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'''Avudai Akkal''', also known as '''Senkottai Sri Avudai Akkal''', was an 18th-century [[Tamil language|Tamil]] [[composer]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pattabhi Raman|first1=Sulochana|title=Compositions of Avudai Akkal|url=http://www.thehindu.com/br/2003/12/30/stories/2003123000121600.htm|accessdate=12 May 2017|work=www.thehindu.com|date=30 December 2003}}</ref> and [[saint]]. As was the custom those days, she was married at a very young age but her husband died too soon. At that time, the great saint [[Thirivisanallur Sri Sridhara Ayyaval]] visited their village. She approached him for guidance. He initiated her into the mystic aspects of [[Advaita]]. She mentions his name in almost every songs. She has written several plays, songs, poems full of spirituality. She is said to have mysteriously disappeared in the hills of [[Courtallam]] on an aadi amavasya day.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pisharoty|first1=Sangeeta Barooah|title=Reclaiming Akkal|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/reclaiming-akkal/article5335348.ece|accessdate=12 May 2017|work=The Hindu|date=10 November 2013|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://solvanam.com/2010/08/23/%e0%ae%9a%e0%af%86%e0%ae%99%e0%af%8d%e0%ae%95%e0%af%8b%e0%ae%9f%e0%af%8d%e0%ae%9f%e0%af%88-%e0%ae%b8%e0%af%8d%e0%ae%b0%e0%af%80-%e0%ae%86%e0%ae%b5%e0%af%81%e0%ae%9f%e0%af%88-%e0%ae%85%e0%ae%95/|title=செங்கோட்டை ஸ்ரீ ஆவுடை அக்காள் பாடல் திரட்டு|first=நாஞ்சில்|last=நாடன்|date=23 August 2010|website=சொல்வனம் &#124; இதழ் 310&#124;14 ஜன 2023}}</ref><br />
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==Works Published as==<br />
About 100+ of Avudai Akkal's songs have been collected and published as<br />
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1. A book ″Shenkottai Sri Avudai Akkal Padal Thirattu (A collection of Vedantic songs of Avudai Akkal of Shenkottai)”<br />
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2. CD of Avudai Akkal songs sung by Bombay Sisters<br />
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3. Translation of these Tamil Verses is published as “Transgressing Boundaries – The songs of shenkottai Avudai Akkal” by Zubaan books<br />
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4. Swami Ramanacharanatirtha's talk on Devi Avudai Akkal [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9FRIJp1Ncw The Great Jñāni - Avudai Akkal ]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite book|last=Natarajan|first=Kanchana|title=Transgressing boundaries: the advaitic songs of Shenkottai Avudai Akkal|date=2012|publisher=Zubaan|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-9381017-16-6|url=http://zubaanbooks.com/shop/transgressing-boundaries-the-songs-of-shenkottai-avudai-akkal/}}<br />
* செங்கோட்டை ஸ்ரீ ஆவுடை அக்காள், Tamil, 2012, Sri Gyanananda Niketanam<br />
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[[Category:Tamil poets]]<br />
[[Category:18th-century Indian poets]]<br />
[[Category:Advaitin philosophers]]<br />
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