Kālañjara

Kālañjara

Kālañjara is a name used for more than one place and name of Śiva in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.

Places

• Kālañjara: the sacred kshetra in the Vindhya where Parameśvara slew Kāla to protect the rājarshi Śveta, and where Bhagavān Vāmana abides as Nīlakaṇṭha. Kūrma Purāṇa; Vāmana Purāṇa; Agni Purāṇa; Bhāgavata Purāṇa; Bhavishya Purāṇa; Brahma Purāṇa
• Kālañjara (Kesara Mountain): one of the kesara mountains on the northern side of Meru, in the account of the shape of the world; not the Kālañjara of Bhārata-varsha. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 18

Named in passing

• Kālañjara, a name of Bhagavān Śiva: Śiva at Yayātatīrtha, where he destroyed Yayāti‘s old age, and at the southern Gaṅgā on the Gautamī, where his darśana releases one from all bondage, told on Śiva. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapters 76–77