agásti m. (according to Uṇ. iv, 179 fr. 2. a-ga, a mountain, and asti, thrower, √2. as). N. of a Ṛishi (author of several Vedic hymns

• said to have been the son of both Mitra and Varuṇa by Urvaśī

• to have been born in a water-jar

• to have been of short stature

• to have swallowed the ocean, and compelled the Vindhya mountains to prostrate themselves before him

• to have conquered and civilized the South

• to have written on medicine, &c.)

• the star Canopus (of which Agastya is the regent, said to be the 'cleanser of water', because of turbid waters becoming clean at its rising Ragh. xiii, 36)

• Agasti Grandiflora Suśr. [also -dru f. L.]

• (ayas), m. pl. the descendants of Agastya

• (ī), f. a female descendant of Agastya Pāṇ. 6-4, 149 Sch