Answer to Question # 17 and Quiz # 18

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From the perfect score for the “All-Correct answers” received from almost everyone and that too instantaneously, we are led to doubt whether the difficulty level of the questions is at the lowest or whether the insight level of readers is at the highest!

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The question # 17 was:

“Sometime ago, we had a quiz on 5 “Pativratas”. There is a famous sloka saying that daily remembering the 8 Chiram-jeevis, we can expect to live the full “Veda praayam” of 100 years in perfect health. (JeevEma sarata: Satham) without any ailment.After enumerating their names, the last line of the SlOkam reads as follows: "jeevET varsha satham sarva vyaadhi vivarjita:// " Who are these 8 Chiram-jeevis? Just mention their names. No further explanations are expected. Please make sure that you do not miss out anyone or more. ================================================================================

The correct Answers are:

Aswattaama / Bali / Vyaasa / Hanumaan / VibheeshaNa :/ Kripa / Parasurama and maarkaNDEya.

 

The “Nitya Aachaara Paddhati” has these verses:

Aswattaama Balir VyaasO Hanumaans Cha VibheeshaNa:/

Kripa Parasuramas cha Sapta EtE Chira jeevina://

Sapta Etaan smarEt nityam maarkaNDEyam atha AshTamam/

jeevET varsha satham saagram sarva vyaadhi vivarjita://

 

Quoted in Footnote # 595 on Page259 (Chapter 6) of History of Dharma Sastra by

Kane, Pandurang Vaman published by Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

=========================================================================================The following have given the “All- Correct” Answers almost instantly.

Harini Shankarjee (varagur.perumal)

Krishna Madhavan (srirangadesikadasan)

Usha S (usha)

Jayanthi Muralidharan (jayanthi1115)

Rangarajan N (rangarajan_revathi)

Srinivasan (srinivas_sgm)

asd bte (vale_543)

Kumar Ramabhadran (kumar_nttours)

viji jagan (vijaya_47)

S.K Kishore (sk_kishore)

jayvarada (jayvarada)

Balagopalakrishna C (cbalagopalakrish)

Kesaven Thirumalai Numbakkam (tnkesaven)

 

Congratulations to them.

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The following have given some other names (given in bold letters) instead of the correct ones.

Anand Sowmithiran (anand.sow)

Anjaneyar, Garudan, Naradar Dhruvan, Jaambhavan, Mahabali, Markandeya, Adisheshan

 

mala srinivasan (malinivasan 1Ashwathama, 2 King Bali, 3. Ved Vyasa, 4. Hanuman, 5. Vibhishana 6.Krupacharya 7. Lord Parasurama, 8 marakandeya or jambavan (Not sure!)

 

Krishnamoorthi Venkatraman (varagur_vk)

Hanuman, vibhishanan, mahabali, naradha, aswathama, markenteya, parasurama,and nithya surigal

 

Chitra Bhashyam (chitra_bhashyam)

Ashvathama, Bali, Vyasa, Hanuman, Vibhishana, Krupa, Parashurama, Vashishta.

 

 

Better luck next time for them.

We give below Question # 18. Please read the question carefully and send your Answer to ramanbil

(Not Srirangasri group) so as to reach us on or before 6th December 2009.

Those giving the “All-Correct” answers EARLIEST will be featured in the next week Quiz.

Dasoham

Anbil Ramaswamy

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Quiz of the week # 18

We know that deities in the Hindu pantheon have their own mounts (Vaahanas). The following deities have peculiar Vaahanas.

Each of these deities also has one or more alternate names.

1. One uses a mongoose or a horse or a man as Vaahana.

2. One rides on air (literally, Airborne!)

(a) Who are these deities?

 

(b) Mention at least one of their alternate names for each of them?