Agastya Rishi ( ancient scientist)

                  Agastya with his wife

The Agastya a Brahmin who invented electric cell and leads ascetic life, educates himself, becoming a celebrated sage. His unknown origins have led to speculative proposals that the #Vedic-era Agastya may have been a migrant whose ideas influenced the south 

Agastya was a revered Vedic sage of Hinduism,In Indian tradition, he is a noted recluse and an influential scholar in diverse languages of the Indian subcontinent. He and his wife Lopamudra are the celebrated authors of hymns 1.165 to 1.191 in the Rigveda and other Vedic lit. 

संस्थाप्य मृण्मये पात्रे ताम्रपत्रं सुसंस्कृतम्‌।

छादयेच्छिखिग्रीवेन चार्दाभि: काष्ठापांसुभि:॥

दस्तालोष्टो निधात्वय: पारदाच्छादितस्तत:।

संयोगाज्जायते तेजो मित्रावरुणसंज्ञितम्‌॥

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