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Re: Serial on Kamban.

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Gokulchandra Das • January 4, 2003 


Hare Krsna prabhuji, please accept my prnams and bless
me with krsna prem.
i read your article about kamban and was impressed.
you havementioned that you had posted adresses for
some journals etc recently and i am sorry to tell you
that i ahve not seen that note please can you please
send me the names of the ashrams and mutts that print
the journals and their names and proper adresses i am
very interested in them. are they in english? because
i am a sindhi by birth butvery interested in the Sri
Vaishnav literature so please kindly guide me.
i wiii remain forever your servant- Gokulchandra das

















 --- "champakam "
 wrote: > Dear Members:
> 
> A few months back, there was discussion in the List
> about whether 
> kamban was a vaishNava or not.  The detailed account
> that was 
> provided by SrI Hari Krishnan recently through his
> over 60 postings 
> on kamba rAmAyaNam should have helped the readers
> get an appreciation 
> of kamban, the great devotee of Lord rAma.  I was
> just going through 
> the latest issue of SrI nRsihma priyA (December 2002
> issue).  I 
> wanted to bring to the attention of the readers the
> serial that has 
> been appearing in the Journal, with the title
> "kamban kavi amudham".  
> Those who are interested can go through these
> write-ups, and get a 
> feel for his great devotion to AzhvArs and their
> works.  The series 
> of articles on kamban in the PriyA is by va'ngIpuram
> SrI V. N. GopAla 
> deSikAchariayar svAmi.  In the current issue, he
> points out that 
> though even the current day practice in the Indian
> TV serials etc.,  
> is to depict kamban as a Saiva, he is in fact a
> great vaishNava.  The 
> series by SrI Gopala deSikachariayar svAmi deals
> with kamban's 
> composition praising nammAzhvAr, titled "SaThakopar
> AntAdi".
> 
> Needless to say, there are lots of very useful
> articles that are 
> found in the different SrI vaishNava journals
> published by the 
> different ASramam-s and Mutts.  Those who are
> interested should 
> subscribe to as many of these publications as
> possible, and benefit 
> from these.  I had listed over 10 of these
> publications a few days 
> back in our List. 
> 
> -Krishnamachari
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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