The word Nilakantha may refer to:
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Shiva
Shiva (; sa, शिव, lit=The Auspicious One, Śiva ), also known as Mahadeva (; ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐ, or Hara, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hindu ...
, one of the principal deities of Hinduism
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''Nilakantha'' (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
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Neelakantha Chaturdhara
Neelakantha Chaturdhara ( sa, नीलकण्ठ चतुर्धर, IAST: ''Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara'') (also referred as Neelakantha Chaturdhar) was a scholar who lived in Varanasi in the later half of the 17th century, famous for his ...
(Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara), seventeenth-century commentator on the ''Mahābhārata''
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Nīlakantha dhāranī, a Mahayana Buddhist mantra
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Nilakantha Somayaji
Keļallur Nilakantha Somayaji (14 June 1444 – 1544), also referred to as Keļallur Comatiri, was a major mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. One of his most influential works was the comprehensi ...
, mathematician of the Kerala school
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Nilakantha Daivajna, 16th century astronomer-astrologer
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