historical-figureAgastyaBeings · Myth & storyThe named southern rishi of later Tamil and Puranic story. Not a saptarishi dump, and not a deity.Vedic traditionAgastya appears in Vedic tradition.The Ṛgveda preserves hymns of the Agastya Maitrāvaruṇi ṛṣi family among its seer speech. A named Agastya in that corpus, not a saptarishi checklist dump and not a deity.from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much olderappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesThe Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.