After entrusting the responsibility of his ashrams in Dandakaranya to one of his foremost disciples, Suteekshna. Agasti Muni proceeded to Vindhyachal with ‘Nakkirar’, a government official. However, as the whole of Vindhyachal was covered in dense forest, they faced two major challenges which hindered their journey, (a) monstrously large trees, which blocked even the tiniest of sunrays and (b) ferocious beasts that roamed freely. Agasti Muni was accompanied by 108 of his young disciples. In spite of being faced with a most daunting situations, they made their way through the dense forest, seeing off the wild beasts and cutting down the trees, and in the process, even created a pathway. ‘Nakkirar’, through his travels, had got to know that the forest tribes of Shabar, Vidyādhar and Traipur inhabited the two Vindhya Mountain ranges of ‘Rukshawan’ and ‘Pariyatra’.
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