Editing Agastya (section)

===Buddhist texts===
Several Buddhist texts mention Agastya. Just like early Buddhist texts such as ''Kalapa'', ''Katantra'' and ''Candra-vyakarana'' adapting Panini, and Asvaghosa adopting the more ancient Sanskrit poetic methodology as he praises the [[Buddha]], Agastya appears in 1st millennium CE Buddhist texts. In Tamil texts, for example, Akattiyan is described as the sage who learnt Tamil and Sanskrit grammar and poetics from Avalokitan (another name for Buddha-to-be [[Avalokiteśvara]]).{{sfn|Monius|2001|pp=133–135}}<ref>{{cite book|author=John Clifford Holt|title=Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=aT3AMR8g1gEC&pg=PA68| year=1991|publisher= Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-536246-6|pages=68–69}}</ref>

[[File:Agastya.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|The left Indonesian statue shows Agastya with Shiva's trident, as a divine sage of [[Shaivism]]. Agastya iconography is common in southeast Asian temples.<ref name="Klokke2003p21">{{cite book|author1=Ann R. Kinney|author2=Marijke J. Klokke|author3=Lydia Kieven|title=Worshiping Siva and Buddha: The Temple Art of East Java |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sfa2FiIERLYC&pg=PA21 |year=2003|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2779-3|pages=21–25}}</ref><ref name="Glover2008p109">{{cite book|author1=Peter Sharrock|author2=Ian C. Glover|author3=Elizabeth A. Bacus| title=Interpreting Southeast Asia's Past: Monument, Image and Text| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HiSUl9aN88MC&pg=PA109 |year=2008| publisher=National University of Singapore Press|isbn=978-9971-69-405-0|pages=109–110}}</ref>]]
According to [[Anne E. Monius]], the ''Manimekalai'' and ''Viracoliyam'' are two of many South Indian texts that co-opt Agastya and make him a student of the Buddha-to-be.{{sfn|Monius|2001|pp=133–135}}

Agastya elsewhere appears in other historic Buddhist mythologies, such as the Jataka tales. For example, the Buddhist text ''Jataka-mala'' by Aryasura, about the Buddha's previous lives, includes Agastya as the seventh chapter.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Āryaśūra|translator=Peter Khoroche|title=Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Arya Sura's "Jatakamala"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5TxenuXB6NEC|year=2006|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-78215-7|pages=39–46}}</ref> The ''Agastya-Jataka'' story is carved as a relief in the [[Borobudur]], the world's largest early medieval era [[Mahayana]] Buddhist temple.<ref>{{cite book|author= Helena A. van Bemmel|title=Dvarapalas in Indonesia: Temple Guardians and Acculturation|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=kNlt08SXW48C |year=1994| publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-90-5410-155-0|page=35}}</ref>