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AC ASTY A CULT AND ICONOCRAPIIY

Notes and References :

1.    K. A. Ni lak anta Sastri, ‘Agastya’ Tijdscrift Voor Ind- TaaJ-Land en Volkenkunde (TBG), Vol. LXXVI 1936 - same Author - ‘Agastya or the Rise and Spread of llindu Culture’, Journal of the Benares llindu University_f Vol. I. No. 1; O.C. Gangoly, “The Cult of Agastya And the Origin of Indian Colonial Art“ Quarter!y Journal of the Mythic Society (QJMS), Vol. XVII No. 3; K. N. Sivaraj Pillai, Agastya in the Tamil Land.

2.    K. A. N. Sastri, Ibid., p. 545.

3.    The names of the ffis are given differently in dilTerent works; for example, the Arhśumadbhćdigama menlions the fsis as Narada, Jamadagni, Vasistha, Bhrgu, Bharadvija, Saunaka and Agastya: The Kimikigama mentions the names of Kauśika, Ka&yapa, Bharadvaja. Atri and Gautama and omits the names of two other though it gives the number of fsis as seven. The Kiranigama give$ the names of Agastya, Pulastya, Viśvamitra and Artgiras only. The Suprabhedigama mentions Bhrgu, Vasi$tha, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Ka&yapa, Kauśika and Ańgiras. The Purvakiranigama contains the names of Agastya, Pulastya, Viśvamitra, ParA&ara, Jamadagni, Valmlki and Sanat Kumara. Extracted from T. A. Gopinalh Rao, Elemcnts of llindu Iconography, Vol. D, pt. I, Madras, pp. 276-277 (1916). Also H. Krishna Sastri, South Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses, (1916), p. 90.

4.    Cf. T. A. Gopinalh Rao, Ibid., pp. 421-423.

5.    Cilcd by Dr. V. Raghavan, New Catalogus Catalogorum 1949, pp. 16-23.

6.    TayloPs Oriental MSS., Vol. U 1860 - XXVin No.220.

7.    Ibid. p. 51.

8.    Rcfer to author*s article “A Study on the Origin of Agastya,** JASD, Vol. 64-66, pp. 179-190.

9.    Ibid. p. 488.

10.    Vai$navakhanda, Ch. 33, Verses 60-67.

11.    Rcfer T. A. Gopinalh Rao, Ibid. pp. 276-277.

Bcsides the important sourccs for a study of iconography are : Brhat Sarn hit 2 of Varahamihira, Ch. 57, Vi$nudharmottara Purina (Ch. 58, 42 & 35), Canto BI, Śukranfti, Ch. IV, Scct. IV, Matsya Purina, Ch. 258, Agni Purina, Ch. 49, Pratimilaksanam, Mayaśistram. SUparatnam. Manasira, and RupavaJia.

12.    Edited with critical notes by P. K. Acharya (1933), Ch. 57, pp. 367-369.

13.    In the seven tila measurement, the whole length of the image is seven times the hcight of the face which is generally twelve ańgulas in the Indian system. This length is divided into 12 x 7 = 84 equal parts of which the proportional distribution among the dilTerent limits is explained in the treatise.

According to Śukranfti (Ch. IV, Scct. IV, linę 169), an ariguJa is one-fourth of a mufti. It is also mentioned in the Minasira (Ch. XXX, Verses 78-83) that images of Agastya, among others, should be carved in all edifices. Mention is also madę about casting of images of Agastya in wax. - Ch. LXVIII, verse 68, see P. K. Achary a, Indian Architccture according to Minasira-Śilpaśistra.