अगस्ति [ agasti ] [ agásti ] m. ( according to Lit. Uṇ. iv , 179 fr. 2. [ a-ga ] , a mountain , and [ asti ] , thrower , √ 2. [ as ] ) . N. of a Ṛishi (author of several Vedic hymns ; said to have been the son of both Mitra and Varuṇa by Urvaśī ; to have been born in a water-jar ; to have been of short stature ; to have swallowed the ocean , and compelled the Vindhya mountains to prostrate themselves before him ; to have conquered and civilized the South ; to have written on medicine , )

the star Canopus (of which Agastya is the regent , said to be the " cleanser of water " , because of turbid waters becoming clean at its rising Lit. Ragh. xiii , 36)

Agasti Grandiflora Lit. Suśr. ( ( also [ -dru ] f. Lit. L. ) )

the descendants of Agastya