Shring or Shrim-Different pronounciations

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Namaste,

 

Here is a link from the HIndu Dharma pages of Kamakoti

website where Maha periyaval speaks about the diferent

pronounciations in languages and their inter

correlation. This article has removed several doubts I

had regarding the differences between North and the

different southern style of mantra uccharanam.

 

http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part6/chap11.htm

 

Bala Sharanam,

Lalitha.

 

--- "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk wrote:

> , "rkrangan"

> <rkrangan> wrote:

> > Namaste

> >

> > I was recently in Puri and had the opportunity to

> interact with

> some

> > learned scholars regarding some mantras.

> >

> > True. They chant AIM as AING, HREEM as HREENG,

> KLEEM as

> KLEENG..etc.

> > Infact, a senior priest who accompanied me to Sri

> Jagannatha

> temple

> > chanted "OM NAMO BHAGAWATHE BASUDEVAAYO". For a

> moment, I stood

> > shocked and almost forgot the correct version. :-)

> When I

> chanted "Om

> > Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaaya", as how I have been

> taught in our

> South

> > Indian style, he objected to it and said it is the

> other way

> around,

> > though I could not chant in his style.

>

> Namaste

>

> "OM NAMO BHAGAWATHE BASUDEVAAYO".

> and

> "Om namo bhagavate vaasudevaaya"

>

> are both the same except for the well-known

> difference in the way

> they pronounce the vowel 'a' (the first letter of

> the Sanskrit

> alphabet) in the Eastern parts of India, like

> Orissa, Bengal and

> Assam. The 'a' is pronounced and heard as an 'o' by

> the people from

> other parts of India. That is why Ravinder becomes

> Robinder and

> Ramaa (=Lakshmi) becomes Romaa. Hence the last 'a'

> in Vaasudevaaya

> becomes 'O'.

> Also even in Sanskrit there is a rule

> 'va-ba-yorebhedaH'. This

> privilege of interchanging 'va' and 'ba' is used

> heavily by the

> Eastern part of India and that is why Vasudeva

> becomes Basudeva.

>

> If I may be pardoned for a joke on myself which

> taught me

> this 'vabayor-abedaH' in a dramatically funny way,

> let me tell you

> the incident in 1953 which taught me this in Howrah

> Railway Station.

> I had gone to make Railway reservation back to

> Madras from Calcutta,

> (In those days Chennai was Madras and Kolkatta was

> Calcutta). At the

> reservation counter I had to give information about

> my name, and so

> I had to spell out verbally my name "V.

> Krishnamurthy", letter by

> letter. The very first letter caused a problem. I

> kept on saying "V"

> and the clerk on the other side of the counter kept

> on saying "B"

> and asking me for approval. I repeated "V" several

> times but every

> time the response came only as 'B". I was almost

> frustrated and so I

> started spelling out the English alphabet: "A, B, C,

> D, E,

> F, ........, S, T, U, V" and I stopped at " V" and

> repeated it to

> emphasize it. Now he understood it with a great nod

> and said "Oh, it

> is that 'B'! and wrote "V" on the form. I heaved a

> sigh of

> relief. "Va-bayor-abedaH" !

>

> PraNAms to all devotees of Mother Goddess

> profvk

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

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