"अगस्त्य ऋषी - भाग ७"

"अगस्त्य ऋषी - भाग ७"

1.Agastya vedic verses(एषा यासीष्ट तन्वे वयां विद्यामेषं वृजनं जीरदानुम् ॥१५॥ - Rigveda) means "With thee, O Indra, are most bounteous riches

that further every one who lives uprightly.Now may these Maruts show us loving-kindness,Gods who of old were ever prompt to help us.

(1.169.5,Transl: Ralph T.H. Griffith)

2.May we know refreshment,and a community having lively waters.

(1.165.15, 1.166.15, 1.167.11, etc.

Transl: Stephanie Jamison, Joel Brereton)

3.His Vedic poetry is particularly notable for two themes.In one set of hymns, Agastya describes a conflict between two armies led by gods Indra and Maruts,which scholars such as G. S. Ghurye have interpreted as an allegory of a conflict between Arya (Indra) and Dasa(Rudra).

4.Agastya successfully reconciles their conflict,makes an offering wherein he prays for understanding and loving-kindness between the two. 5.Twenty one out of the twenty seven hymns he composed in Mandala 1 of the Rigveda have his signature ending, wherein he appeals, "may each community know refreshment (food) and lively waters".

6.These ideas have led him to be considered as a protector of both the Arya and the Dasa. 

7.However, some scholars interpret the same hymns to be an allegory for any two conflicting ideologies or lifestyles, because Agastya never uses the words Arya or Dasa, and only uses the phrase ubhau varnav (literally, "both colors".)

(माझ्या अभ्यासातील मध्य आशियातील श्वेतवर्णीय Scythians व भारतातील स्थानिक कृष्णवर्णिय Australoids)

8.The theme and idea of "mutual understanding" as a means for lasting reconciliation, along with Agastya's name, reappears in section 1.2.2 of the Aitareya Aranyaka of Hinduism.