The word Nilakantha may refer to:
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Shiva, one of the principal deities of Hinduism
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''Nilakantha'' (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
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Neelakantha Chaturdhara (Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara), seventeenth-century commentator on the ''Mahābhārata''
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Nīlakantha dhāranī, a Mahayana Buddhist mantra
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Nilakantha Somayaji, mathematician of the Kerala school
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Nilakantha Daivajna
Nila-kantha (IAST: Nīlakaṇṭha) was a 16th-century astrologer and astronomer (''jyotishi'' or ''daivajña'') and Sanskrit writer from the Mughal Empire of present-day India. He was a royal astrologer to emperor Akbar, and contributed to ''Toda ...
, 16th century astronomer-astrologer
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