अगस्ति

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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अगस्तिः, पुं, (विन्ध्याख्यम् अगम् अस्यति इति अगस्तिः । अस्यतेः क्तिच् । बाहुलकात् तिर्वा ।) वकवृक्षः । अगस्त्यमुनिः । इति मेदिनी ॥ यथा वैद्यके, -- “अगस्तिः पित्तकफजित् चतुर्थकहरो हिमः । रूक्षो वातकरस्तिक्तः प्रतिश्यायनिवारणः” ॥

वाचस्पत्यम्

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अगस्ति¦ पु॰ अगं विन्ध्याचलम् अस्यति अस्--क्तिच् शक-न्ध्वादि॰। अगस्त्यनामके मुनौ। अगस्त्यस्यापत्यानि बहुषुयञोलुक्। तद्गोत्रापत्येषु ब॰ व॰। तत्सम्बन्धित्वात् दक्षिण्यांदिशि। अगस्त्यजन्मकथा च।
“तयोरादित्ययोः सत्रेदृष्ट्वाप्सरसमुर्व्वशीम् रेतश्चस्कन्द तत् कुम्भे न्यपतद्वाशतीवरेतेनैव तु मूहूर्त्तेन वीर्य्यवन्तौ तपस्विनौ, अगस्त्यश्च वशिष्ठश्चतावृषी संबभूवतुः। बहुधा पतितं रेतः कलसे च जलेस्थले। स्थले वशिष्ठस्तु मुनिः संभूवर्षिसत्तमः। कुम्भे-त्वगस्त्यः सम्भूतः जले मत्स्यो महाद्युतिः। उदियायततोऽगस्त्यः क्षणमात्रे महातपाः इति” पुराणम्। तस्यच विन्ध्याचलस्तम्भनकथा काशीखण्डेऽनुसन्धेया। वृहत्-सहिंतायामस्य गगनमण्डले दक्षिणस्यां तारारूपेण स्थिति-रुक्ता तच्च अगस्त्यचारशब्दे द्रष्टव्यम्।

शब्दसागरः

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अगस्ति¦ m. (-स्तिः) 1 The name of a saint, celebrated in Hindu mytho- logy, more usually entitled AGASTYA, the son of both MITRA and VARUNA, by URVASI; he is represented of short stature, and is said by some to have been born in a water jar: he is famed for having swallowed the ocean, when it had given him offence; at his command also, the VINDHYA range of mountains prostrated itself, and so remains; hence his present appellation: he is also considered as the regent of the star Canopus.
2. The name of a tree, (Sesbana grandiflora.) E. अग a mountain, and स्ति, with an adventitious meaning, to fix, or in the second instance, to be fixed; also अग as before, and स्ति Unadi aff.

Apte

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अगस्ति [agasti], [विन्ध्याख्यं अगं अस्यति; अस्-क्तिच् शकन्ध्वादि˚, Uṇ.4. 179, or अगं विन्ध्याचलं स्त्यायति �+स्तभ्नाति, स्त्यै-क; or अगः कुम्भः तत्र स्त्यानः संहतः इत्यगस्त्यः]

'Pitcher-born,' N. of a celebrated Ṛiṣi or sage.

N. of the star Canopus, of which Agastya is the regent.

N. of a plant (बकवृक्ष) Sesbana (or Ӕschynomene) Grandiflora [Mar. रुईमंदार]. [The sage Agastya is a very reputed personage in Hindu mythology. In the Ṛigveda he and Vasiṣṭha are said to be the off-springs of Mitra and Varuṇa, whose seed fell from them at the sight of the lovely nymph Urvaśī at a sacrificial session. Part of the seed fell into a jar and part into water; from the former arose Agastya, who is, therefore, called Kumbhayoni, Kumbhajanman, Ghaṭodbhava, Kalaśayoni &c.; from the latter Vasiṣṭha. From his parentage Agastya is also called Maitrāvaruṇi, Aurvaśeya, and, as he was very small when he was born, he is also called Mānya. He is represented to have humbled the Vindhya mountains by making them prostrate themselves before him when they tried to rise higher and higher till they wellnigh occupied the sun's disc and obstructed his path. See Vindhya. (This fable is supposed by some, to typify the progress of the Āryas towards the south in their conquest and civilization of India, the humbling of the mountain standing metaphorically for the removal of physical obstacles in their way). He is also known by the names of Pītābdhi, Samudra-chuluka &c.; from another fable according to which he drank up the ocean because it had offended him and because he wished to help Indra and the gods in their wars with a class of demons called Kāleyas who had hid themselves in the waters and oppressed the three worlds in various ways. His wife was Lopāmudrā. She was also called Kauṣītakī and Varapradā. She bore him two sons, Dṛḍhāsya and Dṛḍhāsyu. In the Rāmāyaṇa Agastya plays a distinguished part. He dwelt in a hermitage on mount Kunjara to the south of the Vindhya and was chief of the hermits of the south. He kept under control the evil spirits who infested the south and a legend relates how he once ate up a Rākṣasa named Vātāpi, who had assumed the form of a ram, and destroyed by a flash of his eye the Rākṣasa's brother who attempted to avenge him. In the course of his wandering Rāma with his wife and brother came to the hermitge of Agastya who received him with the greatest kindness and became his friend, adviser and protector. He gave Rāma the bow of Viṣṇu and accompanied him to Ayodhyā when he was restored to his kingdom after his exile of 14 years. The superhuman power which the sage possessed, is also represented by another legend, according to which he turned king Nahuṣa into a serpent and afterwards restored him to his proper form. In the south he is usually regarded as the first teacher of science and literature to the primitive Dravidian tribes, and his era is placed by Dr. Caldwell in the 7th or 6th century B.C. The Purāṇas represent Agastya as the son of Pulastya (the sage from whom the Rākṣsas sprang) and Havirbhuvā the daughter of Kardama. Several 'hymn-seers' are mentioned in his family, such as his two sons, Indrabāhu, Mayobhuva and Mahendra, also others who served to perpetuate the family. The sage is represented as a great philosopher, benevolent and kind-hearted, unsurpassed in the science of archery and to have taken a principal part in the colonization of the south; निर्जितासि मया भद्रे शत्रुहस्तादमर्षिणा । अगस्त्येन दुराधर्षा मुनिना दक्षिणेव �.दिक् ॥ Rām; अगस्त्याचरितामाशाम् R.4.44; cf. also; अगस्त्यो दक्षिणामाशामाश्रित्य नभसिः स्थितः । वरुणस्यात्मजो योगी विन्ध्यवातापिमर्दनः ॥ and R.6.61; Mv.7.14.] अगस्तितुल्या हि घृताब्धिशोषणे । Udbhaṭa.

Monier-Williams

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अगस्ति m. (according to Un2. iv , 179 fr. 2. अ-ग, a mountain , and अस्ति, thrower , 2. अस्). N. of a ऋषि(author of several Vedic hymns ; said to have been the son of both मित्रand वरुणby उर्वशी; to have been born in a water-jar ; to have been of short stature ; to have swallowed the ocean , and compelled the विन्ध्यmountains to prostrate themselves before him ; to have conquered and civilized the South ; to have written on medicine , etc. )

अगस्ति m. the star Canopus (of which अगस्त्यis the regent , said to be the " cleanser of water " , because of turbid waters becoming clean at its rising Ragh. xiii , 36 )

अगस्ति m. Agasti Grandiflora Sus3r. ([also 500823 -द्रुf. L. ])

अगस्ति m. pl. the descendants of अगस्त्य

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

Agasti.--This form of Agastya's name occurs once in the Atharvaveda, where he appears as a favourite of Mitra and Varuṇa.

Vedic Rituals Hindi

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अगस्ति पु.
एक वैदिक ऋषि का नाम, तै.सं. 7.5.5.2 (= अगस्त्य)।