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1 MW. PW. Viṣṇupurāṇa 4.14.14. H.H. Wilson (1972): 348. 2 See on this nakṣatra: J. Filliozat (1937): 77; A.A. Macdonell and A.B. Keith (1967): vide s.v. nakṣatra; J.E. Mitchiner (1982): 136, 154, 157, 271. 3 NCC I, 19–28. 4 Especially in certain Vedic texts, for example Atharvaveda 4.9.3 (see A.A. Macdonell and A.B. Keith, 1967; J.E. Mitchiner, 1982: 14). 5 See R. Barkhuis (1995): I, 80–81; A. Bergaigne (1878): I, 51, 57, (1883): II, 393–396; W. Caland (1926): 54, 81, 144, 169, 184, 188, 192; S.A. Dange (1986): 4–8; A. Daniélou (1964): 322–323; Dowson; J.A. Dubois (1947): 248, 274–275, 426; G.S. Ghurye (1972): 90, 254; A.A. Macdonell and A.B. Keith (1967); M.A. Mehendale (1996): 285–286; V.V. Mirashi (1968); J.E. Mitchiner (1982); G. Mukhopadhyaya, HIM II, 246–247; H. Oldenberg (1885): 60–68, (1888): 221–222; F.E. Pargiter (1922); Poerbatjaraka (1926): 1–14; V. Raghavan (1961); V.G. Rahurkar (1964): 202–209; K.R. Rajagopalan (1958); Tārācand Śarmā (1981/82): 69–70 (Agasta); Thaneswar Sarmah (1991): 57, 140, 141, 314; K.A. Nilakanta Sastri (1936); L. von Schroeder (1908): 91–172; D. Shulman (1980); E. Sieg (1969): 105–129; S. Sörensen (1963); M. and J. Stutley (1977); Sūramcandra I, 72–77; P. Thieme (1963); Vettam Mani 4–10; B. Ziegenbalg (1867): 220, 231–232. See on Agastya in the Rāmāyaṇa: J. Gonda (1935): 344–345; K.A. Nilakanta Sastri (1936): 478–485. J. Gonda calls Rāmāyaṇa, Uttarakāṇḍa 1–36, although characterized as Rāvaṇeṣis by H. Jacobi (1893), an Agastyaparvan. 6 Atharvaveda 2.32.3 (a charm against worms in cattle), 4.37.1 (Agastya employed the plant ajaśṛṅgī to destroy evil beings) and 5.23.10 (a charm against worms in children). 7 See, in particular, Vanaparvan 96–98 (Agastyopākhyāna), 103–105, 107–109 (ed. Poona). 8 Mahābhārata, Ādiparvan 192.9; Śāntiparvan 208.29–30 (ed. Poona). 9 Mahābhārata, Ādiparvan 139.9 (ed. Poona). 10 Mahābhārata, Ādiparvan, Sambhavaparvan 118.12–15 (ed. Poona); see also Anuśāsanaparvan 115.59 and 116.16–17 (ed. Poona). Compare Manusmṛti 5.22. See A. Holtzmann (1880): 594–595; J.J. Meyer (1952): 234; F. Wilhelm (1991): 11. 11 Matsyapurāṇa II.84. J.E. Mitchiner (1982): 95. See on Agastya in the Matsyapurāṇa: K.A. Nilakanta Sastri (1936): 487–489. 12 Brahmavaivartapurāṇa, Brahmakhaṇḍa 16.9–22. Gaṇanātha Sena (1924): I, 14–15. Satyaprakāś 92-94. Vṛddhatrayī 6–7. 13 Strictly, Agastya means a descendant of Agastya. 14 Hemarājaśarman 12. Vṛddhatrayī 8–10. The Hemādri who wrote the Lakṣaṇaprakāśa was the son of Īśvarasūri; he is said to belong to the fifteenth century (L. Gopal, 1988: 116). 15 Jaggi IV, 21. H. Parāḍkar 18. S.K. Mishra (1992: 313) credits Agastya with a treatise on kāyacikitsā. 16 Ad Ca.Sū.1.62–63ab.