nilakantha
नीलकण्ठ nīlakaṇṭha'The blue-throated one,' an epithet of Shiva, whose throat turned blue from holding the halahala poison at the churning of the ocean; a localized blueness distinct from the whole-body dark complexion of Krishna and Vishnu.
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.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
…tes through the ritual compendia of Mitramishra, Kamalakarabhatta and Nilakantha in the first half of the seventeenth, three men who were near-contemporaries and, in the case of the last two, first cousins.
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra does not ask for endless life. It asks to be released from death the way a ripe cucumber falls from its stem, of itself, without being…
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
Nilakantha Somayaji's Tantrasangraha (1500) attributes them to him, and Jyeshthadeva's Yuktibhasha , written around 1530 in Malayalam, gives the derivations, the yukti , which is why it is sometimes called the …
- Why is Krishna blue? Journal
It helps to set one real blue beside all this. Shiva is called Nilakantha , the blue-throated.
- The Modern Frame Treatise
Among her sources is an unpublished ritual manual, the Saubhagyacandratapa of Nilakantha Diksita, an insider's account of the esoteric Srividya tradition by a man who practised it.
- The Shankaracharya Tradition In The Modern Period Treatise
And in 2011 Fisher watched Bharati Tirtha's public worship and saw two of three images that had belonged to Nilakantha Dikshita, the seventeenth-century Tamil poet and Srividya adept.