thaniyan – KOYIL

Arththi prabandham – thaniyans (Invocation)

June 5, 2016 by santhanam

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series thaniyan 1 thEn payilum thArAn ethirAsan sEvadi mEl* thAn paramapaththi thalaiyeduththu* mAndharkku uNavAga Arththiyudan oNdamizhgaL seydhAn* maNavALa mAmunivan vandhu Listen word-by-word meanings maNavALa mAmunivan – periya jIyar, who is also known by the name of maNavALa mAmunigaL vandhu – incarnated in this world. … Read more

thiruvezhukURRirukkai – thaniyans (Invocation)

April 20, 2015 by raghuram

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series First thaniyan piLLai lOkam jIyar’s vyAkyanam of thaniyan in maNipravALam (a writing style in which thamizh and sanskrit are mixed) is being translated here. This thaniyan sings pallANdu (mangaLAsAsanam/well-wishes) to thirumangai AzhwAr who sang the six prabandhams that provide protective walls to emperumAn, … Read more

thiruvezhukURRirukkai

April 10, 2015 by raghuram

srI: srImathE satakOpAya nama: srImathE rAmAnujAya nama: srImath varavaramunayE nama: thiruvezhukURRirukkai (pronounced as thiruvezhukUtrirukkai) is one of the prabandhams sung by thirumangai AzhwAr. e-book of the whole series: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=32ECDEC5E2737323!175&authkey=!APcshOyxxKLp-5A&ithint=file%2cpdf Audio thirumangai AzhwAr sang periya thirumozhi first; he ended with the prayer to emperumAn to help get rid of the dhEha sambandham (relationship of AthmA with 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