August 16, 2015

2015 – August – Week 4

August 16, 2015 by sarathy

srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImath varavaramunayE nama: srI vAnAchala mahAmunayE nama: 22nd – srIperumbUthUr, guruparamparai, dhivya prabandham updates srIperumbUthUr – Friday – AvaNi swAthi (yesterday) – http://sriperumbuthur.blogspot.in/2015/08/august-2015-week-4.html guruparamparai – naduvil thiruvIdhip piLLai bhattar – life and glories in hindi – https://guruparamparaihindi.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/naduvil-thiruvidhi-pillai-bhattar/ – new article by kEshav swamy based on http://guruparamparai.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/naduvil-thiruvidhi-pillai-bhattar/ . Please visit … 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