December 21, 2014

thiruppAvai – 07 – kIchu kIchu

December 21, 2014 by raghuram

srI:srImathE satakOpAya nama:srImathE rAmAnujAya nama:srImadh varavaramunayE nama: Full Series Previous article In the second one of 10 wake-up pAsurams, they are waking up a gOpikA (who represents those) who knows bhagavath vishayam, but has forgotten about it now. She does not know that there is something better than bhagavath vishayam (i.e., knowing about and doing … Read more

thiruppaLLiyezhuchchi – Introduction (avathArikai)

December 21, 2014 by sarathy

srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImadh varavaramunayE nama: Full Series thaniyans periya perumAL – srIrangam thoNdaradippodi AzhwAr – srIrangam Based on introduction given by nanjIyar and periyavAchchAn piLLai nanjIyar‘s introduction As mentioned in “anAdhi mAyayA supthO yadhA jIva: prabudhyathE” (அநாதி மாயயா ஸுப்தோ யதா ஜீவ: ப்ரபுத்யதே – when the jIvAthmA awakes from the sleep … 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