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260 It would appear from this that all the objects were obtained, but finally a deadly poison was produced. This threatened to destroy the universe; whereupon the god Siva swallowed it up to avert that calamity, but the poison remained lodged in his throat, causing it to become of a dark-blue colour. Hence it is that Siva has received the epithet of the "blue-throated god."