 On one side there was the entire universe and on the other side was Agastya, whose austerity power and aura balanced the earth!Agastya appears in numerous itihasas and puranas including the major "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata".He is one of the seven or eight most revered rishis (the Saptarishi) in the Vedic texts, and is revered as one of the Tamil Siddhar in the Shaivism tradition, who invented an early grammar of the Tamil language, Agattiyam, playing a pioneering role in the development of Tampraparniyan medicine and spirituality at Saiva centres in proto-era Sri Lanka and South India.