agnimāruti

E. agni fire, i. e. the fire of the stomach, the digestive faculty, and māruti a name of HANUMĀN; because the saint could digest as well as the monkey: the epithet alludes to a story of his devouring and digesting VĀTĀPI, a demon, who had assumed the form of a sheep.

E. agni fire, i. e. the fire of the stomach, the digestive fa-

culty, and māruti a name of Hanumat; because the saint

could digest as well as the monkey: the epithet alludes to

a story of his devouring and digesting Vātāpi, a demon,

who had assumed the form of a sheep.

m. (-tiḥ) A name of the saint, AGASTYA.

E. agni fire, i. e. the
fire of the stomach, the digestive faculty, and māruti a name of
HANUMAN; because the saint could digest as well as the monkey;
the epithet alludes to a story of his devouring and digesting
VĀTĀPI, a demon, who had assumed the form of a sheep.