Digest Number 1080

July 10, 2007

dear sadagopan swamy, adiyen rangarajan ananthakodi namaskaram. your report of the brhamosthsavam for lord ranganatha gave areview of what has happened and broght before our eyes the actual br utsavam. your clear description of the ragas of course you have foreget to spell the actual keerthanai. thanks for your workand wish you and your friends all the success adiyen rangarajan from austin, texas wrote: International Ramanuja Society Messages In This Digest (1 Message) 1. Sri Ranganatha BrahmOthsavam Concluded Yesterday . Dr. Sadagopan View All Topics | Create New Topic Message 1. Sri Ranganatha BrahmOthsavam Concluded Yesterday . Posted by: "Dr. Sadagopan" yennappan sadagopan10510 Mon Jul 9, 2007 8:30 pm (PST) SrI:Dear BhakthAs :adiyEn attended yesterday an event filled concluding day of the First BrahmOthsavam for Lord Ranganatha atthe Pomona , NY Temple . It is a Memorable day by every measure of excellence and authenticity .Many days and nights of intensive preparatory workby the Religious Committee , the Board Members and Shrama DhAnam by many , many volunteers over untold hours rewarded the BhakthAs of Sri RanganAtha , who had assembled from near and far . adiyEn will share with You all a small portionof adiyEn's blissful anubhavam .MangaLa Vaadhyam*************************The sound of Naadhaswaram ( MangaLa Vaadhyam) Music

accompanied all the important functions during the different stages of the day . These Naadhswara and Tavil VidhvAns are from the rich Cauvery delta in TanjAvur district known for its great families of Naathaswara VidhvAns , who took part over the yearsat many BrahmOthsavams of one or more of the 40dhivya dEsams of ChOLa Naadu . Besides their ownvast repertory of Krithis of Saint ThyagarAja , they responded with lightning speed to the commands from the PradhAna Archakar Swamy to fit with the instructionsof Ghana Raagams as well as apoorva Janya Raagams ( Kannada GouLai,Raama Priya , MukhAri , DevaghAndhAri , KalyANa Vasantham , GambheerA Nattai , Mallari and many more ) . This Naadhaswaram group took part in all the six days of the Uthsavam , stayed up late and enchanted the throngs of devotees with NeelAmburi for SayanOthsavam and PunnAgavarALi (Magudi) during the different gathis that Lord Ranganatha

is famous for during His PuRappAdu( Processions inside and outside His saptha PrAkArams ) . adiyEn will write more later about the dance ITEMS and musical accompaniments during the Navasandhi Nruthyam , Nava Sandhi Kautthuvam , the varieties of 35 TaaLams (7 X 5) used and thier 140 other derivatives as well as the additional rare Taalams ( Megha Nandhana Taalam for VaruNan etc ) used according to the Sri Prasna Samhithai of Pancha RaathraAagamam later . Other Naadha NaivEdhyams & PrasAdhams****************************************************The VeNu GhAnam by Smt.Bhavani Rao and Vocal concerts added to the Naadha NaivEdhyams for the Lord and competed for attention from the MadapaLLi Kaimkaryam Swamy , SrimanMuraLi KrishNan , who created so many authentic PrasAdhams for the Lord (aRum chuvai Virundhu) . NruthyAnjali*****************NrutthAnjalis particularly on

the final day of BrahmOthsavam during the SapthAvaraNam stage of the Uthsavam are fresh inadiyEn's memory . One of the seven AavaraNams is Nruthyam and the others are Geetham , VeNu etc and the finalAavaraNam is MOUNAM (Stunning silence associated with deep meditation , where one hears only AnAhatha PraNava Naadham) .Jathisvaram*****************Before the SapthAvaraNam , NruthyAnjali by youngand talented dancers were offered . Jathiswaram (rhythmic beats and MudhrAs joined the Jathis to SwarAs /Musical notes); this dance item is devoid of any abhinayam and was offered to the Lord by Kumari Pramoda Bapatla .Jathiswaram is also known as Sollukkattu . Sri ShyAmaa SaasthrigaL and Tanjore Quartet have composed many of these Sollukkattus and Svarajathis ( Saahithyam added to Jathisvaram) .Shabdham ( RaamAyaNam)******************************** The classical Shabdam (

another core item of Bhatatha Naatyamtradition) was presented to the Lord at His arangam by Kumari Saroja Kolluru . Sabdham belongs to the other items ofBharata Naatyam like ThOdaya MangaLam ( Ranga Poojai) ,Jathisvaram , VarNam , Padham , JaavaLi and TillAna . Jathisvaram and Sabdham follow one another . Sabdham is the First item in the hierarchy of Bharatha Naatyam Uruppadis ,where Abhinayam is introduced after pure Nrutthams ( Purefoot works and Hastha Mudhrais ) . The shabdam chosen was RaamAyaNa Sabdham . Uthsavar Ranganathar is known asRaamachandran , where as Moolvar is DhAmOdhara KrishNan with His three welt marks for Navaneetha chOram , a presentfrom His " Mother " , YasOdhA .The episodes of Raama as the Portector of the Yaj~nams of the Sages ( Yaj~na Rakshakan) ,SitA KalyAnam , chasing of the Maayaa Mrugham and RaavaNa SamhAram were beautifully brought before our eyes by the talented dancer

..Abhinayam*************Sri Anvesh Tanuku danced two more delightful items : (1) Lord RanganaathA'sdhivya soundharyam in DharbhAr with Sri RanganAyaki ( Kolu-VaithivaRangasaayee ). There was significant opportunity for him to displayhis skills in abhinayam and Nruthyam . It was a Saathvika abhinayampiece filled with BhAvam and Rasam . The second item by Sri Avinesh Tanuku dealt with the DasAvathAram bringing to mind the DasAvathAra Sannidhi at Srirangam built by Thirumangai AzhwAr and Sri DasAvathAraSthOthram by Swamy Desikan. Sri Anvesh took Sri Jaya DevA's famous DasAvathAra SlOkam and intrepreted it with various Sthaayee BhAvams .Pushpa Yaagam**********************Pushpa Yaagam concluded the elaborate DhvAdasa AarAdhanam .Multicolored Pushpams , some unique to India (AraLi) and KrishNa ( dark) TuLasi had been flown in from India for this special occasion .The PushpAnajali was

done with the recitation of the Mantram:" Phalam bhavathu mE Pushpai: Nama: " and Purusha Soktha ,SrI sooktha and BhU sooktha Mantrams to the Lord and His two Devis( Ubahaya NaacchiyArkaL) .The pictures of Pushpa Yaagam and the Videos in the Temple web site will help you to enjoy the soundharyam and Thrupthi of the Lord at the successful conclusion of His BrahmOthsavam .He was beaming with Joy and blessed all His BhakthAs with Theertham and SaThAri . It was already 1.00 AM , when we had to leave so that the Lord can enjoy His sayanOthsavam .Our Prayers ******************Our Prayers are for this BrahmOthsavam tradition to continue --as long as there is the Sun and the Moon-- at this unique Templefor Lord Ranganatha and perhaps another Uthsavam for Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan as at Ahobilam and ThiruvallikkENiin another quarter /ayanam of the year ! Our Prayers are for additional Vaahanams be

ready for the Next BrahmOthsavam !Our Prayers are for the SampradhAyic ( Paancha Raathra Saasthram based) AarAdhanams and the Uthsavams to continue forever !In conclusion , adiyEn is pleased to share with You the good newsgiven by the Chairman Swamy , Dr,Venakt Kanumaslla that Sri Ranganathan's anugraham made it possible to have a revenue-neutralUthsavam , Which had many expenditures . Volunteers and devoteescame forward to meet all the expenses of the BrahmOthsavam .Few Tasks ahead ***********************Many tasks remain to be attended to such as taking care of the Flat Roof for the next tweny years atleast and many other items identified by the Board of the Temple . Please donate liberally to the Roof Repair as the immediate item needing attentionand for the various Kaimkaryams to maintain SampradhAya Parisuddhi at the temple at the highest level !Daasan , Oppiliappan

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