Sunday, 29 December 2013

Agsthya and the Vindya, Cauvery river.



Once the Mountain  Vindya  started to grow high thinking that it could overtake mount Meru. Then Devendra was worried by its growth which would make some parts of the world dark and  found that only sage Agsthya could do something to stop the growth of Vindya so he requested Agasthya to help to stop the growth of Vindya.

Agasthya came from the north and had to cross the Vindya to come to the south of India. So he went to Vindya and said “Oh great Vindya please give me way to go to the south to do some job so please stop growing till I finish my job in the south and return. Please remain as you are now till I come back and then you can grow to any height you want.”

Vindya mountain had lot of respect for Saint Agasthya and readily agreed to his request and remained dormant.

Agasthya came down to south and remained in the south and did develop grammar for the Tamil languages from there and he remained in the ‘Pothigai' mountains.

Once sage Agasthya got annoyed with river Cauvery and took her in his ‘kamandala’ (jar) and the river was imprisoned for ever. Then Devendra came in the guise of a crow when Agsthya had gone for a bath and pushed the Kamandala and the river was released.

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