The Status Report on the AZHWARS and the 108 CD ROM PROJECT

[Guest guest]

Dear BhakthAs:

 

I would like to brief you on the latest developments

relatd to the two kaimkaryams:

 

Date of Start and expected Completion

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With our Lord's grace ,this project will be

initiated on Sri Raama Navami day ( April 12, 2000)

at Bangalore , SriperumbhUthUr and here . It will

take us three to six months to finish this project

and get CD ROM copies available for the AasthikAs.

The thridhaNdam kaimkaryam will be completed in

a months' time and the CD ROM development will

take a little longer.

 

We have two more days left to complete the fund

raising efforts , if at all possible .

 

The number of Pledges and the amounts

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We have now 33 pledges to the tune of $3,500

against the need of $5,500 . Among the pledges ,

$561 have been received directly by me sofar. $825 is

being sent directly to India for use against

the developmental expenses there .

 

Thus we have or will be receving $1,386

funds out of the $3,500 pledged so far . May I request

all the aasthikAs , who have pledged the remaining

$ 2114 to send the checks either to myself or to Dr.M.A.Alwar

at our addresses listed below at your earliest convenience ?

 

The Current Gap in Funds

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We still need $2,000 for the Thridhandam Kaimkaryam

and the AzhwArs/108 Dhivya dEsam projects . It is my

fondest hope that 20 BhakthAs will come forward and

help out with their pledges prior to Sri Raama Navami

celebrations on Wednesday , April 12 .Please

contribute whatever you can.Some of you have pledged

51, 100, 108 , 200 and 250 dollars .

 

Current Sponsors(33)

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Sofar the following BhakthAs are participating in

these two kaimkaryams .Those who have already

sent their checks have a star sign after

their names :

 

1.Achutharaman,R (Singapore)*

2.Bose, Aravind ( Saudi Arabia )*

3.Balaji, C.G (Bangalore,India)*

4.Belur, Sheela ( MD, USA)*

5.Balaram, Sanjay ( Chennai, India)*

6.Bhashyam Nallappa ( MD, USA)

7.Jaganath, Suresh( NJ, USA)

8.Karamchedu, Rajeev

9.Krishna, Aravind( IL, USA)

10.Krishnamachari, Kalyani ( IL, USA)

11.Krishnamachari, Kanthadai (Bahrain)*

12.Madhavan, Chithra

13.Madhavakkannan ( Singapore)*

14.Mohan Sagar ( CO, USA)

15.Narasimhan, Srivatsan (OH,USA)

16.Narasimhachari, Nedathur (VA,USA)*

18.Narayanan, Vasudha ( FL,USA)

19.Narayanan, K.M (Mumbay, India)

20.Raghavan, Jayanthi

21.Raghu Raghunath ( MD, USA)

22.Raghunath, Viji(CA, USA)

23.Ramaswami, Geetha (Singapore)*

24.Ramesh, Chatari(CO, USA)*

25.Ranganathan, Sriram (NC, USA)

26.Rangaswamy , MuraLi ( MA, USA)

27.Sadagopan, V (NY, USA)*

28.Saaranga Kadambi (MA, USA)

29.Sridharan, R (Singapore)*

30.Srinivasan, K (CO, USA)

31.Varadarajan, Gopinath

32.Varadarajan , Kasturi (IO, USA)

33.Venkat Nagarajan ( Canada)

 

Links of sponsors to respective AzhwArs

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I had indicated that the individual particpation of

sponsors would be very appropriate to recognize for

their contrbutions in the sponsor section of

the CD ROM .In this context , I had suggested

that they can choose their favorite dhivya desam ,

favorite AzhwArs and their paasurams .Seven of you have

advised me about your choices :There are 12 AzhwArs and 25

prabhandhams. Those AzhwArs and Prabhandhams spoken for

are indicated against their names with a star:

 

Azhwars :

 

1. Poygai AzhwAr

2. BhUthatthAzhwAr

3. pEy AzhwAr

4. Thirumazhisai AzhwAr

5. NammAzhwAr (*)

6. Madhura Kavi AzhwAr)*)

7. KulasEkara AzhwAr(*)

8. PeriyAzhwAr

9. ANDAL (*)

10.Thindaradipodi AzhwAr

11.ThiruppANAzhwAr

12.Thirumangai AzhwAr (*)

 

SEVEN AZHWAARS need links to sponsors .

Please let me know of your choices for links to

individual AzwArs.

 

Links of Sponsors to the 25 Prabhandhams of 12 AzhwArs

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The 25 dhivya Prabhandhams constituting

the 4,000 verses and the individual

prabhandhams selected are indicated below with (*):

 

A. Mudalaayiram ( First Thousand)

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1. ThiruppallANDu

2. PeriyAzhAr Thirumozhi

3. ThiruppAvai (*)

4. NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi(*)

5. PerumAL Thirumozhi(*)

6. Thirucchantha Viruttham

7. ThirumAlai

8. ThiruppaLLIyezucchi

9. AmalanAdhipirAn

10.KaNNinuNN SiRutthAmpu

 

B.Second Thousand

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11.Periya Thirumozhi (*)

12.ThirukkurunthANDakam

13.ThirunedumthANDakam

 

C.Third Thousand (iyaRppA)

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14.First ThiruvanthAdhi

15.Second ThiruvanthAdhi

16.Third ThiruvanthAdhi

17.Naanmukan ThiruvanthAdhi

18.Thiruviruttham

19.ThiruvAsiriyam

20.Periya ThiruvanthAdhi

21.ThiruvEzhukURRirukkai

22.SiRiya Thirumadal

23.Periya Thirumadal

24.Raamnusa NooRRanthAdhi

 

D. The Fourth Thousand

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25.ThiruvAimozhi (*)

 

An Appeal prior to Sri Raama Navami

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Only 5 out of the 25 Prabhnadhams have been

spoken for so far. It would be ideal to have the

remaining 7 AzhwArs AzhwArs and 20 Prabhandhams

covered .Please indicate your choices for inclusion

in the sponsor section.If you prefer, I will be

happy to provide the links, since in the final

anaysis, we wish to have every one of the AzhwArs and

their Prabhandhams linked to the current and

future sponsors.

 

Looking forward to your support

to race against time to complete

the fund raising effort by Sri Raama Navami

as your samarpaNams to Sri Jaanaki

SamEtha Sri Raamachandra para Brahmam ,

 

NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa

AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam,

AdiyEn, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan

 

Our addresses for mailing checks :

 

V.Sadagopan , Apt 6B-1

Scarborough Manor

Scarborough , NY 10510

 

M.A. Alwar (*)

142 College Road (Upstairs)

KR Mohalla

Mysore 570024

Karanataka , India

(*) The checks are to be addressed

"M.A.Godha".