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.
- 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.