"माझा नातू अगस्त्य - भाग ३"

"माझा नातू अगस्त्य - भाग ३"

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 त्याच्या नावाचा इतिहास सांगतो.ऐका.

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 (the 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.

7.Agastya is traditionally attributed to be the author of many Sanskrit texts such as the "Agastya Gita" found in Varaha Purana, "Agastya Samhita"  found embedded in Skanda Purana, and the "Dvaidha-Nirnaya Tantra text".

8.He is also referred to as Mana,  Kalasaja,Kumbhaja,Kumbhayoni and Maitravaruni after his mythical origins.