South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c6.23

c6.23

The fact that there are no references in Agastya's work to Jain or Buddhist images or to the canonized Saivaite saints, *e.g.*, Sundarar, Appar, Manikkavacagar and others who lived in times later than the 2nd century A.D., seems to suggest that his work must have been composed in the pre-Buddhist periods probably before the 4th century B.C.