Agastya Samhita

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Agastya Samhita is not a single book but several Sanskrit works credited to sage Agastya. In the Pancharatra tradition, one version is a dialogue about worshipping Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, and Hanuman, and it is also called the Agastya-Sutīkṣṇa-Samvāda. Other Pancharatra texts share the name but are different from this dialogue. Some sections of Puranas said to be written by Agastya are also called Agastya Samhita; for example a part of the Skanda Purana, sometimes called the Sankara Samhita, presented as a Skanda–Agastya dialogue that also includes notes on Shiva temples. The authenticity of this version is debated because it blends Vaishnavism with Shaivism. Additionally, Agastya Samhita is the name of a section of the Garuda Purana that deals with gems; the Garuda Purana has two other sections, the Brihaspati Samhita (Nitisara) and the Dhanvantari Samhita, which cover topics like material science, law, and medicine.