Agastya

Agastya is the small seer of great deeds. He was born from a jar at a sacrifice of the gods, saw hymns of the Ṛgveda, the Veda of sacred hymns, took Lopāmudrā as his wife so that his ancestors might be saved, ate a demon whole, drank the ocean dry, and made the Vindhya mountains sink. The god Śiva sent him to the south, and the south has called him its own ever since: the sage of the Potiyil hills, who carried the river Kāviri in his water-pot. Rāma, the prince of Ayodhyā, came to his hermitage in the forest of Daṇḍaka and received weapons and counsel from him, and on the battlefield before Laṅkā it was Agastya who taught him the hymn to the sun.