Neelakantha
नीलकण्ठ nīlakaṇṭha'Blue-throated'; Shiva, who drank the halahala poison at the churning of the ocean and held it in his throat, which turned blue.
Where this term appears
- Who is Shiva? Deities
He held it in his throat, which turned blue, and so he is Nīlakaṇṭha , the blue-throated one.
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
…creation, and the poison turned his throat blue, so that he is called Neelakantha , the blue-throated one, the god who took death into his own body and stopped it there.