September 30, 2017

2017 – October – Week 1

September 30, 2017 by sarathy

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: 7th (purattAsi aSwini) – granthams, dhivya prabandham updates SrIvaishNava granthams – thathva thrayam – achith – What is matter? – https://srivaishnavagranthamstamil.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/thathva-thrayam-achith-what-is-matter/ based on http://ponnadi.blogspot.in/2013/03/thathva-thrayam-achith-what-is-matter.html – thamizh translation by sadagopan swamy. Full series can be viewed at https://srivaishnavagranthamstamil.wordpress.com/thathva-thrayam/ . dhivya prabandham – iraNdAm thiruvandhAdhi – pAsuram … 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