Agastya Muni was sent to South India by Shiva the Aadhi Yogi, or the first yogi.

He
consecrated every human habitation south of the Deccan Plateau in some form and made
sure that a live spiritual process was on. He did not spare a single human habitation. They
say it took him 4000 years of work. We do not know whether it is 4000 or 400 or 140 but
looking at the phenomenal amount of work and the amount of travel that he did, he
obviously lived a very extraordinary lifespan. Agastya muni went to the extent of saying that
when the world truly goes off the track because of development and knowledge, when
knowledge becomes poison, when what should be good for you becomes negative for you,
his work would rise and act.