Editing Agastya (section)

===Agastya ashram===
Agastya had a hermitage (''[[ashram]]''), but the ancient and medieval era Indian texts provide inconsistent stories and location for this ''ashram''. Two legends place it in Northwest Maharashtra, on the banks of the river [[Godavari]], near [[Nashik]] in small towns named ''Agastyapuri'' and ''Akole''. Other putative sites mentioned in Northern and Eastern Indian sources are near [[Sangli]] in Ainwadi (Agastinagar) (Tal-khanapur)  village (Western ghats at Maharashtra), or near [[Kannauj]] (Uttar Pradesh), or in Agastyamuni village near [[Rudraprayag]] (Uttarakhand), or [[Satpura Range]] (Madhya Pradesh). In Southern sources and the North Indian ''[[Devi-Bhagavata Purana]]'', his ''ashram'' is based in Tamil Nadu, variously placed in [[Tirunelveli]], the [[Pothigai|Pothigai Hills]], or [[Thanjavur]].{{sfn|Dalal|2010|p=294}} Facing east, he penanced upon a rock at [[Kanyakumari]] immediately after the beginning of ''[[Kali Yuga]]''. It is also considered that his final resting place is in [[Agastya Malai|Agastyarkoodam]] in [[Thiruvananthapuram]].