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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).

== 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>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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