"माझा नातू अगस्त्य - भाग १०"

"माझा नातू अगस्त्य - भाग १०"

ब्रिटनमधे जन्माला आलेल्या माझ्या नातवाचे नाव ब्रिटनचे भारतीय मूळाचे पंतप्रधान "ऋषी सुनक" यांच्या प्रमाणेच भारतीय संस्कृतीशी बांधिलकी असणारे असावे या विचाराने शोधून शोधून "अगस्त्य" असे ठेवले.आज माझा नातू एक महिन्याचा झाला.त्या निमित्ताने "अगस्त्य" मुनी यांची महाभारतकालीन माहिती सांगतो.

1.The story of Agastya is mirrored in the second major Hindu epic  Mahabharata.

2.However, instead of Rama, the story is told as a conversation between Yudhishthira and Lomasa starting with section 96 of Book 3, the Vana Parva (the Book of Forest).

3.He is described in the epic as a sage with enormous powers of ingestion and digestion.

4.Agastya, once again, stops the Vindhya mountains from growing and lowers them and he kills the demons Vatapi and Ilvala much the same mythical way as in the Ramayana. 5.The Vana Parva also describes the story of Lopamudra and Agastya getting engaged and married.

6.It also contains the mythical story of a war between Indra and Vritra, where all the demons hide in the sea, gods requesting Agastya for help, who then goes and drinks up the ocean thereby revealing all the demons to the gods.