"अगस्त्य ऋषी - भाग १४"

"अगस्त्य ऋषी - भाग १४"

1.Agastya Saṁhitā (literally: "Agastya's Compendium") is the title of several works in Sanskrit, attributed to Agastya.

2.One of those works is the Agastya Samhita,sometimes called the  Sankara Samhita,a section embedded in Skanda Purana. It was probably composed in late medieval era, but before the 12th-century.It exists in many versions, and is structured as a dialogue between Skanda and Agastya.

3.Scholars such as Moriz Winternitz state that the authenticity of the surviving version of this document is doubtful because Shaiva celebrities such as Skanda and Agastya teach Vaishnavism ideas and the bhakti (devotional worship) of Rama, mixed in with a tourist guide about Shiva temples in Varanasi and other parts of India.

4.Agastya is attributed to be the author of Agastimata, a pre-10th century treatise about gems and diamonds,with chapters on the origins, qualities,testing and making jewellery from them.Several other Sanskrit texts on gems and lapidary are also credited to Agastya in the Indian traditions.

5.Other mentions of Agastya include:

Bṛhaddevatā in section 5.134, The Lalita sahasranama of Shaktism  tradition of Hinduism,which describes the 1000 names of the goddess  Lalita is a part of the Brahmanda Purana.It is presented as a teaching from Hayagriya (an avatar of Viṣṇu) to Agastya.

6.Agastya is credited as the creator of the Āditya Hṛdayam (literally, "heart of the sun"), a hymn to Sūrya he told Rama to recite, so that he may win against Ravana.

7.Scholars such as John Muir questioned this hymn since the need for a such a hymn by Rama implies doubts about his divine nature.

8.Other references :-

Lakshmi Stotram and Saraswati Stotram,The Tamil text Pattuppattu  states Agastya to be master of icai (music, song),Kalidasa, in his Raghuvaṃśa (6.61) states that Agastya officiated the horse sacrifice of a Pandya king of Madurai,

One of the authors of Nadi Shastra / Nadi astrology.