FWD REQUEST: Wanted: Volunteers for an extraordinary project

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--- ganapathy = = vijaya <srividya101 wrote:

> Swami <swami wrote:"Swami" <swami

> Wanted: Volunteers for an extraordinary project

> Mon, 9 May 2005 09:30:56 +0400

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> Wanted: Volunteers for an extraordinary project

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> February 13, 2006. It is a date that every devotee of Sri. Kanchi

> Kamakoti Peetam must look forward to. It marks the beginning of 100

> years of the Mahaswami’s Sanyasa Sweekaranam and ascension to

> pontifical seat of the revered Sri. Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam. A rarity

> in the 2500-year history of the Kanchi Mutt.

>

> To commemorate this rare event several activities are being planned

> by devotees across the world. The project that crowns everything else

> is the ‘Voice of God’ project launched in Mumbai yesterday with the

> blessings of the Acharyas.

>

> The Voice of God Project is an ambitious project seeking to translate

> all the seven volumes of ‘Deivathin Kural’ in to English and several

> Indian languages like Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese,

> Oriya, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Each volume of Deivathin Kural

> is over a 1000 pages long.

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> The deadline for getting printed copies ready is January 14, 2006. To

> meet this deadline our translations must be ready by October 15,

> 2005. Our immediate attempt is to translate the works into English,

> which could be used as a base for other languages.

>

> We need a team of translators who can translate Tamil to English and

> subsequently from English to the other languages mentioned above.

>

> If you are keen to participate in this ‘mahayagnya’ through your

> translation work, please write immediately to R. Sridhar, Mumbai at

> vijisri .Clearly mention Voice of God project in your

> subject line.

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> This requires several hours of dedicated work, every day. If you have

> the time, the inclination, the ability and a computer at your

> disposal, please get in touch immediately. (You could be located

> anywhere in the world)

>

> We are also looking for volunteers in Mumbai/Chennai to be part of

> the project team to handle several other aspects like editing, proof

> reading, co-ordination, monitoring, liaising with printers etc. If

> you have experience in handling such work, please write

> to R. Sridhar, Mumbai at vijisri clearly mention Voice of

> God Project in the subject line.

>

> PS: Even if you are unable to participate in this directly, you could

> help by giving us the names of people who can. Feel free to write us

> the names of other language translators & editors who could help.

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> Ganapathy --- Vijaya

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> " Jai Bhavani "

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