December 23, 2017

2017 – December – Week 5

December 23, 2017 by sarathy

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: 29th (mArgazhi bharaNi) – adhyayana uthsavam (various), gIthA, dhivya prabandham updates Today being vaikuNta EkAdhaSi, let us recollect the significance of adhyayana uthsavam. In English – http://ponnadi.blogspot.in/2013/11/anadhyayana-kalam-and-adhyayana-uthsavam.html In thamizh: http://srivaishnavagranthamstamil.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/anadhyayana-kalam-and-adhyayana-uthsavam/ In Hindi: http://srivaishnavagranthamshindi.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/anadhyayana-kalam-adhyayana-uthsav/ AzhwArthirunagari – adhyayana uthsavam – pagal paththu day 11 (yesterday) – http://azhwarthirunagari.koyil.org/?p=1221 … 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