January 10, 2019

thiruvAimozhi nURRandhAdhi – 28 – mudiyAdha Asai

January 10, 2019 by sarathy

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous Essence of thiruvAimozhi 3.8 Introduction In this pAsuram, mAmunigaL is following AzhwAr’s pAsurams of saying how his senses and himself were in great anxiety and is mercifully explaining it. How is that done? In thiruvAimozhi 3.7 “payilum sudaroLi“, AzhwAr meditated upon … Read more

periya thiruvandhAdhi – 59 – mAdE varappeRuvArAm

January 10, 2019 by tnkrishnan

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai Since AzhwAr has ascertained with emperumAn that he would attain paramapadham, tells joyously “Could sins come anywhere near me!” Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings: mAdE varappeRuvarAm enRE val vinaiyAr kAdAnum AdhAnum kaikkoLLAr UdEpOyp pErOdham sindhuthiraik kaN … 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