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pediment

triangular part crowning the front of a building

Tamil classification of women: a woman thirty-two to forty years old

‘Great Sacred Text’ compiled by Sekkilar; the hagiographic account of the lives of the sixty-three nayanmar, or the Shiva poet-saints

Tamil classification of women: a girl of five to seven years old

Tamil classification of women: a young girl eight to eleven years of age