Part 9

How Lord Shiva(Mahadev) Is Named As NeelKanth

   Once the Demons and Gods both came to an agreement that they will extract the 'Amruth' together and share it between them. They went together to meet 'Tridev' to help them. Tridev agreed to help them and they all went to the bank of the seashore. 'Mountain Mandara' was used in extraction of Amruth. Lord Shiva told Lord Vishnu that it was the time for his 'Kurma'(tortoise) form(second form out of 10 forms).

Moutain Mandara was kept on the Lord Kurma and the snake is twisted around the mountain and they were trying to retrieve the Treasures which got immersed in to the ocean due to Sage Durvasa's Curse. Gods choose the tail side and devil choose the head side, As they were pulling it to and fro the poison started releasing from the ocean which is dangerous to the universe. So, 

Lord Shiva collecting all the poison in his palm and swallowed it.

Goddess Paravati enraged from this act of her husband came to his rescue and squeezed Lord Shiva's neck, after this incident Lord Shiva neck turned into blue color,

from then Lord Shiva is known as Neelkant or Neelesh.