Buddha, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Khalil Gibran, Shiva in the song " Coded Language ".

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

Shiva is usually shown with four arms holding a trident and a small drum among other emblems that symbolise objects worshiped independently of the divine image with which they are associated.

Any male icon portrayed in this way is Shiva although a female icon may sometimes be portrayed with these attributes as Shiva's consort, Parvati.

The sculpture is usually made in bronze, with Shiva dancing in an aureole of flames, lifting his left leg ( or in rare cases, the right leg ) and balancing over a demon or dwarf ( Apasmara ) who symbolizes ignorance.

A special plaque next to the Shiva statue explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmic dance with quotations from Fritjof Capra: " Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes.

Lord Shiva pleased with the rishi appeared as Triambaka and brought along the river Ganga.

Brightling's company is developing a highly contagious strain of the Ebola virus, called " Shiva ," with the ability to kill every human being on the planet.

The accounts of the emergence of life within the universe vary in description, but classically the god Brahma, from a Trimurti of three gods also including Vishnu and Shiva, is described as performing the act of creation, or more specifically of " propagating life within the universe " with the other two deities being responsible for preservation and destruction ( of the universe ) respectively.

Bharatanatyam proper is a solo dance, with two aspects, lasya, the graceful feminine lines and movements, and tandava Ananda Thandavam ( Tamil ) ( the dance of Shiva ), masculine aspect, which is identical to the Yin and Yang in the Chinese culture.

Brahmins associated naga with Shiva and with Vishnu, who rested on a 100 headed naga coiled around Shiva ’ s neck.