May 13, 2014 – KOYIL

2014 – May – Week 3

May 13, 2014 by sarathy

srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImadh varavaramunayE nama: srI vAnAchala mahAmunayE nama: 17th – srIperumbUthUr updates srIperumbUthUr – friday – thAyAr puRappAdu inside the temple – http://sriperumbuthur.blogspot.in/2014/05/may-2014-week-3.html 16th – AzhwArthirunagari, srIperumbUthUr, thiruppullANi updates AzhwArthirunagari – chithrA paurNami celebrations for 2 days – http://azhwarthirunagari.koyil.org/?p=289 srIperumbUthUr – mAsa pravEsam/anusham – rAmAnusa nURRanthAdhi gOshti – http://sriperumbuthur.blogspot.in/2014/05/may-2014-week-3.html … Read more

Pronunciation Guide

A is used for “aa” sound – example: emperumAnAr, rAmAnuja

E is used for “yay” sound – example: EkAdhasi

I is used for “ee” sound – example: Iswara

O is used for “Oh” sound – example: Om

U is used for “oo” sound – example: Urdhva pundram

zh is used for very strong “l” sound – example: AzhwAr

L is used for strong “l” sound – example: muL (thorn)

N is used for strong “n” sound – example: nArAyaNa

R is used for strong "r" sound - example: puRappAdu (procession); its also used for "tr" sound in thamizh when there is double "R" - example: uRRAr (utRAr - relative)

d is used strong “d” sound – example: garuda

dh is used for meek “d” sound – example: gOvindha

t is used for strong “t” sound – example: ganta

th is used for meek “t” sound – example: vratham

sa, sha, ksha are typed as it is – examples: samskritham, shashti and kshamA

: is used for ha sound in samskritham words – examples: nama: to be said as namaha

Terminologies listing at Reader's Guide