Guest guest Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 srI:Mahalayam:-Mahalayam means a place of large gathering. Our pitrus come to earth to stay more free here for these 16 days to do good to their progeny. It is our duty to do sraddham, Hiranya sraddham or at least tarpanam.There are two types of observing mahalayam: Paksha mahalayam for observing everyday of the entire mahalaya paksham (15 sraddhams); sakrun mahalayam- one day sraddham or tarpanam. This is in addition to Mahalaya Amavasyai sraddham or tarpaNam.Restrictions: 1. If a pitru sraddham falls within mahalayam, then mahalayam (sraddham) can be observed only after performing the pitru sraddham. Mahalayam can be performed on the next day after the pitru sraddham.2. For sakrun mahalam (one day), on Fridays, prathamai, sashti, chaturdasi, ekadasi tithis, Revati, makam, nakshatrams,self janma nakshatram, patni janma nakshatram orson's janam nakshatram days should not be observed.3. For some reason, if mahalayam can not be observed in bhadrapada krishna paksham, there is time up to thula masam.Exceptions:1. For paksha mahalayam, the above days of tithi, vara and nakshatra dosha restrictions do not apply.2. For sakrun mahalayam, Certain days in this period are considered important: For example the day with bharani is called mahabharani; Krishna paksha ashtami called madhyashtami; navami called vyatipadam; Thrayodasi called Gajachaayai.In these days (mahabharani, madhyashtami, vytipadam or gajachayai), one should not be concerned about restricted vara, nakshatram or tithis dosham as above (under restrictions).sakrun mahalaya sraddham can be observed from Panchami days, on Panchami, saptami,ashtami, navami, dasami,dwadasi, thrayodasi and also pita tithi (excluding pitru sraddham day within mahalayam).In the sankalpam of sakrun mahalaya tarpanam, one should say .. sakrun mahalaya sraddha pratiniti tila tarpanam karishye... AasthikAs should understand the offerings during Pithru Kaaryams are for Pithru DevathAs and not for Pithrus . sriman naaraayaana! dasan.--- On Wed, 8/26/09, vitahavya <vitahavya wrote: vitahavya <vitahavya[Vaideekam] Re: Mahalaya Tarpanam Few observationsvaideekam Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 8:21 AM Dear Swamin,Could someone translate this into English for benefit of non-tamil language people in the group. It will be gratefully appreciated.adiyenvitahavyavaideekam@grou ps.com, Sri Vaishnava Kendram Deevalur Srinivasachariyar <vaideekam@. ..> wrote:>> Receiving many questions about Mahalayam,> So, I wish to circulate a pdf document with few important observations about> Mahalayam.> Now attached documents are automatically stored in our groups under> 'attachments' a new menu introduced by .> So, members are requested to use this facility to download the attachment if> failed to receive through email.> nvs> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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