Samkshepa Dharma Sastras- An english translation

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Dear Friends,

More than a year back a great scholar and correspondent Sri.P P.Ramachandran

, a member of the on Pattars , brought to our notice the need for

translating a book called " Samkshepa Dharma Sathram " published by the order of

the late Paramacharya of Kanchi and published by Heritage educational trust,

Mylapore ,Madras in Tamil. I volunteered to do the job. It took me more than

three months to get the book from Madras. This book deals with the rules to be

followed by a Brahmin in different aspects of his life. It is a summary of the

great book Vaidyanatha Deekshitheyam. It has seven chapters viz

 

1.The duties of different Varnas

2.The day to day duties of a Brahmin

3. The rules of taint caused by death and birth

4. The rules governing after death ceremonies

5.The rules of redemptive rituals to wash sins

6. A summary of the important rules.

 

The original book clearly mentioned that there was to be no copy right

restrictions because this knowledge has to reach all Brahmins. Being a small cog

in the wheel of time, I am very happy that I was given a chance to contribute a

little towards this aim.

 

The full translation is available in

http://stotraratna.awardspace.com/sruthi.html

Under day to day duties of Brahmins. Since some people who have disabled Java

Script found it difficult to access this site, I have also uploaded it in my

blog

http://stotrarathna.blogspot.com/

With best wishes

Ramachander

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advaitin , " ramya475 " <ramya475 wrote:

>

> Dear Friends,

> More than a year back a great scholar and correspondent Sri.P

P.Ramachandran , a member of the on Pattars , brought to our notice

the need for translating a book called " Samkshepa Dharma Sathram " published by

the order of the late Paramacharya of Kanchi and published by Heritage

educational trust, Mylapore ,Madras in Tamil. I volunteered to do the job. It

took me more than three months to get the book from Madras. This book deals with

the rules to be followed by a Brahmin in different aspects of his life. It is a

summary of the great book Vaidyanatha Deekshitheyam.

 

Namaste Ramachander-ji,

 

Thank you very much for this work. For those who would like to

delve more deeply into the original, the following resources are online:

 

Sri Vaidyanatha Deekshitiya Smrti Muktaphalam

 

http://vaidyanatha.ambaa.org/

 

varNaashrama dharma kaaNDa (45 MB) [2]

aahnika kaaNDa (43 MB) [1]

aashoucha kaaNDa (15 MB) [2]

shraaddha kaaNDa (58 MB) [2]

aashoucha + praayashchitta kaaNDa (40 MB) [2]

 

Files are all in devanaagari script only. Please keep this in mind before

downloading. If you are interested in transliterating this document into ITRANS,

please let ravi at ambaa dot org know.

 

Source References

 

1) Ajit Krishnan - www.mudgala.com

http://vaidyanatha.ambaa.org/Ajit/

 

2) DLI India - www.new.dli.ernet.in

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder