A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c21.10
A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c21.10
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Agastya is a great figure in the Tamil cultural tradition¹⁹ and in the Indianized states of Southeast Asia.²⁰ His importance in the South has a parallel in astronomy, where Agastya is the name of the star Canopus.²¹