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The Avvai of the Sanģam Antholoģies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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There is perhaps no writer held in greater esteem in the Tamil country than the poetess Avvai or Auvai, as her name is given in the old commentaries and in a poem of the Sangam age.1 The editor of a selection of poems from those traditionally ascribed to Avvai says that the poetess was an incarnation of the goddess of learning, while the writer of the foreword to his book says the joy of her presence is with us in the world to-day. An editor and annotator of a philosophical work ascribed to her writes in much the same strain, remarking that the work in question is the fruit of the penance of the whole Tamil country.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 1948 , pp. 399 - 402
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1948