Bhaskararaya ashram in mahboobnagar

February 1, 2009

Dear Ambal Brother

During your writeup here you mentioned of

Bhaskarrarayas ashram in narayanapet mahboobnagar, do you by any

chance have the address of it, as i wish to go to that place, and

also you mentioned of Sri Karra Agnihotra Avadhari of adooru, how are

you related to him as we hail from a village next to his and he was

guru to quite a few people in our family. I come from Ganti family of

Pasarlapudi

Sri Kamakshi

, venkata sriram

<sriram_sapthasathi wrote:

>

> Dear Srinivas,

>

> Namaste.

>

> Apart from Bhaskara and Upanishad Brahma, Shri Appayya Dikshitar

had written a commentary on Bhavanopanishad. I have a copy of it. I

can give it to you.

>

> As regards my criticism, who am I to point out Bhaskararaya. To

judge a person, either one should be on par with him or one should be

greater than him. So, criticism is ruled out. I have just placed

certain facts. People may or may not accept it, it is upto them. If

hot spicy biryani and delicious rice porridge with saffron powder and

cow ghee is served before a person, one would select either of the

dish depending upon his nature (gunas). A tamasika person would go

for biryani and sattvika person would go for rice porridge. Same is

the case with mantra sastra and devatas. Pro-vedic is sattvika and

anti-vedic is tamogunaatmaka.

>

February 2, 2009

Dear sir,

There is nothing like temple construction in Narayanpet. There is

an old dilapidated siva linga in a house converted temple known by

name " bhaskarji " temple which is situated in the dusty colony (as

usual uncared like many other architechtural monuments). There is a

family which conduct annual aradhana to this siva temple. This is

the samadhi of upasaka in the lineage of Shri Bhasakaraya. A samputa

of siva panchayatana and a small rasa (mercury) sriyantra is being

worshipped by a family over there.

My gurunatha worshipped this sriyantra and panchayatana for 3 days

here in Narayanpet. For some unknown reasons, the commentary on

Saubhagya bhaskara (abridged version) was written incomplete. After

a short trip to this place, my gurunatha resumed the commentary and

could complete it.

It is interesting to note that Shri Bhaskara hailed from Hyderabad

whose real name was Shri Bhaskar Rao (as it was named by south

indians and maharashtrians). The sanskritised name has become

Bhaskar rayah (rao has become rayah in sanskrit). Apart from strong

and sound knowledge in Sanskrit, Marati, Shri Bhaskara knew the

persian, urdu language and also arabic script.

BTW, Shri Karra Agnihotra Avadhani (as he is usually called Karra

Aganna garu) taught sanskrit and pancha kavyas to my grandfather at

Mungandda agraharam of Amalapuram. Also, a srividya guru to my

aunt's grandfather (Shri Nookala Satyanarayana Srouthi). Shri

Aganna garu was felicitated by Shri Bala Gangadhara Tilak for his

profound knowledge in Srividya and Mantra Shastra. Also, a close

friend of my gurunatha. Shri Agannagaru's original manuscripts on

Chidgagana Chandrika are with my gurunatha. This is a wonderful

gloss on the commentary of Chidgagana Chandrika by name " Chakora

Vyakhya " . This name is also wonderfully stuck because the bird

chakora fully assimiliates the essence of moonlight (gagana

chandrika).

My mother saw shri aganna garu when he visited our own house in

Kakinada. His only dress was a piece of loin cloth (kaupina) and

always carries a tiger skin, kamandala alongwith him. Adorned with

Bhasma, Kumkuma & Rudraksha mala, looked like Abhinava Durvasa in EG

Godavari district.

Shri Agannagaru's gurunatha's samadhi is in Moti Galli at Sultan

Bazar, Koti, Hyderabad whose name is Shri Satchidananda Ghanendra

Saraswati who roamed like lion in the forest of srividya. Head of

Chintamani Mutt. As usual, this is also left uncared in a small

dilapidated rama temple.

Hope these details are enough. BTW, we are also " konaseema

dravidas " .

with regards,

sriram

, " rganti9 " <rganti9 wrote:

>

> Dear Ambal Brother

> During your writeup here you mentioned of

> Bhaskarrarayas ashram in narayanapet mahboobnagar, do you by any

> chance have the address of it, as i wish to go to that place, and

> also you mentioned of Sri Karra Agnihotra Avadhari of adooru, how

are

> you related to him as we hail from a village next to his and he was

> guru to quite a few people in our family. I come from Ganti family

of

> Pasarlapudi

>

> Sri Kamakshi

>

> , venkata sriram

> <sriram_sapthasathi@> wrote:

> >

> > Dear Srinivas,

> >

> > Namaste.

> >

> > Apart from Bhaskara and Upanishad Brahma, Shri Appayya

Dikshitar

> had written a commentary on Bhavanopanishad. I have a copy of it.

I

> can give it to you.

> >

> > As regards my criticism, who am I to point out Bhaskararaya. To

> judge a person, either one should be on par with him or one should

be

> greater than him. So, criticism is ruled out. I have just placed

> certain facts. People may or may not accept it, it is upto them.

If

> hot spicy biryani and delicious rice porridge with saffron powder

and

> cow ghee is served before a person, one would select either of the

> dish depending upon his nature (gunas). A tamasika person would go

> for biryani and sattvika person would go for rice porridge. Same

is

> the case with mantra sastra and devatas. Pro-vedic is sattvika and

> anti-vedic is tamogunaatmaka.

> >

>

February 2, 2009

Namaste

Thanks a ton for the information, am extremely happy to know that

you are related to Srowthi garu, who happens to be viyankudu of my grandfather,

my aunt was given to Srowthigarus son. I have a request to make do you by

anychance have the vedic mantras to be said during offering of upacharas like

DURVASI DHUVADUVANTAM for dhoopam etc , if yes can you please pass them across

or can you let me know which book i can find it in

Sri Kamakshi

--- On Mon, 2/2/09, sriram <sriram_sapthasathi wrote:

February 2, 2009

shrI gurubhyo namaH

shrI mAtre namaH

dear sriram:

When you talk about Bhaskararaya, are you talking about THE Shri Bhaskara

makhin ?

There may be some factual differences between your statement of his origins

and my understanding, per our ashram history.

Please advise.

shrI mahAgaNapataye namaH

_____

On Behalf Of

sriram

Monday, February 02, 2009 4:39 AM

Re: Bhaskararaya ashram in mahboobnagar