Come out.” Vatapi would emerge tearing the stomach of the sages. The rakshasa brothers killed thousands of holy men using ...

Agastya smiled and agreed to go with him. As the sage was washing off the dust of his journey, Ilvala told Vatapi, “Now quickly change your form and let me cook you.” When the sage appeared ...

Krishnamurthy Sastrigal in a lecture. Rama alludes to the singular manner by which Agastya put an end to the atrocious trickery of demons Ilvala and Vatapi who feasted on the sages. Since they ...

The town faces the Agastya lake which is surrounded by two hills, Vatapi and Ilvala named after the two demon siblings who wreaked havoc in the region till the sage Agastya outsmarted them.

And Vatapi, tearing apart the victim’s body, would emerge. Then they would eat the victim. They tried the trick on Agastya Rishi, but he was insightful enough to see the trap. After he finished ...

Ilvala summons his brother with 'Vatapi atragacha' and Vatapi comes tearing out of the victim's tummy, killing the hapless but greedy soul. In the Mahabharata, it was sage Agastya who saw through ...

And so Badami - where the Puranas say the wicked asura Vatapi was killed by Sage Agastya - could well be the seat of the CM with the Kuruba majority in the constituency sure to plump for him.

Photos by Srikumar M Menon Lower Sivalaya, Badami. Photos by Srikumar M Menon A view of the Agastya Tirtha at ground level. Photos by Srikumar M Menon The Hire Makuteshwara Temple ...

Vatapi,” Another version on the Udayachandramangalam copper plates, found in a Kancheepuram village on the banks of the Palar river, reads: “Narasimhavarman, the equal of Agastya the crusher ...

named after demon brothers Vatapi and Ilval, who were slain by saint Agastya. Badami was the capital of early Western Chalukyas (535 to 757 CE.). Pulakeshi I (544-67) is considered the founder of the ...