A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c9.17

c9.17

This narrative is not found in any early manuscript of the *Rāmāyaṇa* and is not annotated by any of the commentators. It is obviously a late and clumsy invention. Its account of Agastya's reclamation of desert land and its reference to Bhārgava's curse nevertheless seem to bring it into some relation with the following legend of Paraśurāma's creation of the Kerala country, which is also of relatively recent origin and finds no place in the genuine Purāṇas.