prachAram – Chokkanāthar Temple – Bengaluru – 30-12-2025

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama:

Date/time – 30 December 2025

Venue – Chokkanāthar Temple – Bengaluru

On the auspicious occasion of Vaikunta Ekadasi, koyil.org organized and conducted bookstall and prachāram activities in
Chokkanāthar Temple for entire day
Temple Profile: Ancient temple with a history of nearly 1000 years
Volunteers In-Charge: Sri Giridhar and Sri Ravi Venkatraman
Many visitors engaged in detailed discussions on sampradāya concepts in addition to enquiring about books.
Interest increased steadily as the day progressed.

Contact – Sri Giridhar and Sri Ravi Venkatraman

Pictures: https://www.facebook.com/koyil.org/posts/pfbid0zzc3E9vvMXMyvSpMGpTzf46J3Z6aovADSMtUfxTmF5jQYbp1eVPksghCtusi8LTwl

adiyOngaL – https://koyil.org

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