January 23, 2017

8.19 bhUthagrAma: sa EvAyam

January 23, 2017 by venkatesh

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 18 SlOkam – Original bhUthagrAma: sa EvAyam bhUthvA bhUthvA praleeyathE | rAtryAgamE’vaSa: pArtha prabhavathyaharAgamE || word-by-word meaning pArtha – Oh son of kunthI! avaSa: sa Eva ayam bhUthagrAma: – the collection of those jIvAthmAs which are bound by karma … Read more

8.19 bhūta-grāmaḥ sa evāyaṁ (Original)

January 23, 2017 by venkatesh

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 18 Simple bhūta-grāmaḥ sa evāyaṁ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate rātry-āgame ’vaśaḥ pārtha prabhavaty ahar-āgame ‘The self-same bonded multitude of things repeatedly become, disappearing with approach of Night, and appearing with approach of Day.’ Those who know the order of Day … 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