Answer to Quiz of the week # 15 and Question # 16

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Dear Bhaagavatas:

 

The correct Answer is Ahalya, Draupati, Tara, Sita, and Mandodari

 

An overwhelming majority of readers have provided the correct Answer as above.

The following have sent the correct Answers almost instantly.

Congratulations to them.

SUNDARARAJA RAMASWAMY (ramas1

Rajagopalan (vsrajagopalan2003) saying that his Grandma used to recite this slOka when applying oil bath to the grand children for girls.

bhavani nirmal (bonnie605)

S.K Kishore (sk_kishore)

Kumar (kumar_nttours) (quotes from SRS Vol 8/23 dated May 6, 2007) Kesaven Thirumalai Numbakkam (tnkesaven)

Ranga Rajan (measurex11)

Padmanabhan Vijayaraghavan (padmanabhan55)

Vyjayanthi & Sundararajan (vijirajans)

Ranga.Kadambi2)

mala srinivasan (malinivasan)

Srinivas Grandhi) (grandhi2000)

vijayaraghavan madabhoosi (m_vijayaraghavan)

BALAJI S V (anbanj83)

asd bte (vale_543)

Jayanthi Muralidharan (jayanthi1115)

dkrishnamurthy murthy (dkrishnamurthym)

viji jagan (vijaya_47)

 

But the following have given a slightly different Answer as shown below

Krishnamoorthi Venkatraman (varagur_vk) substitutes Dhamayanthi for Sita

Harini Shankarjee (varagur.perumal) substitutes Dhamayanthi for Sita

 

Yogeshwar Velu (yogivelu) substitutes Kunti for Sita

Miya Seshadri (mailmiya) substitutes Kunti for Sita

 

sukumar (sukumar) repeats Tara in the place of Sita.

Chitra Bhashyam (chitra_bhashyam) repeats Tara in the place of Sita

Nagaraj G (nagaraj.g) repeats Tara in the place of Sita

Andal Jaganathan (andaljagan) repeats Tara in the place of Sita

 

kannan poondi (poondi_kannan substitutes Kowsalya for Sita

 

 

We give below Question # 16. Please read the question carefully and send your Answer to ramanbil (Not to Sri Ranga Sri) so as to reach us on or before Sunday, the 22nd November 2009. The correct Answer received earliest will be featured in the next week’s posting.

Dasoham

Anbil Ramaswamy

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Most of you would be aware of a Divyadesam that is now being called “Mahaa balipuram”

also known as "Tiruk kaDal mallai"

This Divyadesam has 3 peculiarities. What are these peculiarities?

Hint

1. Relates to Perumaal

2. Relates to Azhwar

3. Relates to the location of the Divyadesam itself.

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