July 14, 2015

thiruvAimozhi – 1.4.3 – vidhiyinAl pedai

July 14, 2015 by sarathy

srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImath varavaramunayE nama: Full series >> First Centum >> Fourth decad Previous pAsuram Introduction for this pAsuram Highlights from thirukkurukaippirAn piLLAn‘s introduction No specific introduction. Highlights from nanjIyar‘s introduction Seeing that emperumAn is thinking “one has to experience the result of one’s sins surely”, AzhwAr requests through some … Read more

rAmAnusa nURRanthAdhi – thaniyans

July 14, 2015 by raghuram

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavaramunayE nama: Full Series vyAkyAnam for thaniyans (invocations) – by piLLai lOkam jIyar 1st thanyan (invocation) – by vEdhap pirAn bhattar: munnai vinai agala mUngil kudi amudhan ponnam kazhar kamalap pOdhu iraNdum – ennudaiya chennikku aNiyAgach chErththinEn then pulaththArkku ennuk kadavudaiyEn yAn Listen aVathArikai (introduction) (adiyEn) wore … 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