dharmakshEthrE kurukshEthrE samavEthA yuyuthsuva: mAmakA: pANdavAschaiva kimakurvatha sanjaya

1.1 – dharmakshEthrE

October 1, 2015 by sarathy

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 1 SlOkam dhrutharAshtra uvAcha dharmakshEthrE kurukshEthrE samavEthA yuyuthsuva: | mAmakA: pANdavAschaiva kimakurvatha sanjaya || word-by-word meaning sanjaya – Oh sanjaya! dharmakshEthrE kurukshEthrE – in the righteous land of kurukshEthra yuyuthsava – having the desire to fight samavEthA – assembled as a group mAmakA: – … Read more

1.1 – dharmakshEthrE (Advanced)

October 1, 2015 by venkatesh

SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 1 dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca dharma-kṣetre kuru-kṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva kim akurvata sañjaya Contemporary Dhṛitaṛāshtra asked:–”O Sañjaya! What did my people and the Paṇdavās do, assembled on the plains of Kurukshetra[4. A tract of land to the east of Jamna (yamuna) river, in 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