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Rh UPPAGA.

This poetess and the two following were sisters to Avayar. She was born at Utakadu in the Arcot district, and was brought up by a washerwoman. She wrote a work on morality entitled Nili Patal.

 MUREGA. Was born at Kaveripatam, in the Chola country, she was reared up by a toddy-woman, and wrote a few poems on miscellaneous subjects.

 VALLY. Was born on the hill country, and was adopted, and brought up by people of the Karawan tribe. She wrote numerous poems.

 SATKARA. The only accounts handed down of this poet rests on legendary traditions and a document, according to which he was the chief poet of forty-eight in the congregation of Sanghatar; he was a resident of Madura, and took his place among a concourse of poets, on a seat which had been 