An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.126.5

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They then went to the hermitage of Agastya, and mentioned to him that he had delivered the gods from Nahusha and caused Vindhya to cease to increase in height (in competition with the Sun), the world having been covered with darkness (III, 103).—§ 385: Vindhya (q.v.).—§ 386: At the request of the gods Agastya, accompanied by rshis, gods, men, Uragas (snakes), Gandharvas, Yakshas, and Kimpurushas, approached the ocean (III, 104) and drank it up, to the amazement of the gods, who called him Vidhātr and the creator of the worlds, while the musical instruments of Gandharvas were playing, and celestial blossoms were showered upon him. The Kāleyas, who had previously been burnt by the tapas of the munis, were now destroyed by the gods, except some few who, rending asunder the goddess Earth, sought refuge in Pātāla. The gods now asked Agastya to fill up the ocean again, but he had already digested the water. The gods with Vishnu came to Brahmán and spoke to him about replenishing the sea (III, 105). Brahmán dismissed them, saying that only after a long course of time the ocean would be brought to resume its wonted state by the agnates of king Bhagīratha.