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(Skt., ‘teacher of the people’). A theologian of
r
vai
avism
and regarded as the figure-head of the
Tenka
ai
. To distinguish him from an older teacher in the same tradition, he is called Pi
ai, ‘junior’ (his personal name was V
ra
dr
a). He died during the earlier part of the 14th cent. CE. Eighteen treatises are ascribed to him, all in a highly Sanskritized form of Tamil, of which the
Mumuk
uppa
i
,
r
vacanabh
a
am