TALAKAVERI & ITS GLORY

ANTIQUITY

There are many interesting episodes connected with the origin, course and confluence of this holy river. Scriptures embody exciting accounts, and although they are at variance in certain factors, they sing in unision about its glory and status with one voice, as it were. Tamil devotional literature has elaborate anecdotes and it grows eloquence, since Cauvery was the dear spouse of Sage Agasthya, their patron saint, instrumental for their life and living in their entirety. The linking up of Cauvery with Agasthya has different versions. 

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