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 Once Agasthya thought he should marry. So he went in search of a suitable bride to the King of Vidarbha who had a daughter named  Lopamudra.  Agasthya met the king and said,“0 King, I want to marry your daughter.” Lopamudra agreed to marry Agasthya.  After marriage  she followed Agasthya .  She proved an excellent wife.  She obeyed every wish of his and never said a word in disagreement.  Agasthya was very happy to get such a dutiful wife. Once Lopamudra remembered the ornaments and silk sarees that she wore in the palace of her father.  So she said very hesitantly to Agasthya, “I want to wear ornaments and fine clothes. Please get me some.” She was the daughter of a king.  Hence it was natural that she should ask for such things.  And he felt that it was his duty to fulfill her . He went to emperors and monarchs and asked them for ornaments. Many kings, feeling happy and thinking that it was their good fortune to fulfill the wishes of such a great sage, gave him jewels.  Thus Agasthy

 Agastya, the star is said to be the 'cleanser of waters', and its rising coincides with the calming of the waters of the Indian Ocean.  It is thus considered the son of Pulastya, son of Brahma.  Canopus is described by Pliny the Elder and Gaius Julius Solinus as the largest, brightest and only source of starlight for navigators near Tamraparni island (ancient Sri Lanka) during many nights. Agastya appears in numerous itihasas and Puranas including the major Ramayana and Mahabharata.  He is one of the seven most revered rishis (the Saptarishi) in the Vedic texts.  He is also revered in the Puranic literature of Shaktism and Vaishnavism. He is one of the Indian sages found in ancient sculpture and reliefs in Hindu temples of South Asia, and Southeast Asia such as in the early medieval era Shaiva temples on Java Indonesia. Sage Agastya in seated posture.  This sculpture is from Angkor period, Cambodia, c. 975 CE. He is the principal figure and Guru in the ancient Javanese languag