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Source: archive.org: Puranic Encyclopedia

Agastyatīrtha (अगस्त्यतीर्थ).—This is one of the five tīrthas or sacred places of worship lying scattered in the southern ocean. The other four are the following: (1) The Saubhadra tīrtha (2) The Pauloma tīrtha (3) The Kārandhama tīrtha and (4) the Atipāvana tīrtha. These five were known as Pañca tīrthas and many saints used to live there. There lived in each of these tīrthas one huge and fierce crocodile and all the saints living there, afraid of these crocodiles, deserted their places one by one. (Ref: Śloka 3, Chapter 220 of Ādi Parva, Mahābhārata For more details see under Pañca tīrtha).

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Source: Heidelberg: Glory of the Tiruvanantapuram Padmanabhasvami Temple

Agastyatīrtha (अगस्त्यतीर्थ) refers to one of the Tīrthas (“sacred water-bodies”) mentioned in the Anantaśayanakṣetramāhātmya, a text talking about the Thiruvananthapuram temple in eleven chapters, written before the 14th century and claiming to be part of the Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa.—A māhātmya usually describes the Tīrthas (sacred water-bodies) in the surroundings of the centres that figure in that māhātmya. In the eleventh chapter Anantaśayanakṣetramāhātmya, too, we find a list of Tīrthas around the Tiruvanantapuram Temple [e.g., Agastyatīrtha] describing its legends and glory.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Agastyatīrtha (अगस्त्यतीर्थ).—Name of a celebrated Tīrtha in the south.

Derivable forms: agastyatīrtham (अगस्त्यतीर्थम्).

Agastyatīrtha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms agastya and tīrtha (तीर्थ).

[Sanskrit to German]

Agastyatirtha in German

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See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Tirtha, Agastya.

Full-text: Agastyasaras, Naritirtha, Karandhamana.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing Agastyatirtha, Agastyatīrtha, Agastya-tirtha, Agastya-tīrtha; (plurals include: Agastyatirthas, Agastyatīrthas, tirthas, tīrthas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)

Chapter 34 - The Miraculous Power of Agastya Tīrtha and Agastyeśvara < [Section 1 - Veṅkaṭācala-māhātmya]

Chapter 17 - The Glory of Agastyakuṇḍa: The Marriage of Kakṣīvān < [Section 1 - Setu-māhātmya]

Chapter 16 - The Glory of Agasti Tīrtha: The Story of Kakṣīvān < [Section 1 - Setu-māhātmya]

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