Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.1967

c9.1967

(iv) Birth of Vīrabhadra. (See under Dakṣa).
(v) Water in Kālindī got dark in colour. (See under Pārvatī, Para 2).
(vi) Śiva became Nāgabhūṣaṇa. (See under Nāgāstram).
(vii) Blessed Sukeśa. Vidyutkeśa, the Rākṣasa married Sālakaṭaṅkā, daughter of Sandhyā. While they toured the world round enjoying their honeymoon Sālakaṭaṅkā conceived and delivered in due course a son in the valley of Mount Mandara. Śiva and Pārvatī, who passed that way in an aerial chariot saw the child and came down to it. By the blessing of Śiva the child grew up to a youth very quickly. Śiva named him Sukeśa and after blessing that he would grow up to become a pious soul disappeared from the scene. (Uttara Rāmāyaṇa). (viii) Śiva, the father of Indrajit. (See under Indrajit, Para 2).
(ix) Four faces of Śiva. (See under Tilottamā, Para 2).
(x) Sword of Śiva. Śiva holds a sword in his hand to destroy the asura tribe. The following is told in Chapter 166 of Śānti Parva about the origin of the sword.