"Agastya" related terms, short phrases and links

Agastya: One of 18 celebrated Saiva siddhas (adepts), and reputed as the first grammarian of Tamil language.
Agastya was highly satisfied and told the wives to ask for any boon they wished.
Agastya: A sage and reputed seer of many hymns in the Rig Veda.
Agastya was a sage of great renown, who is immortalized as a star in the celestial heavens(one of the seven Rishi-s, saptarshhi or Ursa Major).
Agastya was also invited by the brothers and was fed the ram's meat, but, unlike the other Brahmins, he was strong enough to digest - it.

Soon after he granted this boon, Maharishi Agastya realized that Lord Shiva Himself was going to be born as the son of Anjana.
The Vedic Rishi Agastya is proposed by some to be an incarnation of Lord Shiva.
The three kings and Agastya went to a noble Asura king of Ilavala, who gave him all the riches he needed and more.
The need arose to subdue, by guile, the Vindhyas, and Agastya was chosen to do that.

Lopamudra (---------------------------): Daughter of the king of Vidarbha who married the sage Agastya.
In the meanwhile, Sage Agastya, at the command of Lord Siva, was proceeding South, with a Kamandalu of water from the Akasa Ganga.
When Bharata left, Rama went to visit sage Agastya.

Another hymn associated with Surya is the Aditya Hridayam, recited by the great sage Agastya to Rama on the warfield before the fight with Ravana.
It was recited as a result of conversation between Hayagriva, a minor avatara of Vishnu and the great sage Agastya.
Another legend well-known to this day in India, is regarding the daily circumnambulation of the sun around mount Meru, and involves the sage Agastya.

Subsequent to this, Agastya killed the two sons of Ajamukhi.
So Agastya and Vasishtha came from the same pot.
Rishi Agastya, brother of Sage Vasistha, is reputed to be the first colonizer of the South.
Only a few select sages, including Vasishta, Sharabhanga, Agastya and Vishwamitra know of his destiny.
It is in the Ramayana that - Agastya makes the most distinguished figure.

Agastya whom the Vindhya mountain respected asked it to stop growing until he crossed it on his way to the south and returned to the north again.
Then Agastya continued his journey and, crossing the Vindhyas in due time, entered South India.
Agastya settled permanently in the south, and the Vindhya range, true to its word, never grew further.
Agastya journeyed from north to south, and on the way encountered the now impassible Vindhya mountains.


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