February 13, 2016

thiruvAimozhi – 2.3.2 – oththAr mikkArai

February 13, 2016 by sarathy

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full series >> Second Centum >> Third decad Previous pAsuram Introduction for this pAsuram Highlights from thirukkurukaippirAn piLLAn‘s introduction After praising his heart, AzhwAr relishes emperumAn’s merciful favours towards him by informing emperumAn about that. Highlights from nanjIyar‘s introduction In the second pAsuram – AzhwAr … Read more

upadhESa raththina mAlai – 73

February 13, 2016 by raghuram

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous (pUrvAchariyargaL bhOdham anuttAnangaL) pAsuram 73 indha upadhESa raththina mAlai thannaich chindhai thannil nALum sindhippAr – endhai ethirAsar innaruLukku enRum ilakkAgich chathirAga vAzhndhiduvar thAm. 73 Listen Word by word meaning sindhippAr thAm – Those who reflect on indha upadhESa raththina mAlai thannai … Read more

SaraNAgathi gadhyam – chUrNai 20

February 13, 2016 by tnkrishnan

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous varAha perumAL who vowed to deliver his devotees at the time of their death avathArikai (Introduction): In the previous chUrNai, starting with Evam bhUthOsi, bhagavAn has narrated all that a person (bhagavadh SrI rAmAnuja) who surrenders gets and also what the … 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