Sravana dwadasi

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Dear devotees,

 

namo narayana. adiyen's pranamams

 

adiyen would like to know whether March 3rd is a sravana dwadasi day.

Recent Nrusimha priya did not say so but on this day is happened to be

sravanam and also dwadasi.

 

Learned members can clarify.

 

adiyen also want to know the background of observing upavasam on sravana

dwadasi. Does this applicable only to srivaishnavas? How about madhvas

and gaudiya vaishnavas? Whether smartas observe sravana dwadasi?

 

adiyen will appreciate input of learned members.

 

Azhagiya singer thiruvadigale saranam.

 

adiyen dasan,

 

venkataraghava dasan.

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Totadri Iyengar's birth centenary

 

 

CHENNAI, FEB. 25. The birth centenary of T. Totadri Iyengar will be

celebrated on December 1, 2000 at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore,

Chennai. Totadri Iyengar was the Professor and Head of the Department of

Mathematics, St. Joseph's College, Trichy from 1921-1953. Later, he was the

Principal of Madura College, Madurai till 1963. He then came to Chennai and

was the Principal of the D.G. Vaishnav College until 1966.

 

As a tribute to this great educationist, his family has created the

Adhyapakarathana T. Totadri Iyengar Educational Trust, whose objectives are:

to create an endowment fund to grant a scholarship to a student for further

research in pure Maths and to honour a senior mathematician every year; to

sponsor a student for Vedic studies annually ; to open an educational

institute in his memory, where stress will be laid on the overall

development of the student; to collect articles, photos etc.., from students

and acquaintances of Totadri Iyengar and to compile and release the same in

the form of a book.

 

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Senior Scientific Adviser to the Government of

India, will be the chief guest and deliver the first keynote address. The

trust can be reached at totadritrust and it hopes to launch a

website within the next two months. Interested people may also write for

details to 7, Kamaraj Salai, R.A. Puram, Chennai-28.

 

 

 

 

 

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SrI:

SrI Lakshminrusimha ParabrahmaNE Namaha

SrI Lakshminrusimha divya pAdukA sEvaka SrIvaN-

SatakOpa SrI nArAyaNa Yateendra mahAdESIkAya namaha

 

Dear SrI Venkataraghavan,

namO nArAyaNA.

 

You wrote :

 

> adiyen would like to know whether March 3rd is a sravana dwadasi day.

> Recent Nrusimha priya did not say so but on this day is happened to be

> sravanam and also dwadasi.

 

For the sishyAs of SrI Ahobila Mutt ie. sannidhi sishyAs,

it is not a " Sravana DwAdasi " vrattam on March 3rd.

So, they have to perform the dwAdasi pAranam as usual.

However, Munitraya sampradAyam sishyAs have to observe

upavAsam on March 3rd, since according to their

calculations, it happens to be a day of " Sravana DwAdasi "

vrattam.

 

SrImad Azhagiyasingar has discussed about Sravana

DwAdasi in his aahnika commentry. It contains some

detailed analysis reg. the importance of Sravana DwAdasi

Vrattam, pramAnam for that vrattam, determination of

the day of observance etc, based on various pramAnams.

 

 

> adiyen also want to know the background of observing upavasam on sravana

> dwadasi. Does this applicable only to srivaishnavas? How about madhvas

> and gaudiya vaishnavas? Whether smartas observe sravana dwadasi?

 

Since this vrattam is stipulated in Smrutis, it

has be observed by anyone accepting it. MAdhvAs

do observe it and so also some of the smArtAs.

This information was given by a vidvAn here

at chennai.

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

ananthapadmanAbha dAsan,

krishNArpaNam.