SrI abhinava dESika UttamUr VIrarAghava MahA Desikan on Yaadhavaabhyudhayam

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SrI:

 

Dear Sri Sudarsan Parthasarathy :

I had the book here with me but can not locate.

Perhaps I gave it away to the Sri Ranganatha Temple

here .Dr.Venkat Kanumalla might be able to check on that .

 

Meanwhile , It is possible that Dr.Saroja Ramanujam of Chennai

would have it since she posted few essays on it .

 

I have copied her on this note and hope she can

help you in this matter .

 

NamO Sri Yaadhava Kula TilakAya ,

V.Sadagopan

 

 

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Sudarsan Parthasarathy.S.

Oppiliappan ; saranagathi ; desikasampradaya ; Srirangasri ; Ramanujamission

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 7:15 AM

SrI abhinava dESika UttamUr VIrarAghava MahA Desikan on Yaadhavaabhyudhayam

 

 

Sri RAmajayamSrimathE GopAla DEsika MahA DEsikAya NamahaDear BhAgavathAs,There is a request for 2 copies ofUttamUr Swamy's commentary on Swamy Desikan's KavyaGrantham "Yaadhavaabhyudhayam" (in sanskrit). AdiyEncontacted UttamUr Swami's ThirumAligai (Siddhasramam,Nathamuni St, T.Nagar) and realized that thismasterpiece of 500+ pages was not reprinted by SwamyThirumAligai since 1970's and they do not have theoriginal in place. But information was provided thatSri Ahobila Mutt has reprinted this later on, but witha quick note that Sri Nrisimha Priya Office may nothave a copy on the shelf anymore.SHORT TERM NEED:AdiyEn would request BhAgavathAs whohave access to this masterpiece to donate or provideon loan to AdiyEn(AdiyEn took permission fromSiddhasramam to photocopy 1-2 sets).LONG TERM NEED:At the same time, AdiyEn felt if thereis a sufficient interest (minimum US$5000 project,whereby 500 books can be re-printed), we could sponsorSiddhasramam or Sri Nrusimhapriya Office to reprintthe book for the welfare of the current/nextgeneration. Let AdiyEn know if you are interested.AdiyEn Sri RAmAnuja DAsan,Sudarsana DAsOsmi

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Dear all,

Please read the article below, an interesting one for those who want to

preserve old-plalm-leaf manuscripts of our Saampradaayam.

adiyen,

Dr.K

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Indian American scientist restoring 700-year-old sacred Hindu text

Friday September 22 2006 00:00 IST

IANS

WASHINGTON: An Indian American scientist is leading a project to digitally

restore a 700-year-old palm leaf manuscript containing the essence of Hindu

philosophy by using modern imaging technologies.

 

P.R. Mukund and Roger Easton, professors at Rochester Institute of Technology,

are working on the project to digitally preserve the original Hindu writings,

known as the Sarvamoola granthas attributed to scholar Shri Madvacharya

(1238-1317).

 

The collection of 36 works contains commentaries written in Sanskrit on sacred

Hindu scriptures and conveys the scholar's Dvaita philosophy of the meaning of

life and the role of God.

 

The document is difficult to handle and to read, the result of centuries of

inappropriate storage techniques, botched preservation efforts and degradation

due to improper handling.

 

Each leaf of the manuscript measures 26 inches long and two inches wide, and is

bound together with braided cord threaded through two holes. Heavy wooden covers

sandwich the 340 palm leaves, cracked and chipped at the edges. Time and a

misguided application of oil have aged the palm leaves dark brown, obscuring the

Sanskrit writings.

 

" It is literally crumbling to dust, " says Mukund, the Gleason Professor of

Electrical Engineering at RIT.

 

According to Mukund, 15 percent of the manuscript is missing.

 

" The book will never be opened again unless there is a compelling reason to do

so, " Mukund says. " Because every time they do, they lose some. After this, there

won't be a need to open the book. "

 

Mukund first became involved with the project when his spiritual teacher in

India brought the problem to his attention and urged him to find a solution.

 

This became a personal goal for Mukund, who studies and teaches Hindu philosophy

or " our way of life " and understood the importance of preserving the document

for future scholars. The accuracy of existing printed copies of the Sarvamoola

granthas is unknown.

 

Mukund sought the expertise of RIT colleague Easton, who imaged the Dead Sea

Scrolls and is currently working on the Archimedes Palimpsest. Easton, a

professor at RIT's Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, brought in

Keith Knox, an imaging senior scientist at Boeing LTS, as a consultant. Mukund

added Ajay Pasupuleti, a doctoral candidate in microsystems at RIT, and the team

was formed.

 

The scientists travelled to India in December 2005 to assess the document stored

at a monastery-like mathas in Udupi, India. Sponsored by a grant from RIT, the

team returned to the monastery in June and spent six days imaging the document

using a scientific digital camera and an infrared filter to enhance the contrast

between the ink and the palm leaf.

 

Images of each palm leaf, back and front, were captured in eight to 10 sections,

processed and digitally stitched together. The scientists ran the 7,900 total

images through various image-processing algorithms using Adobe Photoshop and

Knox's own custom software.

 

" This is a very significant application of the same types of tools that we have

used on the Archimedes Palimpsest, " Easton says. " Not incidentally, this also

has been one of the most enjoyable projects in my career, since the results will

be of great interest to a large number of people in India. "

 

The processed images of the Sarvamoola granthas will be stored in a variety of

media formats, including electronically, in published books and on silicon

wafers for long-term preservation.

 

Etching the sacred writings on silicon wafers was the idea of Mukund's student

Pasupuleti. The process, called aluminum metallization, transfers an image to a

wafer by creating a negative of the image and depositing metal on the silicon

surface.

 

According to Pasupuleti, each wafer can hold the image of three leaves. More

than 100 wafers will be needed to store the entire manuscript. As an archival

material, silicon wafers are both fire- and waterproof, and readable with the

use of a magnifying glass.

 

Mukund and Pasupuleti will return to India at the end of November to give

printed and electronic versions of the Sarvamoola granthas to the monastery in

Udupi in a public ceremony in Bangalore, the largest city in the Karnataka

region.

 

" We feel we were blessed to have this opportunity to do this, " Mukund says. " It

was a fantastic and profoundly spiritual experience. And we all came away

cleansed. "

 

Based on the success of this project, Mukund is seeking funding to image other

Dvaita manuscripts in the Udupi region written since the time of Shri

Madvacharya. He estimates the existence of approximately 800 palm leaf

manuscripts, some of which are in private collections.

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" Sudarsan Parthasarathy.S. " <sudarsanp wrote:

 

Sri RAmajayam

SrimathE GopAla DEsika MahA DEsikAya Namaha

 

Dear Sri.Venkat Swami,

DanyOsmi Swamin. This reprint

of UtthamUr Swami's work is in Sanskrit, where many of

us do not have parichayam, but certainly of relevance

to scholars/Upanyasakars/DinAcharyas.

 

AdiyEn would try making a VignApanam to Siddhasramam

to come out with a dual version (Sanskrit-Tamizh) or

(Sanskrit-English), as a part of the reprint activity,

but that is a bigger project (efforts, pages/cost).

 

At this point AdiyEn would like to receive sponsors

($200 each), and in return they can take an equivalent

amount of the reprinted masterpiece. If the

sponsorship exceeds $5000, we could envisage a dual

language version easily. At this point we have 2-3

sponsors, and hope we have AchArya katAksham to

realize atleast 23 more sponsors.

 

AdiyEn Sri RAmAnuja DAsan,

 

Sudarsana DAsOsmi

 

--- venkat kanumalla wrote:

 

> Dear bhAgavatAs,

>

> Please give this adiyen a little bhAgyam, to

> share with you all, for anything and everything,

> related to this kind of Kaimkaryams of reprinting "

> YAdavAbhyudayam " , and more so, that is so pleasing

> to our Dearest Lord Kannan - who is so dear to

> Srimad Azhagiyasingars, as an offering at the Lotus

> Feet of Srimad Azhagiyasingars.

>

> " adharAhita chAru vamsa nAlAh, makutAlambi

> mayUra pincha mAlAh -

> hari neela silA vibhanga leelAh, pratibhAh santu

> mamAntima prayANe " .

>

> Also, adiyen can arrange for the sale of, as many

> copies as possible, at Sri Ranganatha Temple, as so

> many devotees and most of the Sri Vaishnavas are

> visiting the Temple on a regular basis.

>

> Srimad Azhagiyasingar Thiruvadigale SaraNam.

> adiyen,

> Venkat kanumalla.

>

 

> >

> > > Sri RAmajayam

> > > SrimathE GopAla DEsika MahA DEsikAya Namaha

> > >

> > > Dear BhAgavathAs,

> > > There is a request for 2 copies

> > of

> > > UttamUr Swamy's commentary on Swamy Desikan's

> > Kavya

> > > Grantham " Yaadhavaabhyudhayam " (in sanskrit).

> > AdiyEn

> > > contacted UttamUr Swami's ThirumAligai

> > (Siddhasramam,

> > > Nathamuni St, T.Nagar) and realized that this

> > > masterpiece of 500+ pages was not reprinted by

> > Swamy

> > > ThirumAligai since 1970's and they do not have

> the

> > > original in place. But information was provided

> > that

> > > Sri Ahobila Mutt has reprinted this later on,

> but

> > with

> > > a quick note that Sri Nrisimha Priya Office may

> > not

> > > have a copy on the shelf anymore.

> > >

> > > SHORT TERM NEED:AdiyEn would request BhAgavathAs

> > who

> > > have access to this masterpiece to donate or

> > provide

> > > on loan to AdiyEn(AdiyEn took permission from

> > > Siddhasramam to photocopy 1-2 sets).

> > >

> > > LONG TERM NEED:At the same time, AdiyEn felt if

> > there

> > > is a sufficient interest (minimum US$5000

> project,

> > > whereby 500 books can be re-printed), we could

> > sponsor

> > > Siddhasramam or Sri Nrusimhapriya Office to

> > reprint

> > > the book for the welfare of the current/next

> > > generation. Let AdiyEn know if you are

> > interested.

> > >

> > > AdiyEn Sri RAmAnuja DAsan,

> > >

> > > Sudarsana DAsOsmi

> > >