THIRUVALLUVAR - By Sri Swami Sivananda.
================================================================ ====================================================================== Wednesday, November 17, 2021. 7:00AM. THIRUVALLUVAR - By Sri Swami Sivananda ====================================================================== This biography is from Swami Sivanandaji’s book “Lives of Saints”. ===================================================================== About two thousand years ago there flourished in Mylapore, Madras, a born Siddha and a born poet by name Valluvar or, as he is more commonly known, ‘Thiruvalluvar’, which only means, ‘the devotee of the Valluva caste’. Valluvas are Pariahs (now called Harijans) and their vocation was proclaiming the orders of the king by beat of drum. There is a tradition that Thiruvalluvar was the son of one Bhagavan, a Brahmin, and Adi, a Pariah woman whom he had married. Thiruvalluvar was born at Madurai, the capital of the Pandyas. He is regarded as an Avatara of Brahma. His wife Vas