Avvaiyar (ஔவையார்) means "revered grandmother" in Tamil. **The name of multiple Tamil poet-sages spanning two millennia** — **Avvaiyar I (Sangam era, c. 1st-3rd c. CE)** was an itinerant Tamil bard who composed didactic verses for children that are still memorized. **Avvaiyar II (10th c.)** wrote the Aathichudi — a moral primer that begins Tamil schoolchildren's education to this day.
**One of the most revered names in Tamil literary history.**
Avvaiyar reduces to seven — the number of Tamil grandmother-poet.