Agastya In The Tamil Land

While preparing the script of Agastya in the Tamil Land, the author delved deep to highlight the facts in a chronological order. Accordingly, no tradition is so widespread throughout the length and breadth of the Tamil country as that concerning great sage Agastya and his numerous exploits. Of all the mythic, semihistoric and historic personages on the Aryan annals, who have figured in South Indian History, Agastya has occupied the foremost place and secured the largest homage of the cultured and the masses alike? He meets us from the start of Aryan history, being a composure of certain hymns of the earliest of the Vedas, the Rig Veda. Still he seems to have been not included amongst the seven holy sages, the Prajapatis, or the progenitors of the human race. This circumstance may lend some colour of support to the doubt whether Agastya is not after all the sage of a later day. The book contains 24 chapters and immensely good for common readers.