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===Agastya Samhita===
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''Agastya Saṁhitā'' (literally: "Agastya's Compendium") is the title of several works in Sanskrit, attributed to Agastya.

One of those works is the ''Agastya Samhita'', sometimes called the ''Sankara Samhita'', a section embedded in the ''[[Skanda Purana]]''.{{sfn|Dalal|2010|pp=7–8}} It was probably composed in late medieval era, but before the 12th-century.<ref name="banerji121">{{cite book|author=Sures Chandra Banerji|title=A Companion to Sanskrit Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkOAEdIsdUsC&pg=PA121|year=1989|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0063-2|page=121}}</ref> It exists in many versions, and is structured as a dialogue between [[Kartikeya|Skanda]] and Agastya. Scholars such as [[Moriz Winternitz]] state that the authenticity of the surviving version of this document is doubtful because Shaiva celebrities such as Skanda and Agastya teach [[Vaishnavism]] ideas and the bhakti (devotional worship) of [[Rama]], mixed in with a tourist guide about Shiva temples in [[Varanasi]] and other parts of India.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Moriz Winternitz|author2=V. Srinivasa Sarma|title=A History of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRfuJFRV_O8C |year=1996|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0264-3|pages=545–546}}</ref>{{sfn|Rocher|1986|pp=234–237, 228–229}}