Editing Agastya (section)

===Temples===
Temples for Agastya are found in Tamil Nadu. In [[Thirunelveli District]],

* A temple for Agastyar on top of [[Agastya Mala]]
* Agastheeswarar temple in [[Ambasamudram]] 
* Agastheeswarar temple in [[Kallidaikurichi]]
* Sri Agasthiyar Temple at [[Agasthiyar Falls]] (Kalyana Theertham) in [[Papanasam]] 

In [[Madurai District]], 

* Sri Lobamudra Samedha Agasthiyar Temple in the Arulmigu Chidambara Vinayagar Thirukoil at [[Vellalapatti]] (7&nbsp;km from [[Alagarkovil]]). 

Agastya statues or reliefs feature in numerous early medieval temples of north India, south India and Southeast Asia. One famous Agastya temple is also located in Uttarakhand in the town of Agastyamuni. The town derived its name from the name of Sage Agastya. The ''Dasavatara temple'' in [[Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh|Deogarh]] (Uttar Pradesh, near Madhya Pradesh border) features a 6th-century [[Gupta Empire]] era Agastya carving.<ref name="Bemmel1994p35">{{cite book|author=Helena A. van Bemmel|title=Dvarapalas in Indonesia: Temple Guardians and Acculturation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kNlt08SXW48C&pg=PA35|year=1994|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-90-5410-155-0|pages=35–37, 41–44, 60}}</ref> In [[Karnataka]] similarly, he is reverentially shown in several 7th-century temples such as the Mallikarjuna temple in Mahakuta and the Parvati temple in Sandur. He is a part of many Chalukya era Shaivism temples in the Indian subcontinent peninsula.<ref name="Bemmel1994p35"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Douglas E. Barrett|title=The dancing Siva in early south Indian art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rw83AQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0856721328|page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=James C. Harle|title=Temple Gateways in South India: The Architecture and Iconography of the Cidambaram Gopuras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZ5NAAAAYAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal|isbn=978-81-215-0666-3|page=135}}</ref>

The artistic iconography of South Asian and Southeast Asian temples show common themes such as he holding a pitcher, but also differences. For example, Agastya is featured inside or outside of the temple walls and sometimes as a guardian at the entrance (''dvarapala''), with or without a potbelly, with or without a receding hairline, with or without a dagger and sword.<ref name="Bemmel1994p35"/> Rock cut temples and caves, such as the 8th-century Pandya rock temples group, show Agastya.<ref name="Bemmel1994p35"/>