Agastya (अगस्त्यः)

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How he stamped the vindhya mountain down. Once the talebearer nārada happened to come to the vindhya mountain, who gladly welcomed nārada, gave him a seat, showed hospitality and asked for news. nārada said “May you be blessed. Just now I am coming from the mahāmeru. indra, agni (fire) and other gods live there. kailāsa, niṣadha, nīla, gandhamādana 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 gods came to vindhya in groups and tried to pacify him. But their attempts were futile. So they approached agastya and made their petition to him. He agreed to pacify vindhya somehow or other. agastya and his wife came to vindhya from Kāśinagara. When vindhya saw agastya he began to shiver with fear. Contracting all his high peaks, he bowed before agastya, who said to vindhya thus “Vindhya, I am going to South bhārata. Let your heads be low till I come back”. vindhya agreed. agastya passed on to the South and built a hermitage in the Malayācala and lived there. Since then agastya had never gone to the North and vindhya had never risen up. As he had made the mountain (Aga) bow its head he got the name agastya. (Tenth skandha of devībhāgavata).

अगस्त्यकर्तृकं विन्ध्यगिरिवृद्धिनिवारणं देवैः सह सागरतटगमनं च (3.104)

पञ्चाधिकशततमोऽध्यायः

तीर्थयात्रापर्व

अगस्त्येन समुद्रसलिले पीते सति देवैर्दैत्यसंहारः पुनः समुद्रपूरणविषये देवानां ब्रह्माणं प्रति प्रश्नः

षडधिकशततमोऽध्यायः

तीर्थयात्रापर्व

राज्ञः सागरस्य सन्तानार्थं तपः शिवकर्तृकं वरप्रदानं च