September 20, 2019

periya thirumadal – 46 – ennai idhu viLaiththa

September 20, 2019 by tnkrishnan

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous ennai idhu viLaiththa IriraNdu mAlvaraiththOL mannavan than kAdhalanai mAyaththARkoNdu pOy 63 kanni thanpAl vaikka maRRavanOdu eththanaiyOr manniya pErinbam eydhinAL – maRRivaidhAn 64 Word by word meaning pAviyEn ennai idhu viLaiththa Ir iraNdu mAlvaraiththOL – the four shoulders which are like a … Read more

SrIvishNu sahasranAmam – 22 (Names 211 to 220)

September 20, 2019 by srinivasarajan

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Part 21 211) gururguruthama: (गुरुर्गुरुतमः) Thence the incarnation as the great fish – mathsyAvathAra – is hailed. bhagavAn is called ‘gururguruthama:’, since he is the foremost preceptor of all knowledge. He is hailed by hiraNya garbha as ‘the preceptor of even 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