Sankalpa / Saturday, March 5.

[Guest guest]

All:

 

I just recieved the sankalpa for the Prayer Club on Saturday, March

5, 2005. I could sure use some help with the sanskrit pronunciation.

Can someone help me?

 

 

Michael

[Guest guest]

Here's an audio of the chant:

http://www.shreemaa.org/tryambakam.htm

 

And here are bunch of pronunciation guides. They refer to different

styles of transliterated Sanskrit, hence the references to the

diacritical marks. Get what you can out of them, and don't worry too

much about it, I'd say.

 

http://www.shambhala.com/html/learn/features/yoga/sutras/pronounce-2.cfm

http://www.shambhala.com/html/learn/features/yoga/sutras/pronounce-2.cfm

http://www.selfdiscoveryportal.com/cmSanskritPron.htm

http://www.sanskrit.org/Sanskrit/Sanskritpronunication.pdf

 

These guides don't generally address syllabic stress; here's what

Devadatta Kali has to say about syllabic stress [from the

pronunciation guide in his _In Praise of the Goddess_]:

 

"The accentation of syllables in Sanskrit is weaker than in English.

The stress falls on the penultimate (next to last) syllable when that

syllable contains a long vowel, a diphthong (e, ai, o, au), or a

short vowel followed by two or more consonants. Otherwise, the

stress falls on the antepenultimate, or preceding syllable."

 

, "Michael Doughty"

<woebegone01> wrote:

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> [....] I could sure use some help with the sanskrit pronunciation.

> Can someone help me?

[Guest guest]

All:I just recieved the sankalpa for the Prayer Club on Saturday,

March 5, 2005. I could sure use some help with the sanskrit

pronunciation. Can someone help me?MichaelJai Maa! Jai Shiva!

Jai Swamiji!

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