"अगस्त्य ऋषी - भाग २"

"अगस्त्य ऋषी - भाग २"

1.Agastya is considered to be the father of Siddha medicine.

2.Agastya appears in numerous  itihasas  and Puranas including the major Ramayana and Mahabharata.

3.He is one of the seven most revered rishis(Saptarishi) in the Vedic texts,and is revered as one of the Tamil Siddhar in the Shaivism  tradition,who invented an early grammar of the Old Tamil language,Agattiyam,playing a pioneering role in the development of Tampraparniyan medicine and spirituality at Saiva centres in proto-era Sri Lanka and South India. 4.He is also revered in the Puranic  literature of Shaktism and  Vaishnavism.

5.He is one of the Indian sages found in ancient sculpture and reliefs in Hindu temples of South Asia, and Southeast Asia such as in the early medieval era Shaiva temples on Java Indonesia.

6.He is the principal figure and Guru in the ancient Javanese language text  Agastyaparva,whose 11th century version survives.