aga/sti ¦ m. (according to Uṇ. iv, 179 fr. 2.a-ga, a mountain, and asti, thrower, √ as). N. of a Ṛṣi (author of several Vedic hymns; said to have been the son of both Mitra and Varuṇa by Urvaśī; to have been born in a water-jar; to have been of short stature; to have swallowed the ocean, and compelled the Vindhya mountains to prostrate themselves before him; to have conquered and civilized the South; to have written on medicine, &c.)
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