[Vaideekam] Soorya Grahanam Vs Amavasai - which tharpaNam to be performed?

July 10, 2008

SwAmin, adiyen has heard from SrI Karunakarachariar SwAmi during SrI bhAshya

Kalakshepam that when one is facing two items to be performed at a time, he has

to choose the rarer occurrence. Naturally the more frequent item is given up.

This is as per the Sastra. So, on the Grahanam day, in particular, surya

grahanam, which occursÂ on the amAvAsya only, we have to do only the Grahana

TharpanamÂ which gets preferrence over the amAvAsya tharpanam which is a monthly

reccurence. There is no dispute on this. It is also a rule one has to perform

only one tharpanam on a single day. There is no second.

Regards,

SrinivasanÂ Â

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As per my views;

here is no need for giving up anything.

Because the original thing to be performed is tharpaNam;

so it will be done in either case.

Saastram is suggesting to use the more powerful time to perform it.

A by-cycle and a car is going to a same destination at a time;

Then which transport you choose to send your parcel?

nvs

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A cc message from some other group & my answer for it.

nvs

>>Dear All,

>>

>> Ammaavasya Tharppanam is done for Pitrus but Grahana

>>Tharpanam is done for Devataas, ( Gods).SURYA and CHANDRA are Devas

>>and PITRUS are most important then than anyone else including the

>>PARAMAATMA SRIMAN NAARAAYANA.In case Grahana appears on Ammavaasya

as >>in this case only one Tharpanamm should be performed (i.e.)

>>AMMAVAASYA Tharpanam should be performed.I disagree with Vaasu

>>Vadhyaar.This is my humble answer to all.

here is the sankalpa vaakyam for " Soorya grhaNam "

if a person who have a little sanskrit knowledge can understand it

very well.

" ....GothraaNaam ........SharmaNaam ..... pithru, pithamaha,

prapithaamahaaNaam ....

Akshayya thrupthyartham Sooryoaparaaga puNya kaale sooryoparaaga shradham

Thila tharpaNa roopeNa karishye "

from this sankalpam we can conclude the following things:

1. It is clearly mentione that this karma is pithruNaam Akshaya

thrupthyartham.

2. No where mentioned soorya devada thripthyartham or soorya devada

anugrahaartham etc.

3. The word Shradham is one and only for pithrus.

4. Also Thilam is not offered for any devadas (except Sani) other than

pithrus.

5. We are offering thilodhagam to our ancesstors only with their names

and relations and not saying any devada names.

So, we could conclude the grahaNa tharpaNam is meant for pithrus only

and not for others.

Further:

There is no chance for using " Incase soorya grahaNam happens on

Amavasya day " because,

Soorya grahaNam will take place on Amavasya day only as per science

(not only per saastram) which is also a very basic thing.

As we are doing tharpanams in grahana punyakalams to our pirthrus only

not to surya or chandra

If there is more than one punya kaalam on a same day, we select the

most valuable one out of them

to perform the tharpanam to our pithrus.

We can compare it with an example, if we have two lagnams on a same

day for subhams,

we will select the best one out of it.

The thing (subham) we decided to do on that day is same, but we are

choosing the best time to do that.

Like that,

Soorya grahaNa punya kaala time is greater than Amavasya punya kaala

time to perform tharpaNam and hence saastram is giving exemption to

perform tharpanam for persons who are in janana. maraNa theetu also.

nvs

July 10, 2008

srI:Sri NVS swamin,dasoham.Adiyen agrees with you. Adiyen never heard of anyone stating tarpanam to Devatas on a Grahanam day. Any pitru tarpanam on chandra/surya grahanam is done for pitrus (vasu, rudra and aditya). One of the times tarpanam to devatas is performed during upAkarma day.Sastram vidhi changes if grahanam and Sraddham combined or Amavasyai tarpanam and a sraddham combined on the same day. A punya kalam on a grahana day is due to clouding of earth's shadow on moon or sun when the moon or sun is not visible to naked eye.dasan.--- On Thu, 7/10/08, vasuvadhyar <svknvs wrote:vasuvadhyar <svknvs

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