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04:4004:40, 15 April 2025 diff hist +2,154‎ N Talk:Jyotisha:Omens, Signs ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Where can you discover water? Where does ground water occur? Or where do streams flow inside the earth? By what signs on the surface do you make out the presence of water underground? How are perfumes manufactured? What are the right measurements for a house? These questions are discussed in the samhita-skandha of Jyotisa. Also omens and signs. "Sakuna" is one thing, "nimitta" quite another. "Sakuna" literally..." current
04:3804:38, 15 April 2025 diff hist +2,469‎ N Talk:Jyotisha:The Grahas and Human Life ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami The conditions of man correspond to the changes in the position of the nine grahas. A human being does not enjoy happiness all the time nor does he always suffer hardships-- that is he experiences a mixture of happiness and sorrow. While he may be pushed up to a high position today, he may be thrust down to the depths tomorrow. It is not man alone that is subject to changes of fortune. Establishments too have the..." current
04:3604:36, 15 April 2025 diff hist +2,319‎ N Talk:Jyotisha:Planets, Stars ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami How do the planets differ from the stars? The planets revolve round the sun; the stars do not belong to the sun's "mandala" [they are not part of the solar system]. If you hold a diamond in your hand and keep shaking it about, it will glitter. The stars glitter in the same way and twinkle, but the planets do not twinkle. The sun and the stars are self-luminous. The stars dazzle like polished diamonds. The plan..." current
04:3404:34, 15 April 2025 diff hist +5,972‎ N Talk:Jyotisha:Ancient Mathematical Treatises ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Jyotisa, as we have seen, consists of three sections. There was a scholarly man in the Matha who was particularly learned in this science. We wished to honour him with a title and decided upon "TriskandhaBhaskara". "Skandha" literally means a big branch springing from the trunk of a tree. The three skandhas of Jyotisas are: siddhanta, hora and samhita. The siddhanta-skandha deals with arithmetic, trigonometry,..." current
04:3104:31, 15 April 2025 diff hist +1,215‎ N Talk:Jyotisha:Astronomy and Astrology ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Astronomy examines the position of the planets and other heavenly bodies. It does not concern itself with how they affect the life of the world or the individual. It is not its function to find out how far the celestial bodies are beneficial to us or how they may be made favourable to us. Such functions belong to astrology. Jyotisa includes both astronomy and astrology. Telling us about the results of performi..." current
04:2504:25, 15 April 2025 diff hist +3,063‎ N Talk:Jyotisha:Eye of the Vedapurusa ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Of the fourteen branches of learning basic to our Vedic religion, I have so far dealt with siksa, Vyakarana, Chandas and Nirukta. These four form part of Sadanga (the six limbs of the Vedas). I will now speak about Jyotisa, it being the first of the remaining two of the Sadanga. Jyotisa, which is the science of the celestial bodies and the eye of the Vedapurusa, consists of three "skandhas" or sections. So it is..." current
04:2304:23, 15 April 2025 diff hist +3,377‎ N Talk:Nirukta: Ear of the Vedapurusa ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Nirukta serves the purpose of a Vedic dictionary, or "kosa". A dictionary is also called a "nighantu", which term is used in Tamil also. Nirukta, which deals with the origin of words, their roots, that is with etymology, is the ear of the Vedapurusa. It explains the meaning of rare words in the Vedas and how or why they are used in a particular context. Many have contributed to Nirukta, the work of Yaksa being th..." current
04:1604:16, 15 April 2025 diff hist +4,641‎ N Talk:Vyakarana:Linguistic Studies and Religion ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Use this Use Hindu Dharma Acharya's Call Voice of Sankara Personal Experiences Sri Adi Sankara Namo Namah Dasoupadesam Naamavali / Pushpaanjali Tamil Telugu Siksa, Vyakarna and the subjects I have yet to deal with -Chandas and Nirukta-are Vedangas-(limbs of the vedas) connected with language. After I said that I would deal with matters basic to our religion, I have been speaking about linguistic studies and gr..." current
04:1304:13, 15 April 2025 diff hist +1,725‎ N Talk:Vyakarana:Sanskrit - The Universal Language ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Sanskrit is the language of all mankind; it is an international language and also the language of the gods. The gods are called "girvanas"; so Sanskrit is called "Gairvani". While the emperor of Tamil poetry, Kambar, describes it as the "devabhasa", the Sanskrit poet Dandin calls it “daivi vak"(divine speech) in his Kavyadarsa: “Samskrtam nama daivi vak. " Sanskrit has no syllable that indistinct or unclea..." current
04:1104:11, 15 April 2025 diff hist +2,297‎ N Talk:Vyakarana:Sanskrit and Tamil Grammar ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Just as "illakanam", the Tamil word for grammar, is derived from the Sanskrit "laksana", so too a number of other words that have to do with grammar in that language are of Sanskrit origin. For instance, there are two terms used in Tamil grammar, pakuti (pahuti) and vikuti (vihuti). To illustrate in the word "Ramanukku" (for Raman ), "Raman " is pakuti and "ku" is "vikuti". Both terms pakuti and vikuti are derive..." current
04:1004:10, 15 April 2025 diff hist +1,372‎ N Talk:Vyakarana:Works on Grammar ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami In the stanza [in the previous chapter] we saw that the poet calls Siva "Candravatamsa". It means the god who has the moon for a head ornament. "Candrasekhara" and "Indusekhara" mean the same. Remarkably enough, "Indusekhara" occurs in the titles of two grammatical works. One is Sabdendusekharam, and the other pariposendusekharam. A student who has read grammar up to Sabdendusekharam is considered master of the s..." current
04:0304:03, 15 April 2025 diff hist +17,052‎ N Talk:Vyakarana:Grammar and Siva ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Siva temples have a mandapa (pavilion or hall) called “vyakaranadanamandapa". In Tamil it has come to be called “vakkanikkum mandapam". There are such halls in many temples in the Chola territory of Tamilnadu. One such is in Tiruvorriyur near Madras. Why should there be a mandapa for grammar in Siva temples? What is Siva's connection with language? Is not Siva in his form of Daksinamurti all silence? ''Nrt..." current
03:5703:57, 15 April 2025 diff hist +1,590‎ N Talk:Vyakarana:Mouth of the Vedapurusa ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Vyakarana or grammar is the "mukha" of the Vedapurusa, his mouth. The Tamil word for grammar is "illakanam". Grammar deals with the "laksanas" of a language. "Laksmana(n)" is "llukkumanan" in Tamil. In the same way, "laksana(m)" becomes "illakanam" in that language. There are a number of works on Sanskrit grammar. The most widely used and important is the one by the great sage Panini. There is a gloss - a vart..." current
03:5403:54, 15 April 2025 diff hist +1,865‎ N Talk:Scripts:Other Notable Aspects of Siksa ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami The general rule is that the sound of the Vedas ought not to be changed, that there should be no tonal alterations. But there are rules permitting slight modifications based on the differences between the recensions - and these rules are according to the Siksa sastra. Slight tonal changes are also allowed. In some hymns of the Rgveda the "a-kara" and "e-kara" are drawn out further than in the other Vedas. In some..." current
03:5303:53, 15 April 2025 diff hist +5,708‎ N Talk:Scripts:Names of Months ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami From our inquiry into the derivation of the Tamil margazhi from Margasirsi, you must have formed an idea of how the genius of one language differs from that of another. You may note this from how the original Sanskrit names of other months have changed in Tamil. Usually, as observed before, the name of a month is derived from the asterism under which the full moon falls in that month. Citra-purnima is a sacred da..." current
03:3003:30, 15 April 2025 diff hist +3,770‎ N Talk:Scripts:Impact of Siksa Sastra ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami In the foregoing we noticed that certain Vedic syllables had a special association with certain regions and that these were absorbed in the languages spoken there. We also learned from this that the Vedas flourished in all countries. There was never a period in Tamil Nadu, the land we know intimately when Vedic dharma was not practised there. The name "Tamizh" itself has the "zha" characteristic of the Talavak..." current
03:2803:28, 15 April 2025 diff hist +18,901‎ N Talk:Scripts:Vedic Vocalisation and the Regional ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Languages If we relate certain characteristics of the different languages of India to how Vedic chanting differs syllabically from region to region, we will discover the important fact that the genius of each of these tongues and the differences between them are based on how the Vedas are chanted in these regions. I make here certain observations based on my own philological researches. The letters da, ra, la..." current
03:0903:09, 15 April 2025 diff hist +2,580‎ N Talk:Scripts:Versions with Slight Differences ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami I have spoken about the importance of maintaining the purity of Vedic syllables. All over India, from the Himalaya to Ramesvaram and throughout the ages, the Vedas have been taught entirely in the oral tradition, without any printed books and without one part of the country being in touch with another. And yet 99 percent of the texts followed everywhere are the same to the letter. So it means there is a differ..." current

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05:0305:03, 11 April 2025 diff hist +1,787‎ N Talk:Scripts:Importance of Enunciation and Intonation ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami You must not go wrong either in the enunciation or intonation of a mantra. If you do, not only will you not gain the expected benefits from it, the result might well be contrary to what is intended. So the mantras must be chanted with the utmost care. There is a story told in the '''''Taittiriya Samhita (2.4.12)''''' - ''Tvasta wanted to take revenge on Indra for some reason and conducted a sacrifice to beget a..." current
04:5904:59, 11 April 2025 diff hist +1,208‎ N Talk:Scripts:Aksamala ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami "Rudraksa" means the eye of Rudra or Siva. "Rudraksa-mala" is a "garland" (rosary) made up of such "eyes". "Aksa" means eye. In Tamil the rudraksa is called "tirukkanmani" [the sacred pupil of the eye] What is the meaning of "aksamala" or "sphatika-aksamala"? Here the word "aksa" is not taken to mean the eye but the letters of the alphabet from "a" to "ksa". In the Sanskrit alphabet "a" comes first and "ksa" co..." current
04:5704:57, 11 April 2025 diff hist +2,681‎ N Talk:Languages and Scripts: Indian and Foreign ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami A special feature of our language is that each syllable of every word is pronounced distinctly. Take the English word "world". The sound of the first syllable has no clear form; it is neither "we" nor "wo". Then the letter "r" is slurred over. There are many such indistinct words in foreign tongues. They come under the category of "avyakta-sabda" (indistinct sounds). In our country all languages are "spasta"(clea..." current
04:5304:53, 11 April 2025 diff hist +3,496‎ N Talk:Siksa:A Language that has all Phonemes ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami From the foregoing it is clear that Sanskrit has the "f" sound. In fact there is no sound vocalised by humans that is not present in that language. "Zha" is not, as is usually imagined, unique to Tamil. It exists in the Vedic language which is the source of Sanskrit. The "da" in the Yajurveda has to be pronounced as "zha" in the corresponding passages in the Samaveda. In the Rgveda also in some places the "da" ha..." current
04:5104:51, 11 April 2025 diff hist +13,059‎ N Talk:Siksa:Scripts ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami The evolution of the script of any language must be based on symbols or signs denoting various "units" of its speech (phonemes). Most European languages, including English, are written in the Roman script. There is a script called Brahmi, and the Asokan edicts are in it. In fact, it is from Brahmi that the scripts of most Indian languages have evolved, and these include not only the Devanagari script in which San..." current

02:5602:56, 8 April 2025 diff hist +2,723‎ N Talk:Siksa:Pronunciation ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Siksa deals with "uccarna", "svara", "matra", "bala", "sama" and "santana". The sound of each mantra is determined with the utmost accuracy. How different sounds have their source in different parts of the body and how they are vocalised, all such details which are of scientific and practical importance are dealt with in this Anga. If it says, "Join your lips in this way and such and such a sound will be produced..." current
02:5302:53, 8 April 2025 diff hist +2,707‎ N Talk:Siksa:Root Language - Sanskrit ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami In speaking about the Vedas I stated that the sound of a word was more important that its meaning. That reminds me. In the Vedic language called "Chandas" and in Sanskrit which is based on it, there are words the very sound of which denotes their meaning. Take the word "danta". You know that it means a tooth. We have to use our teeth to produce the sound of the word "danta" - the tongue has to make an impact on t..." current
02:5102:51, 8 April 2025 diff hist +3,809‎ N Talk:Siksa:Yoga and Speech ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami When you play the harmonium, the nagasvaram or the flute, the sound is produced by the air discharged in various measures through different outlets. Our throat has a similar system to produce sound. It is not that the throat alone is involved in this process. How do we speak and sing? Speaking or singing is an exercise that has its source below the navel in the "muladhara" or "root-base' of the spinal column. Fro..." current
02:4902:49, 8 April 2025 diff hist +2,964‎ N Talk:Siksa: Nose of the Vedapurusa ‎ Created page with "By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami Siksa comes first among the six limbs of the Vedas, the nose of the Vedapurusa. The function of the nose here is not to be taken only as that of perceiving smells. It has also the function of breathing; in fact it is one of the organs of breathing. Siksa serves as the life-breath of the Vedic mantras. Where is the life of a Vedic mantra centred? Each syllable of a hymn is to be enunciated strictly according to..." current

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