Singapore has a beutiful Museum by name Asian Civilisation Museum !!
Never miss an opportunity to visit the museum if you are visitng the Lion City.
The Museum has cross cultural artefacts of Chinese,Indian,Malay,Indonesian, Local and varied cultures and civilisations !!
One of the interesting statues that attracted me was Saint Agastyar's standing posture rock cut out that is from the Far Eastern Indonesian Islands that is preserved here !!
Saint Agastyar is considered in Tamil Literature as one of the Siddhars. Siddhar is one who has gained some "Siddhi" (Mystical Power).
Read the book on Baabaji you find that the Agastyar is supposed to have travelled out of South India and may far east locations. This probably signifies why agastyar is popular in Indonesian Islands !
Surprisingly we find that this statue of Agastyar is available in this Asiatic Museum not from India but from Indonesian Origin.
Such is the variety of this Asiatic Museum. To talk about that words not enough. One should visit to understand it
During National Day Holidays the museum is thrown open to the public graciously free of admission charges too!!
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