Maharishi Agastya -One of the Saptarishi

Maharishi Agastya- One of the Saptarishi

 Maharishi Agastya was a Vedic sage. He was the elder brother of Vashistha Muni. 

He was born on Shravanashukla Panchami in Kashi. Presently the place is famous as Agastikund. His wife Lopamudra was a princess of Vidarbha country.

He is considered one of the Saptarishis. At the request of the gods, he left Kashi and traveled to the south and later settled there. Maharishi Agastya was also a Vedic sage in the order of scientific sages. Certainly in the modern era, electricity was invented by Michael Faraday.

Bulb inventor Thomas Edison writes in one of his books that one night I slept while reading a Sanskrit sentence. That night I realized in my dream the meaning and mystery of the Sanskrit word that helped me to make bulbs.

Maharishi Agastya was the Rajguru of King Dasharatha. They are counted in the Saptarishis. Maharishi Agastya is called Mantradishta Rishi because he saw the power of those mantras in his penance.

Many mantras of the Rigveda are visualized by him. Maharishi Agastya had told the Suktas from 165 Sukta to 191 of the first Mandal of Rigveda. At the same time, his son Vedichayut and son of Vedichayut, Idmavah are also the seer of the 25th and 26th Sukta of Navam Mandal.

Maharishi Agastya is considered the son of the sage Pulastya. His brother's name was Vishrava, father of Ravana. Pulastya was the son of sage Brahma.

Maharishi Agastya married Lopamudra, the daughter of Vidarbha-king, who was a scholar and Vedanga. In South India, it is said to be the daughter of a Pandya king named Malayadhwaj. Its name there is Krishnekshana. He had a son named Idhamavahana.

Agastya is said to have once drunk the entire waters of the sea with his mantra power, tilted the Vindhyachal mountain, and destroyed the power of the evil demons called Ilval and Vatapi in the city of Manimati.

In the era of Agastya Rishi, the king was Shrutarva, Brihadastha, and Trsadasu. He, along with Agastya, begged Daityaraja Ilval and asked him for wealth and wealth for his kingdom.

Agastya in South India is the primitive validation of the Tamil language. These poets were born in the Shudra caste, hence they are famous as 'Shudra Vaikaran'. This sage is considered an incarnation of Agastya. This grammar named after the author is famous as 'Agastya Grammar'.

Tamil scholars say that this book is a valid, ancient, and independent work similar to Panini's Ashtadhyayi, which provides a complete introduction to the classical scholarly knowledge of the author.

They are worshiped in Java, Sumatra, etc. for their distinct contribution to the propagation of Indian culture.

Maharishi Agastya is the mantra-seer Muni mentioned in the Vedas. When he needed, he sometimes bore the sages and sometimes even drank the sea.

Ashram of Maharishi Agastya

Maharishi Agastya has many ashrams in India. Some of these main ashrams are in Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu. One is in Agastyamuninamak town of Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand.

Here Maharishi did penance and killed two Asuras named Aatapi-Vatapi. There is currently a temple in place of Muni's ashram. Muni ji is recognized as the presiding deity in many nearby villages. The temple mandarins are from a nearby village called Benji.

The second ashram is in Nagpur district of Maharashtra. Maharishi resided here during the Ramayana period.

Shri Ram's Guru Maharishi Vasistha and his ashram were nearby. By the order of Guru Vashistha, Shriram had pledged to kill the Asuras who persecuted the sages (Nishichar Hin Karhuh Mahin). Maharishi Agastya gave Shriram a quiver with never-ending arrows for this task.

Another ashram is in Tirupati, Tamil Nadu. According to mythological belief, the pride of Vindhyachal mountain, which was a disciple of Maharishi, had increased greatly and he increased his height greatly, due to which the light of the sun stopped reaching the earth and there was an outcry among the creatures. All the gods prayed to Maharishi to explain it to his disciple. Maharishi told Vindhyachal mountain that he has to go south to meditate, so give him the route.

Vindhyachal bowed at the feet of the Maharishi, the Maharishi told him that he should remain bent till he came back and went to the south after crossing the mountain. After that, he built his ashram there and meditated.

An ashram is on the banks of the river Pravara in Akole in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. Maharishi resided here during the Ramayana period. It is believed that in his presence all beings had forgotten enmity.

Contribution to Martial Arts: -

Maharishi Agastya is Acharya and Adi Guru, founder of Kerala's martial art Kalaripayattu, the southern style of Varmakkalai.

Vermakkalai is an unarmed martial art style. According to belief, Lord Shiva taught this art to his son Murugan (Karthikeya) and Murugan taught this art to Agastya. Maharishi Agastya taught this art to other Siddhars and also wrote books on it in Tamil. Maharishi Agastya is also the father of the Southern medicine system 'Siddha Vaidyam'.