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'''Avvaiyar''' ([[Tamil language|Tamil]]: ஔவையார்) was a [[Tamil literature|Tamil poet]] who lived during the seventh or eighth century and was a follower of the poet-saint [[Sundarar]].<ref name="mystics">{{cite book |last1=Subramanian |first1=V. K. |title=101 Mystics of India |date=2006 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |isbn=978-81-7017-471-4 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPPWvkKXwCwC&pg=PA43 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Dalal |first1=Roshen |title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide |date=18 April 2014 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-81-8475-277-9 |page=242 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zrk0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT242 |language=en}}</ref> She was the author of ''[[Vinayagar Agaval]]'', a [[Hindu devotional movements#Form|devotional]] poetic [[hymn]] to the [[Hindu deities|Hindu deity]] [[Ganesh|Ganesha]].<ref name="mystics"/> The name Avvaiyar means a 'respectable good woman', hence a generic title; her personal name is not known.<ref>{{Cite book<br />
| last = Mukherjee<br />
| first = Sujit<br />
| title = A dictionary of Indian literature<br />
| publisher = Orient Blackswan<br />
| year = 1999<br />
| location = India<br />
| page = 32<br />
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YCJrUfVtZxoC<br />
| isbn = 978-81-250-1453-9}}</ref><br />
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* {{cite book |author=Edward Jewitt Robinson |title=Tamil Wisdom: Traditions Concerning Hindu Sages and Selections from Their Writings |url=https://archive.org/details/tamilwisdomtradi0000robi|year=2001 |publisher=Asian Educational Services |location = New Delhi|isbn=9788120615878 |ref={{sfnRef|Robinson, 2001}}}}<br />
* Krishnamurti, Dr. C.R. (Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada) Thamizh Literature Through the Ages [http://tamilnation.org/literature/krishnamurti/07grammar.htm]<br />
* Project Madurai – Purananuru eText – http://tamilnation.org/literature/ettuthokai/pm0057.pdf<br />
* Project madurai – Avvaiyar works in PDF – http://tamilnation.org/literature/auvaiyar/pm002.pdf<br />
* http://www.aathithamizharperavai.com/home.html<br />
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110308182216/http://www.tn.gov.in/policynotes/archives/policy2004_05/hrce2004-05-3.htm<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://projectmadurai.org Project Madurai Homepage]<br />
* [http://tamilnation.org/literature/auvaiyar/index.htm Avvaiyar & her Writings]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150608003648/http://vidyuthpublications.com/book/2/Auvaiyaars-Aathisoodi-Translated-into-English.html Aathisoodi Meaning in English] - Translated into English<br />
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[[Category:8th-century women writers]]</div>Ajay Kumar