January 21, 2018

2018 – January – Week 4

January 21, 2018 by sarathy

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: 27th (thai rOhiNi) – SrIperumbUthUr, events, SrI vAnamAmalai mutt, granthams updates SrIperumbUthUr – thai kArthigai, Friday (yesterday) – http://sriperumbuthur.blogspot.com/2018/01/january-2018.html . SrIperumbUthUr – SrI vAnamAmalai mutt – thiruppAvai mAnAdu (sadhas/conference) invitation – http://vanamamalai.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=544:2018-thiruppavai-manadu-sriperumbuthur&catid=3:newsflash&Itemid=110 SrI vAnamAmalai mutt – appeal for SrIrangam VidyaPeetam Project – http://vanamamalai.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=543&Itemid=126 . SrIvaishNava … 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