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== Agastya and the Vindhyas ==
 
== Agastya and the Vindhyas ==
Once the talebearer Narada happened to come to the Vindhya mountain, who gladly welcomed Narada, gave him a seat, showed hospitality and asked for news. Narada said “May you be blessed. Just now I am coming from the Mahameru. Indra, Agni (fire) and other deities live there. Kailasa, Nishadha, Nila, Gandhamadana etc. are mountains far nobler than this Meru. But they are not so haughty as him. That the Sun and the Moon and such others revolve round him, is the reason for his arrogance”. On hearing these tales, Vindhya thought that Meru should be taught a lesson. Once vindhya made his peaks grow higher and higher till they touched the sky. The Sun, the Moon and others found it very difficult to pass over the high peaks in their usual journeys to the West, and so they had to roam about in the sky. When the journeys of the Sun and the Moon were hindered, everything in the world fell into chaos. The deities approached sage Agastya and made their petition to him. And he agreed to pacify Vindhya somehow or the other. With this objective, sage Agastya and his wife came to Vindhya from Kashinagara. When Vindhya saw sage Agastya, he began to shiver with fear. Contracting all his high peaks, he bowed before the sage, who then said to the mountain thus “Vindhya, I am going to South Bharata. Let your heads be low till I come back” and Vindhya agreed. Sage Agastya then went on to the South, built a hermitage in the Malayachala and lived there. Since then, neither has Agastya ever gone to the North nor has the Vindhya ever risen up. In fact, as he had made the mountain (Aga) bow its head, the sage is said to have got the name Agastya. This story is enumerated in the Tenth skandha (Chapters 2-7) of the Devi Bhagavata.<ref name=":0">Vettam Mani (1975), [https://archive.org/details/puranicencyclopa00maniuoft/page/6 Puranic Encyclopaedia], Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.</ref>
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Once the talebearer Narada happened to come to the Vindhya mountain, who gladly welcomed Narada, gave him a seat, showed hospitality and asked for news. Narada said,
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ममागमनमिन्द्रारे जातं स्वर्णगिरेरथ ॥ १८ ॥
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तत्र दृष्टा मया लोकाः शक्राग्नियमपाशिनाम् ।
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सर्वेषां लोकपालानां भवनानि समन्ततः ॥ १९ ॥
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मया दृष्टानि विन्ध्याग नानाभोगप्रदानि च ।
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इति चोक्त्वा ब्रह्मयोनिः पुनरुच्छ्वासमाविशत् ॥ २० ॥
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उच्छ्वसन्तं मुनिं दृष्ट्वा पुनः पप्रच्छ शैलराट् ।
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उच्छ्वासकारणं किं तद्‌ ब्रूहि देवऋषे मम ॥ २१ ॥
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इत्याकर्ण्य नगस्योक्तं देवर्षिरमितद्युतिः ।
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अब्रवीच्छ्रूयतां वत्स ममोच्छ्वासस्य कारणम् ॥ २२ ॥
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गौरीगुरुस्तु हिमवाञ्छिवस्य श्वशुरः किल ।
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सम्बन्धित्वात्पशुपतेः पूज्य आसीत्क्षमाभृताम् ॥ २३ ॥
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एवमेव च कैलासः शिवस्यावसथः प्रभुः ।
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पूज्यः पृथ्वीभृतां जातो लोके पापौघदारणः ॥ २४ ॥
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निषधः पर्वतो नीलो गन्धमादन एव च ।
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पूज्याः स्वस्थानमासाद्य सर्व एव क्षमाभृतः ॥ २५ ॥
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यं पर्येति च विश्वात्मा सहस्रकिरणः स्वराट् ।
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सग्रहर्क्षगणोपेतः सोऽयं कनकपर्वतः ॥ २६ ॥
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आत्मानं मनुते श्रेष्ठं वरिष्ठं च धराभृताम् ।
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सर्वेषामहमेवाग्र्यो नास्ति लोकेषु मत्समः ॥ २७ ॥
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एवंमानाभिमानं तं स्मृत्वोच्छ्वासो मयोज्झितः ।
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अस्तु नैतावता कृत्यं तपोबलवतां नग ।
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प्रसङ्‌गतो मयोक्तं ते गमिष्यामि निजं गृहम् ॥ २८ ॥
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“May you be blessed. Just now I am coming from the Mahameru. Indra, Agni (fire) and other deities live there. Kailasa, Nishadha, Nila, Gandhamadana etc. are mountains far nobler than this Meru. But they are not so haughty as him. That the Sun and the Moon and such others revolve round him, is the reason for his arrogance”. On hearing these tales, Vindhya thought that Meru should be taught a lesson. Once vindhya made his peaks grow higher and higher till they touched the sky. The Sun, the Moon and others found it very difficult to pass over the high peaks in their usual journeys to the West, and so they had to roam about in the sky. When the journeys of the Sun and the Moon were hindered, everything in the world fell into chaos. The deities approached sage Agastya and made their petition to him. And he agreed to pacify Vindhya somehow or the other. With this objective, sage Agastya and his wife came to Vindhya from Kashinagara. When Vindhya saw sage Agastya, he began to shiver with fear. Contracting all his high peaks, he bowed before the sage, who then said to the mountain thus “Vindhya, I am going to South Bharata. Let your heads be low till I come back” and Vindhya agreed. Sage Agastya then went on to the South, built a hermitage in the Malayachala and lived there. Since then, neither has Agastya ever gone to the North nor has the Vindhya ever risen up. In fact, as he had made the mountain (Aga) bow its head, the sage is said to have got the name Agastya. This story is enumerated in the Tenth skandha (Chapters 2-7) of the Devi Bhagavata.<ref name=":0">Vettam Mani (1975), [https://archive.org/details/puranicencyclopa00maniuoft/page/6 Puranic Encyclopaedia], Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.</ref>
    
अगस्त्यकर्तृकं विन्ध्यगिरिवृद्धिनिवारणं देवैः सह सागरतटगमनं च (3.104)
 
अगस्त्यकर्तृकं विन्ध्यगिरिवृद्धिनिवारणं देवैः सह सागरतटगमनं च (3.104)

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