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<p>robot: Create/update articles in <a href="/wiki/Category:Hindu_gods" title="Category:Hindu gods">Category:Hindu gods</a>.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Epithet of Shiva}}<br /> [[File:Myths of the Hindus &amp; Buddhists - Shiva drinking the World-Poison.jpg|thumb|Shiva drinks the kalakuta, rendering his throat blue.]]<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Nilakanta&#039;&#039;&#039; ({{Lang-sa|नीलकण्ठ|lit=blue throat|translit=Nīlakaṇṭha}}) is one of the epithets of the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] deity [[Shiva]].&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite web |last=www.wisdomlib.org |date=2015-12-01 |title=Nilakantha, Nīlakaṇṭha, Nila-kantha, Nilakamtha: 28 definitions |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/nilakantha |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=www.wisdomlib.org |language=en}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Legend==<br /> {{See also|Samudra Manthana}}<br /> According to [[Hindu mythology]], [[Shiva]] gained this epithet when he consumed the [[Halahala|kalakuta]] (poison) that emerged from [[Samudra manthan|Samudra Manthana]], which rendered his throat blue.&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite web |last=www.wisdomlib.org |date=2017-01-29 |title=Halahala, Halāhala, Hālāhala, Halahalā, Hālahala: 22 definitions |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/halahala |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=www.wisdomlib.org |language=en}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[Rudra]]<br /> *[[Ishvara]]<br /> *[[Shiva|Maheshvara]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Hindu gods]]<br /> [[Category:Names of God in Hinduism]]<br /> [[Category:Shaivism]]<br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Nilakanta}}</div>

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