Which of the following pairs of women saints and respective tradition is/are matched correctly?

Andal – Alvar

Karaikkal Ammaiyar – Lingayat Shaiva

Akka Mahadevi – Nayannar

Mirabai – Vaishnava

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Andal, also known as Kothai, Nachiyar, and Godadevi, was the only female Alvar among the twelve poet-saints of South India. She was considered to be the human incarnation of the Goddess Bhudevi. As with the Alvar saints, she was affiliated to the Sri Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism.
Karaikkal Ammaiyar was a sixth-century South Indian Shaiva poet She is one of the three women amongst the 63 Nayanars and one of the greatest figures of early Tamil literature.
Akka Mahadevi was one of the early female poets of the Kannada literature and a prominent person in the Lingayat Shaiva sect in the 12th century.
Mirabai was a Hindu mystical poetess and a Vaishnava saint, who was passionately in love with Lord Krishna and composed many \'bhajans\'.

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Andal, also known as Kothai, Nachiyar, and Godadevi, was the only female Alvar among the twelve poet-saints of South India. She was considered to be the human incarnation of the Goddess Bhudevi. As with the Alvar saints, she was affiliated to the Sri Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism.
Karaikkal Ammaiyar was a sixth-century South Indian Shaiva poet She is one of the three women amongst the 63 Nayanars and one of the greatest figures of early Tamil literature.
Akka Mahadevi was one of the early female poets of the Kannada literature and a prominent person in the Lingayat Shaiva sect in the 12th century.
Mirabai was a Hindu mystical poetess and a Vaishnava saint, who was passionately in love with Lord Krishna and composed many \'bhajans\'.

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