Punyaahavachanam + other vaideeka karmas

[Guest guest]

Dear Sri Vasu Vadhyar swamin,

 

Thank you for your clarifications. A couple more small

questions, relating not only to this but other karmas:

 

> As a brahmin all should know at least some small portions of vedha

manthram to chant.

 

So my question in this case is: under " punyaaha japam " you have

given manthrams starting with " dadhikraaviNNo... " ending in " sham

chatuShpade, om shaantih... " . If we do not know the whole paavaamaana

suuktam but we do know " dadhikraaviNNo " etc. from doing our

sandhyaavandanam, if there is no swamy available or we cannot find a

recording is it acceptable to just chant those manthrams which we have

undergone adhyayanam for (e.g. ones which are common to

sandhyavandanam as well).

 

In general with other karmas, if there is a long portion of vedam

to be recited, but we only know a small part of it, can we just recite

the part we know, or is it best not to do the karma with half of the

manthrams etc?

 

I am trying to put together an English text version of punyaaham

which may be of benefit to the members who do not read Tamil. I have

started but having difficulty finishing due to work pressures. After

I have completed a draft I will try and send you a copy (I may have

incorrectly translated some of the Tamil). I will try and do this for

some other karmas as well in future.

 

praNAmams,

namO nArAyaNAya

Ranjan

 

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I could not say any positive answer to your questions.

 

Why all these things?

I am here to do all these things.

Call me through your web cam, I will recite anything for you

whenever and whatever you need.

Wait upto the end of April 2007.

Otherwise,

Give me two three days time to record and send you any portion of Vedham

(Yajur immediately and Samam will take time)

 

nvs

[Guest guest]

Dear Srimaan NVS swAmin,

 

Thanks for your message. It is indeed extremely kind of you to

be providing the services that you do through this website, as already

said by the other members. I hope one day I can start the

online-santhai class as well, when I have the facility. Rest assured

that when I have webcam facility, I shall be eager to start.

 

Also thanks to members Srimaan Shreyas swAmin and Srimaan

Sadagopan swAmin for reproducing the puNyAha sAmans and the

enthralling translations. A few years ago I could barely find any

information about sAma shAkha on the internet. Thanks yourselves, and

to internet tools such as this group, it looks like this is slowly

changing and we are able to preserve some information about this

relatively rare shaakha.

 

praNAmams to all,

namO nArAyaNAya,

Ranjan