According to Hindu mythology, Virabhadra or Veerabhadra was a super being created by the wrath of Rudra ( Shiva ), when he stepped in to destroy the Yagna ( fire sacrifice ) of Daksha, after his daughter Dakshayani ( Sati )-consort of Shiva, self-immolated in yagna fire.

In the Puranic versions, Virabhadra, created by Shiva from a lock of his matted hair knocked down Pushan's teeth.

So, he created Virabhadra and Bhadrakali, some call as, two ferocious creatures who wreaked havoc and mayhem on the scene of the horrific incident.

Consort of Virabhadra was Bhadrakali, also known as the gentle Kali, is generally an auspicious form of the goddess Kali, and the legend states that she came into being by Devi ’ s wrath, when Daksha insulted Shiva.

The story of creation of Virabhadra from the Shiva's lock and destruction of Daksha by Virabhadra and his ganas is a popular myth.

Shiva directed Virabhadra: " Lead my army against Daksha and destroy his sacrifice ; fear not the Brahmanas, for thou art a portion of my very self ".

On this direction of Shiva, Virabhadra appeared with Shiva's ganas in the midst of Daksha's assembly like a storm and broke the sacrificial vessels, polluted the offerings, insulted the priests and finally cut off Daksha's head, trampled on Indra, broke the staff of Yama, scattered the gods on every side ; then he returned to Kailash.

The engraved panel in considered to be a unique sculpture in the north end of the aisle, and shows Bhairava, or Virabhadra, a frightful form of Shiva.

At the doorway of the shukanasa are idols of Shiva ’ s guards Nandi and Virabhadra.

Lepakshi consists of three shrines dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and ' Virabhadra ').

There are three shrines dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Virabhadra.

There are three temples dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Virabhadra.

Initially, Shiva brings forth Virabhadra, one of his terrifying forms, in order to calm Narasimha.

His second work was Virabhadra Vijayamu which describes the adventures of Virabhadhra, son of Shiva.

From the two pieces rose the ferocious Virabhadra and the terrible Rudrakali, while Bhadrakali arose from the wrath of Devi herself.

At the doorway of the inner hall are idols of door-keepers, Nandi and Virabhadra.

The Gajapati army was then met at Kondaviduraju where the armies of Vijayanagara, after establishing a siege for a few months and heavy with initial defeats began to retreat, until Timmarusu upon discovering a secret entrance to the unguarded eastern gate of the fort launched a night attack culminating with the capture of the fort and the imprisonment of the greatest swordsman of his time, Prince Virabhadra, the son of Gajapati Emperor of Kalinga-Utkal, Gajapati Prataprudra Deva.

The principal building in the place is the double temple of Rameshwara and Virabhadra, a large and plain structure built in the Hoysala-Dravida style.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

But a powerful sense of community, even with little or no machinery, means a great deal.

Thus, theory and doctrine applicable among the great nations and the smaller European states did not really comfortably fit less developed and less powerful societies elsewhere.

Absalon was born into the powerful Hvide clan, and owned great land possessions.

:"" There are there ," he said, " many great and powerful gods, and in former time a church was built there, and there are many Christians there who worship Christ --"" ( Chapter XIX )

The tale Culhwch and Olwen, associated with the Mabinogion and perhaps written in the 11th century, draws a dramatic picture of Arthur's hall and his many powerful warriors who go from there on great adventures, placing it in Celliwig, an uncertain locale in Cornwall.

Richard Nixon, then President, spoke of Eisenhower, Some men are considered great because they lead great armies or they lead powerful nations.

During the pre-Inca period, people lived in clans, which formed great tribes, some allied with each other to form powerful confederations, as the Confederation of Quito.

Regions most at risk for great loss of life include those where earthquakes are relatively rare but powerful, and poor regions with lax, unenforced, or nonexistent seismic building codes.

Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.

Washington had a vision of a great and powerful nation that would be built on republican lines using federal power.

His son James II ( reigned 1437 – 1460 ), when he came of age in 1449, continued his father's policy of weakening the great noble families, most notably taking on the powerful Black Douglas family that had come to prominence at the time of the Bruce.

The three Archbishops oversaw the most venerable and powerful sees in Germany, while the other four were supposed to represent the dukes of the four nations ( the Franks, Swabians, Saxons and Bavarians ); they also hold great offices in the imperial household.

Thus, powerful but refined breeds such as the Andalusian or the Lusitano developed in the Iberian peninsula as riding horses that also had a great aptitude for dressage, while heavy draft horses such as the Clydesdale and the Shire developed out of a need to perform demanding farm work and pull heavy wagons.

Howlin ' Wolf's early recordings demonstrate great skill, particularly at blowing powerful riffs with the instrument.

His talents of every kind powerful from Nature, and not meanly cultivated by Letters, his social Virtues in all the relations, and all the habitudes of Life renderd him the center of a very great and unparalleled Variety of agreeable Societies, which will be dissipated by his Death.

Founded in the 1120s around a powerful Norman great tower, the castle was significantly enlarged by King John at the beginning of the 13th century.

This German version is said to be " over 60, 000 times as powerful as Britain's great pre-war joke ", a reference to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his speech concerning the Munich Agreement.

But as printer mechanisms fell in price, the cost of implementing PS became too great a fraction of overall printer cost ; in addition, with desktop computers becoming more powerful, it no longer made sense to offload the rasterisation work onto the resource-constrained printer.

The great feature of Urban V's reign was the effort to return the papacy to Rome and to suppress its powerful rivals for the temporal sovereignty there.

This is a demonstration of Agricola's real legacy: his importance should not be measured so much by what he wrote, but rather by his personal influence over others, and his powerful stimulus-he was truly a great teacher and model humanist.

Richard once praised Saladin as a great prince, saying that he was without doubt the greatest and most powerful leader in the Islamic world.

In addition to their great passing attack the Raiders also had a powerful running game, led by fullback Mark van Eeghen ( 1, 012 rushing yards, 17 receptions ) and halfback Clarence Davis ( 516 rushing yards, 27 receptions ).

They were, in fact, a survival of an ancient and venerable German institution ; and if, during a certain period, they exercised something like a reign of terror over a great part of Germany, the cause of this lay in the sickness of the times, which called for some powerful organization to combat the growing feudal anarchy.