Ekadasi , DhwAdasi Veda PaarAyaNams for Malolan and Dolai KaNNan at SrI Matam : Part I

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Sri:Dear SrI Nrusimha BhakthAs ,SishyAs and AbhimAnis of Ahobila Matam :adiyEn would like to take this opportunity to brief you ona new Veda PaarAyaNa Kaimkaryam on EkaAdsai andDhvAdasi days for Malolan and Dolai Kannan at their AasthAnam in the Silver Mantapam .

 

We would like to avail of the opportunity to

sponsor these Veda PaarAyaNams of the Veda

BhAgams are Acchidram and AswamEdham on EkAdasi days and KaaDakam on Dhvadasi days ;

On Dhvadasi dayes , the Thirumanjanam for all

the 44 PoorvAchArya Paadhukais take place

and Sri Paadha Theertham from these sacred

Paadhukais is distributed there after to the GhOshti

by SrImath Azahgiya Singar Himself .There are 25 Ekadasis from Uthpatthi EkAdasi to Kamala EkAdasi in an year . The significane of these EkAdasis Vrathams , DhwAdasi PaarAyaNamsare covered in a special Ahobilavalli e-book ( 49th e-book) :http://www.ahobilavalli.org

 

THE PLANS ARE FOR A FAMILY TO SPONSOR

ONE OF THE 25 EKADASI-DHVADASI VEDA

PARAAYANAMS BEFORE MALOLA nARASIMHAN

AND DOLAI KANNAN . THE ESTIMATED

SPONSORSHIP FOR ONE OF THE 25 EKADASI-

DHVADASI VEDA PAARAYANAMS OF ACCHIDHRAM ,

ASWAMEDHAM AND KAADAKAM WOULD BE

RUPEES 3,000 OR ~ $ 80 , WHICH CAN BE SENT

ONLINE .

 

ADIYEN WILL BE SPONSORING THIS YEAR'S

VAIKUNTA EKADASI AND THE FOLLOWING

DHVADASI ( DEC 20 , 21 , 2007) .

 

THE 25 AVAILABLE DATES FOR SPONSORSHIPS

ARE :

 

JAN 3 and 4 , 18 and 19

 

FEB 2 and 3 , 16 and 17

 

MARCH 3 and 4 , 17 and 18

 

APRIL 2 and 3 , 15 and 16

 

MAY 1 and 2 , 15 and 16 , 30 and 31

 

JUNE 13 and 14 , 29 and 30

 

JULY 13 and 14 , 28 and 29

AUGUST 12 and 13 , 26 and 27

 

SEPTEMBER 10 and 11 , 25 and 26

 

OCTOBER 10 and 11, 24 and 25

 

NOVEMBER 9 and 10 , 22 and 23

 

DECEMBER 9 and 10 , 22 and 23

 

Please let adiyEn know which of these

EkAdasi-DhvAdasi days , you would like

to sponsor . adiyEn will reserve those dates

for you and your family .

 

V.Sadagopan

 

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The Details of the Veda ViNNappam

*******************************************Let us Focus on the Veda ViNNappam to Malolanand Silver Mantapa Moorthys on EkAdasi and DhwAdasi days in this posting .The Veda BhAgams of KrishNa Yajur Vedam :Samhithais and BrAhmaNams ( The invaluableHelp of Sriman I.V.K. Chary on this topic isgratefully acknowledged ) :The Samhithai*************The first Part of KrishNa Yajur Vedam is TaittirIya Samhithai consisting of many mantrAs.The Samhithai is further divided into 7 KhANDams.Each KhANDam has chapters ( Prasnam) . Each Prasnamis divided further into smaller and biger anuvAkams .A fifty Padham based unit of anuvAkam is knownas PanchAdis ( Pancha dasees).These anuvAkams of Samhithai instruct us on the KarmAs to be performedand the salutations to the Vedic gods linked to those KarmAs . The BrAhmaNams***************The second part of the KrishNa Yajur Vedam is referred to as Taittireeya BrAhmaNam . The BrahmaNam is divided into threeashtakams, Kaadakam and AruNam( AaraNyakam) . There is aview that recognizes Ashtakams alone as BrAhmaNams andidentify Kaadakam and AruNam as seperate entities .The subdivisioninto Prasnam , anuvAkam , PanchAdhis hold good here as well .The Nine PrasNams of the Ashtakams ******************************First Ashtakam : Agni AadhAna Mantrams , injunctions ( Vidhis) ,VaajabhEya Yaaga Mantrams , AgnihOthra PrAyascchittha mantrams ,Raajasooya Yaaga Mnatrams are covered here .Second Ashtakam : AgnihOthra Mantrams , SookthamsThird Ashtakam : Mantrams and Vidhis of DharsapoorNa MaasEshti , NakshathrEshti are housed here .Fourth Ashtakam to Sixth Ashtakam : Additional Mantras and Vidhis Seventh Ashtakam : Acchidhram ( recited on EkAdasi evening after SandhyA Vandhanam ).Eighth and ther Ninth Ashtakams : AswamEdham ( Recited alsoon the EkAdasi Evening after SandhyA Vandhanam) .Kaadakam Recited on DhvAdasi Day************************************************( To Be Continued )