Substitution of "Na" for "Ra" in paasurams
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• December 11, 2001
Respected Bhagavathas, Pls accept adiyen's namaskarams. Adiyen has some query abt the way some bhagavathas recite paasurams, especially the way they substitute "na" for "Ra" in tamil. For example, as in: "Payananraagilum Paangalaraagilum Seyal Nannaaga (NanRaga?) thiruthi pani kolvaan Kuyil ninraar pozhil soozh kurugoor nambi Muyalginen (Muyalginren?) avan meikazharkanbaye..." Whats the significance of this substitution?. If that is just a slang or mere tradition that came out of practice. Perhaps you learned scholars could correct me but Adiyen feels that it is very important to recite mantras and paasurams without changing the pronounciation, mainly because not only that the meaning might change but also the very "sound" changes, upon which mantras and paasurams are built. Regards and Thank you very much, Adiyen dasan, Sathyanarayana Ramanujadasan ============================================================ Sathya.Kaliyamoorthy Doctoral Candidate Bio-robotics lab http://biorobots.cwru.edu/ Dept of Mechanical Engg Case Western Reserve Univ. http://www.cwru.edu Cleveland, OHIO USA _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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