Editing Agastya (section)

===Mahabharata===
The story of Agastya is mirrored in the second major Hindu epic ''[[Mahabharata]]''. However, instead of Rama, the story is told as a conversation between Yudhishthira and Lomasa starting with section 96 of Book 3, the ''[[Vana Parva]]'' (the Book of Forest).{{sfn|Buitenen|1981|pp=409–411}}

He is described in the epic as a sage with enormous powers of ingestion and digestion.{{sfn|Buitenen|1981|pp=187–188}} Agastya, once again, stops the Vindhya mountains from growing and lowers them and he kills the demons Vatapi and Ilvala much the same mythical way as in the ''Ramayana''. The ''Vana Parva'' also describes the story of Lopamudra and Agastya getting engaged and married. It also contains the mythical story of a war between Indra and Vritra, where all the demons hide in the sea, and the gods request Agastya for help; Agastya then drinks up the ocean, revealing the demons to the gods.{{sfn|Buitenen|1981|pp=409–411}}