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Valivitta Thevar (1889–1927) was an Indian social reformer and teacher. He was the ''kulaguru'' of Keelathooval area in Ramnad District in the early twentieth century. ==Background== Thooval Valivitta Thevar was born in KeelaSakkulam,near Kamuthi,to SiraiMeetta Thevar. They are descendants of AdhiNarayana Thevar, who was their important ancestor, whose name was given to successive generations and in vogue still today,in the considerable number of persons carrying the name in the village contemporarily. Valivitta Kilavan is their KulaDeivam. The temple is located on the road to Kamuthi from Mudukulathur. Their ancestral lands are inherited through generations to this day by their descendants. Historically the names have relations with the AdhiNarayana Sethupathy and Kilavan Sethupathy of those times.Kilavan Sethupathy was remembered as the legend and Saviour deity of the Sethupathy clan for his ingenuity in defeating the Maratha Army, which laid siege to Ramanathapuram. Muthuramalinga Thevar, the prominent political leader often referred them as their relatives. He was a part of the Sethupathi family,with thousands of acres inheritance. Valivitta Thevar in his childhood was showing good accomplishment in athletics and he was noticed by a visiting educationist, who took him along and educated him to become a teacher as per the existing educational system of those times. He became teacher in the Christian Missionaries School in Paramakudi. When he married Umayakkal,the daughter of Chinnu Thevar in Keelathooval, he shifted to the Government School in Kothanda Raman Pattinam (K.R.Pattinam), near Keelathooval. Here he continued to teach till his last days. Not only the formal education, but he taught the students in performing arts,like drama(Alli Arasani Kathai) and music also and conducted performances in Paramakudi town to popular acclaim. He noticed the non-availability of medical and astrological facilities and trained himself in Siddha (a branch of Ayurveda) tradition of medicine and Astrology and served his folks as their doctor and astrologer. His services spread the popularity of the ancient sciences of Siddha and Astrology and many of his students took to studying and practicing these sciences 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Valivitta Thevar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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