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17 M. Venkata Reddy and B. Rama Rao (1980): 69–75. M. Venkata Reddy (1986): 23–24. 18 P. Cordier (1930a): 619. A. Csoma de Kőrös (1980): I, 22. I.P. Minaev (1992): 51 (176.10). 19 See S.C. Chitty (1982): 1–4; J. Filliozat (1967/68); J. Gonda (1935): 353; C.D. MacLean (1982): 9–10; K.A. Nilakanta Sastri (1936): 489–499, (1971): 70–77; D.D. Shulman (1980): 6–8; K.N. Sivaraja Pillai (n.d.). 20 See on Agastya in Southeast Asia: G. Coedès (1968); J. Filliozat (1967/68); O.C. Gangoly (1927); J. Gonda (1933), (1935), (1936); N.J. Krom (1926); Poerbatjaraka (1926); K.A. Nilakanta Sastri (1936): 500–521; K.N. Sivaraja Pillai (n.d.): 6. Compare J.E. Mitchiner (1982): 128–129. 21 See the references in J.E. Mitchiner (1982): 95, 278. 22 See K.N. Sivaraja Pillai (n.d.). 23 K.V. Zvelebil (1973a): 71–72: the language of these works is too modern to be older than the fifteenth century. 24 J.E. Mitchiner (1982): 128: he taught the Tamil grammar to Nakkīran (the same as Nakkīrar) in Madurai (ref. to Tiruvilaiyāṭarpurāṇam *54.7–22). K.A. Nilakanta Sastri (1971): 76–77: Agastya is the reputed author of the grammar called Akattiyam, which became the model of the Tolkāppiyam, the oldest extant grammatical work; see on Agastya's grammar, partially known from quotations in later commentaries: K.N. Sivaraja Pillai (n.d.): 37–38, 40–43, 45–47. K. Zvelebil (1973): 136–137, (1973a): 71–72: early Tamil works do not refer to Agastya; it is only the rather late epic Maṇimēkalai which knows about the miraculous birth of the sage and his relation to Vasiṣṭha; the earliest reference to Agastya as the first Tamil grammarian occurs in Nakkīrar's commentary to Iraiyaṉār's Akapporuḷ (eighth century); however, some grammatical aphorisms of Agastya, found in mediaeval commentaries, seem to be genuine and old; on the other hand, a grammatical treatise attributed to him and called Pērakattiyatiraṭṭu, appears to be a late forgery. K.N. Sivaraja Pillai (n.d.: 15–21) also expounds that Agastya is absent from the classical Tamil literature. 25 See J.E. Mitchiner (1982): 183. 26 See, e.g.: W. Ainslie (1826): I, 116–117, II, Preliminary observations XXVIII–XXX, 499–504, 522–523; E. Balfour (1967): II, 910; J. Filliozat in L. Renou et J. Filliozat (1953): 162–163; N. Kandaswamy Pillai (1979): 254–271 and 378–384; V.R. Madhavan (Ed.) (1984); R. Manickavasagam (1983); K. Palanichamy (1973); R. Śarmā and S. Śarmā (1991): 10–20; P.V. Sharma (1992c): 445 and 449; K. Zvelebil (1973): 222–223. The Rasayogasāgara (II, 602–623) contains the Sanskrit versions of a number of formulae attributed to Agastya in Tamil medical works. 27 See Pālakāpya's Hastyāyurveda I.1: Agastya is one of the sages who assembled at Romapāda's court in order to be instructed in the science of hastyāyurveda. 28 Agastya is a Rasasiddha in the Rasataraṅgiṇī. 29 Agastya is the reputed author of works called Citrāgastya, Sakalādhikāra and Vāstuśāstra (see J.N. Banerjea, 1956: 17; CESS A 5, 3). 30 Sūramcandra I, 76–77. 31 Pingree, CESS A 1, 35; 2, 11; 5, 3. 32 See J. Gonda (1935): 348–352. 33 NCC I, 19. Kavīndrācāryasūcipatram Nr. 932 (Agastisaṃhitā). See Rasaśāstra texts. A medical saṃhitā of Agasti is mentioned in the Bṛhannighaṇṭuratnākara. Vāgasena's Cikitsāsārasaṃgraha is said to be a version of an earlier Agastisaṃhitā (see Vaṅgasena). 34 NCC I, 20.