Grateful thanks.

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Respected vasu vadiyar avargalluku,

Ramanan aneha namaskarangal.

my grateful thanks for you prompt reply explaining the

significance of mudi errakkum prarthani.

Could you please guide me to any authentic book in

english or tamil , explaining the significance of

sampradayangal/sadangugal.(with details of publication

to enable me to obtain)

Also may I request you clarify on second point raised

by me, namely, during upanayanam, the brahmachari in

sama veda is required to tonsure his head & in other

sakas the boy sports a kudumi. Why this difference.

Thank you,

Pranams

ramanan (poona)

 

Ramanan-Saroja

 

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Some differences will be there between " Soothrams " .

Yajur Vedham Soothrams written by " Aapasthambar "

Saama Vedham Soothrams written by " Dhrahyayanar " , he decided to do 'Mottai' than

'Kudumi' (Vachcha kudumi, Sarachcha mottaiyo ennavo).

 

I remember one related Vaideeka joke:

one time when one person tried to fix a vadhyar for a samskaram for a lady, but

he failed to fix a vadhyar due to some problem. He is having a book, which

describes all the prayogam step by step. So, he thought, what is there, why we

ourselve should not do it, by reading the sentence by sentence and conducting

the karma. He started doing. In one stage, a page in that book is ending as

" Mundanam Kaarayithvaa " which means (Do mottai or remove hairs), he asked the

husband to remove the hairs of the girl (his wife), he turned the next page of

that prayoga book and found " Manthravadhu " which means 'just say the manthram

only without removing hairs actually', he said some " thscho thscho thscho .... "

by his mouth (what we do when we happen to do a thing mistakely) ..... remaining

story guess yourself.

regards,

nvs