Agastya in the Tamil Land

</br>Introduction. </br>Agastya’s birth. </br>Earlier Myths. </br>Reflections. </br>His Exodus to the South. </br>Appraisement of Tradition. </br>Antiquity of Tradition. </br>Agastya in the Tamil country. </br>Agastya Tradition-its post-classical origin. </br>Agastya Tradition-its post Jainistic origin. </br>Predisposing causes for the acceptance of the Agastya tradition. </br>Agastya Tradition in the Ramayana. </br>Agastya Tradition and Tolkappiyam. </br>Agastya’s work. </br>Agastya Sutras and Tolkappiyam. </br>Agastya Sutras-a later forgery. </br>Agastya Tradition in later Tamil Literature. </br>Agastya Tradition in Tamil Puranic Literature. </br>Apotheosis of Agastya. </br>Intrinsic improbabilities. </br>Agastya-a historical individual. </br>Agastya-A semi-historic personage. </br>Agastya – an allegorical character. </br>Conclusion.