Guest guest Posted July 26, 2002 Report Share Posted July 26, 2002 Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha Respected Learned Members, I have a doubt. Although we write bra-h-ma we pronounce it as bram-ha. Is this correct or should it be pronounced as bra-h-ma itself? Could anyone kindly clarify? Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan, Lakshmi Narasimhan _______________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2002 Report Share Posted July 27, 2002 Hari Om. It is to be pronounced as Brahma only. The other pronounication is popular but is a corruption of language. Swamy SV At 14:00 26/07/02 +0530, Lakshmi Narasimhan wrote: >Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha >Respected Learned Members, >I have a doubt. Although we write bra-h-ma we pronounce it as bram-ha. Is >this correct or should it be pronounced as bra-h-ma itself? Could anyone >kindly clarify? >Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan, >Lakshmi Narasimhan > >_______________ >Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > >----------------------------- > - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - >To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list >Group Home: bhakti-list >Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ > > >Your use of is subject to > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2002 Report Share Posted July 27, 2002 I had raised this question in the list a couple of years back, probably more than once, and do not recall getting responses. This has been a question that has occupied my thought for quite some time. I am aware of three supports so far, even though I do not have the supports handy to include them in this mail. One is by SrI aNNa'ngarAcArya svAmi, where he argues for brahmA. The other is "daivattin kuRal", where kA'nci maThAdhipati SrI Sankaracharya that preceded the current maThAdhipati, supports "brahmA". I am told there is a book that has been published after extensive research by one of the Indian Universities (may be Allahabad University), where they conclude that bramhA is the correct pronunciation. I have talked to a samskRt scholar who lived in Toronto a few years back, and he supported bramhA as well. I used to have the article by aNNa'ngarAcArya svAmi in my possession, but am unable to locate the copy right now. I have the copy of "daivattin kuRal", and can dig out the reference. I do not have access to the research publication by the Indian University, but a learned scholar from India who is visiting the U.S. now informed me that he has seen the book, and I am trying to get a copy of the book. I would like to request that when responses are provided for this, if possible the person responding may kindly include the support on which they base their response. -dAsan kRshNamAcAryan bhakti-list, "Lakshmi Narasimhan Venkatapathy" <nrusimhan@h...> wrote: > Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha > Respected Learned Members, > I have a doubt. Although we write bra-h-ma we pronounce it as bram- ha. Is > this correct or should it be pronounced as bra-h-ma itself? Could anyone > kindly clarify? > Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan, > Lakshmi Narasimhan > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 28, 2002 Report Share Posted July 28, 2002 Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha, In the samskrta words Brahma, Ahna (day) and Vahni (fire), are written with h first, but the pronunciation of h is flipped. So Brahma is pronounced bram-ha Vahni as Vanhi and Ahna as an-ha. This is in keeping with the rules of Samskrta grammar. Ahna is used in the popular compound word Madhyahne, which means "at midday" and is pronounced Madhyan-he. The root word for Brahma is Brhaman. When the word is used as the first part of a compound the "n" drops off, hence we get "Brahma-sabdam". Other example of "n" ending words are Atman(soul), naman(name) etc. And we get "Atma-jnana", "Hari-nama-sankirtana" etc. Also there is a masculine gender Brahman and neuter gender Brahman. The masculine one is called brahmaa, and refers to the creator. The neuter is brahma and refers to the supreme being. Brahma also means Vedas in many places. Hope this clarifies. thanks, rohit --- Lakshmi Narasimhan Venkatapathy <nrusimhan wrote: > Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha > Respected Learned Members, > I have a doubt. Although we write bra-h-ma we > pronounce it as bram-ha. Is > this correct or should it be pronounced as bra-h-ma > itself? Could anyone > kindly clarify? > Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan, > Lakshmi Narasimhan > > _______________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: > http://mobile.msn.com > > > > ----------------------------- > - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - > To Post a message, send it to: > bhakti-list > Group Home: > bhakti-list > Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ > > > Your use of is subject to > > > Health - Feel better, live better http://health. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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