dhrushtvA thu pANdavAnIkam vyUdam dhuryOdhanas thadhA AchAryam upasangamya rAjA vachanam abravIth

1.2 – dhrushtvAthu – (Advanced)

November 23, 2015 by venkatesh

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 1 << Previous Verse 1.1 dṛṣṭvā tu pāṇḍavānīkaṁ vyūḍhaṁ duryodhanas tadā ācāryam upasaṅgamya rājā vacanam abravīt Contemporary Sañjaya replied:–”King Duryodhana (your son), surveying the Pāṇḍava forces marshalled, approached his preceptor (Droṇa)[5. The Brāhmaṇa instructor of the Pāṇḍavas and the Kauravas in military sciences.] and … Read more

1.2 – dhrushtvAthu

November 23, 2015 by venkatesh

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 1 << Previous Verse 1.1 SlOkam sanjaya uvAcha dhrushtvA thu pANdavAnIkam vyUdam dhuryOdhanas thadhA| AchAryam upasangamya rAjA vachanam abravIth || word-by-word meaning rAja dhuryOdhana: – dhurOydhana the king vyUdam – lined up pANdavAnIkam – the army of pANdavas dhrushtvAthu – after seeing thadhA – … 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