Siddhar-Agasthiar

There had been various legends regarding the birth of Agasthiyar, however here i could put forth only two of those legends.

One from the curse of lord Indra (celestial king) on lord Agni and lord Vayu. So he had been the fusion of both lord Agni and lord Vayu.

Another one from the curse on celestial beauty vurvasi by lord Mithra (Air), for she had thought lord Varuna in her mind, while she had been in relationship with Mithra.

Legend 2

There had been another legend about the birth of Agasthiyar.

On those days, the ocean had been dominated by the lord Mitran (Air) and lord Varunan (water) and they had been ruling the reign of water resources. Lord Mitra, having stunned by the beauty of celestial angel 'Vurvasi', had invited her to have a relationship with him.

She also accepted for that. At the same time, lord Varunan also wanted to have relationship with her. But she refused his proposal, for she had already accepted Mithra's relationship. Having known the reply of Vurvasi, Varunan had told her that he too had the equal power of that what Mithran had, and urged her to accept his proposal.

Vurvasi had been in dilemma that what to do, since she didn't want to get his enmity. For that, an alternate idea had been proposed by Varunan, that even she could have a relationship with Mithra, during that time, she would have bear him (Varunan) in her mind.

Having planned already by both Varuna and Vurvasi, when she had been with mithra, she thought Varuna in her mind. Having known this by his super power, Mithra got angry over Vurvasi and had cursed her to take birth in the earth.

At the same time, both Mithra and Varuna had released their 'Veeryam' (semen), because of having the lust over her. Out of these two 'Veeryams', one had been transformed into the sage 'Vasistar' and came out from the ocean and the another one had transformed into the sage 'Agasthiyar' and came out from the 'Kumbham'.

Since he had came out from the 'Kumbham', he had been called as 'Kumbhayoni'and 'Kudamuni'. Agasthiyar had been directed by lord Shiva to balance the world, when it had been raised up in the north, due to the holy wedding of lord Shiva with goddess sri Parvathi Devi at Kailash. Having accepted the lord's order, Agasthiar as a single person had gone to south and balanced the world as usual.

Once Agasthiyar asked one of his prime disciples, Tholkapiyar that he should brought his (Agasthiyar's) wife Ulopamuthirai from the country of Vitharpa. Having accepted the order of Agasthiyar, Tholkapiar had asked his guru that how should he bring Agasthiyar's wife with him.

Agasthiyar told him that he should maintain about 4 feet gap on both front and back with his (Agasthiyar's) wife. Having held this in mind, Tholkapiar also reached the country 'Vitharpa', and asked her to come with him.

While returning their way back to home, Both of them had to cross the the flood in river vaigai. Having remembered his guru's order in mind, he asked her to hold a stick as a grip between both, in order to cross the river safely.

They both reached safely to the place of Agasthiyar's and explained him that how they had crossed the river. Agasthiar, having anger on it's peak, had cursed both of them that they hardly could get the heaven.

Having stunned by that, Tholkapiar, in his turn, also cursed his guru the same, what he had imposed on them, since Tholkapiar hadn't done any fault by all means. On behalf of that bitter experience, Tholkapiar had been directed to 'Aathankottasiriyan', while he had submitted his grammatical book 'Tholkapiam' to his guru Agasthiyar for the test-research about his book.