Friday, July 24, 2015

Sanskrit alphabet, pronunciation and language

Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्)

Sanskrit is the classical language of Indian and the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It is also one of the 22 official languages of India. The name Sanskrit means "refined", "consecrated" and "sanctified". It has always been regarded as the 'high' language and used mainly for religious and scientific discourse.

Vedic Sanskrit, the pre-Classical form of the language and the liturgical language of the Vedic religion, is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family. The oldest known text in Sanskrit, the Rigveda, a collection of over a thousand Hindu hymns, composed during the 2nd millenium BC.

Today Sanskrit is used mainly in Hindu religious rituals as a ceremonial language for hymns and mantras. Efforts are also being made to revive Sanskrit as an everyday spoken language in the village of Mattur near Shimoga in Karnataka. A modern form of Sanskrit is one of the 17 official home languages in India.

Since the late 19th century, Sanskrit has been written mostly with the Devanāgarī alphabet. However it has also been written with all the other alphabets of India, except Gurmukhi and Tamil, and with other alphabets such as Thai and Tibetan. TheGrantha, Sharda and Siddham alphabets are used only for Sanskrit.

Since the late 18th century, Sanskrit has also been written with the Latin alphabet. The most commonly used system is the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST), which was been the standard for academic work since 1912.

Devanāgarī alphabet for Sanskrit

Vowels and vowel diacritics (घोष / ghoṣa)

Consonants (व्यञ्जन / vyajjana)

Conjunct consonants (संयोग / saṅyoga)

There are about a thousand conjunct consonants, most of which combine two or three consonants. There are also some with four-consonant conjuncts and at least one well-known conjunct with five consonants. Here's a selection of commonly-used conjuncts:

A selection of Sanskrit conjunct consonants

You can find a full list of conjunct consonants used for Sanskrit at:
http://sanskrit.gde.to/learning_tutorial_wikner/P058.html

Numerals (संख्या / saṇkhyā)

Sample text in Sanskrit

सर्वे मानवाः स्वतन्त्राः समुत्पन्नाः वर्तन्ते अपि च, गौरवदृशा अधिकारदृशा च समानाः एव वर्तन्ते। एते सर्वे चेतना-तर्क-शक्तिभ्यां सुसम्पन्नाः सन्ति। अपि च, सर्वेऽपि बन्धुत्व-भावनया परस्परं व्यवहरन्तु।

Translated into Sanskrit by Arvind Iyengar

Transliteration
Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu.

Hear a recording of this text by Muralikrishnan Ramasamy

Another version of this text

सर्वे मानवाः जन्मना स्वतन्त्राः वैयक्तिकगौरवेण अधिकारेण च तुल्याः एव । सर्वेषां विवेकः आत्मसाक्षी च वर्तते । सर्वे परस्परं भ्रातृभावेन व्यवहरेयुः ॥

Transliteration (by Stefán Steinsson)
Sarvē mānavāḥ janmanā svatantrāḥ vaiyaktikagauravēṇa adhikārēṇa ca tulyāḥ ēva, sarvēṣāṃ vivēkaḥ ātmasākṣī ca vartatē, sarvē parasparaṃ bhrātṛbhāvēna vyavaharēyuḥ.

Hear a recording of this text by Shriramana Sharma

Translation and recording by Shriramana Sharma

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Information about Sanskrit | Sanskrit phrases | Tower of Babel in Sanskrit

Online Sanskrit lessons
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/vedol-0-X.html
http://www.elportaldelaindia.com/El_Portal_de_la_India_Antigua/Sánscrito.html

Sanskrit phrases
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Sanskrit/Everyday_Phrases
http://or.girgit.chitthajagat.in/samskrit.wordpress.com/

Sanskrit dictionaries
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/cap_search.html
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/vedol-0-X.html
http://www.elportaldelaindia.com/El_Portal_de_la_India_Antigua/Sánscrito.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dhatu-patha/

Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon
http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/

Devanagari fonts and keyboards
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Devanagari.html
http://www.devanagarifonts.net
http://www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/

Sanskrit Library - contains digitized Sanskrit texts and various tools to analyse them
http://sanskritlibrary.org/

Samskrita Bharati - an organisation established as an experiment in 1981 in Bangalore to bring Sanskrit back into daily life: http://www.samskrita-bharati.org/

Sanskrit Voice - a community of Sanskrit lovers
http://sanskritvoice.com

An archive of Sanskrit dictionaries, readers & grammars in German, English & Russian. (circa 4000 Mb Book Scans, devanagari fonts):http://groups.google.com/group/Nagari

Free Diwali Cards
http://www.diwali-cards.com
http://www.123diwali.com/

ALPHABETUM - a Unicode font specifically designed for ancient scripts, including classical & medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene, Iberian, Celtiberian, Gothic, Runic, Old & Middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Old Nordic, Ogham, Kharosthi, Glagolitic, Old Cyrillic, Phoenician, Avestan, Ugaritic, Linear B, Anatolian scripts, Coptic, Cypriot, Brahmi, Old Persian cuneiform:http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/~jmag0042/alphabet.html

Indo-Aryan languages

Awadhi, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Chakma, Dhivehi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri,Konkani, Kotia, Kutchi, Maithili, Marathi, Marwari, Modi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi,Rajasthani, Romany, Saraiki, Sarnámi Hindustani, Sindhi, Sinhala, Sourashtra,Sugali, Sylheti, Urdu

Languages written with the Devanāgarī alphabet

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Srishti and Pralaya - वेद Veda

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Navo Navo

Modern Sciences In Vedas

About the Book The author devoted six months for this research while discharging his duty as a Judge of Bombay High Court. His discoveries are the subject matter of this book. They are widely acclaimed by the Sariskrit and Vedic scholars. There are three views or schools of thought about Vedas. One…

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THE FLOWER OF LIFE - My Tryst With the Sacred Geometry Blog by Gagandeep Singh

The Mathematical Geometry is the language of the Universe. Be it the planets, stars, satellites or everything else, they speak to us in a very peculiar fashion with their characteristic movements, reflections, gigantic shapes, the universal laws governing them & in return they shape the entire Universal Consciousness.

The Sacred "pi" :-

Ever thought about the power of this number? Well this is an irrational number which actually imparts the very circular pattern to the never ending CIRCLE, the geometrical figure we used to draw in our school times.

Lets consider its ancient significance:

gopi bhagya madhuvrata

srngiso dadhi sandhiga

khala jivita khatava

gala hala rasandara

Over many years researchers have discovered that each one of these Sanskrit
sounds corresponds to a numerical value. It took them a long time to figure this out.

While this verse is a petition to Lord Krishna, when learning it one can also learn the value of pi/10 (i.e. the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter divided by 10) to 32 decimal places. It has a self-contained master-key for extending the review to any number of decimal places. The translation is as follows: "O Lord anointed with the yoghurt of the milkmaids' worship (Krishna), O saviour of the fallen, O master of Shiva, please protect me."

At the same time, by application of the consonant code, this verse directly yields the decimal equivalent of pi divided by 10: pi/10 = 0.31415926535897932384626433832792. Thus, while offering mantric praise to Godhead in devotion, by this method one can also add to memory significant secular truths.

This number was even known to the one of the most ancient civilizations of our earth, The Mesopotamians.

The "Flower Of Life":-

The above image of the Flower of Life is not only found in Egypt, but all over the world. It’s called a flower, not just because it looks like a flower, but because it represents the cycle of a fruit tree. The fruit tree makes a little flower, which goes through a metamorphosis and turns into a fruit— a cherry or an apple or something. The fruit contains within it the seed, which falls to the ground, then grows into another tree. So there’s a cycle of tree to flower to fruit to seed and back to a tree again, in these five steps. This is an absolute miracle. But you know, it just goes right over our heads. It’s so normal that we simply accept it and don’t think much about it. The five simple, miraculous steps in this cycle of life actually parallel the geometries of life.

Hidden deep within our past, lies a secret that has been long forgotten. There have been various organizations throughout history that have protected its secret, It’s the ancient secret of the Flower of Life.

The Flower of Life is one of the fundamental geometries that consciousness creates through. It contains in it the whole Universe. The Consciousness itself is not the Flower of Life, but rather, the means by which it creates. With the awareness of what these geometries mean, we can recognize that our bodies too are manifested from this most basic pattern, and that we are the creators that made us this way. Everyone, everything is connected.

The "Fibonacci Series" :-

The one which creates the Spiral, is a part of the Universal Spiral Galaxies & everything found in the nature.

The "Mer-Ka-Ba" & The Bermuda Triangle:-

The MerKaBa is a vehicle of Ascension. It was believed in ancient times, and even written about by the Hebrews, that the merkavah could be turned on by certain principles in meditation. This involves breathing changes, and mind, heart, and body changes that alter the way a person perceives the reality. A fully activated MerKaBa field enables you to turn your body into a ball of light and bring it with you as you travel from one dimensional world to another.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as The Devil’s Triangle, is one of the most powerful publicly known paranormal locations on Earth. The general shape of a triangle often represents two metaphysical forces coming together in one direction, or three forces becoming one as in the Holy Trinity. It is said to be the first geometric shape God created. A power always attempting to be captured by humans, extraterrestrials, higher dimensional beings, and practitioners of magic via the triangle, or a combination of said shape such as in the case of the supernaturally powerful Pyramid, Tetrahedron, and Merkaba. It is said that people from MARS planet created uncontrolled Merkaba on Earth leading to this triangle.

Pyramids were constructed in Egypt to serve the purpose of batteries for charging spaceships of the Earth. Recently Giant Pyramids and Sphinxes have been founded in The Bermuda Triangle

My Personal Experience:-

[[I’ve resisted the Sikhs because I do not believe that military preparation is necessary, but I’ve studied and practiced almost all
the rest of them—Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Taoist, Sufi, Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist. I’ve deeply studied Tao-ism and Sufism—
I spent eleven years with Sufism. However, through all this study, the most powerful teachers for me have been the
Native Americans. It was the Indians who opened the doorway for all my spiritual growth to take place. They’ve been a
very powerful influence in my life.]]----------- Said "DRUNVALO" the author of the book "THE ANCIENT SECRET OF THE FLOWER OF LIFE". But it left me awestruck when I myself found the same Figure of FLOWER OF LIFE at the Golden Temple, Amritsar. It really forced me to have faith in this Figure & has really changed my perception towards life. Hope for the same experince for all of you my dear readers. This figure really has got mystic powers associated with it. Here are some very useful links:

http://thespiritscience.net/2014/03/08/spirit-science- 6-the-flower-of-life/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ohnyx cvEM

Monday, July 20, 2015

Soulful Connection | Just like that….

ಎಲ್ಲೋ ಹುಡುಕಿದೆ ಇಲ್ಲದ ದೇವರ
ಕಲ್ಲು ಮಣ್ಣುಗಳ ಗುಡಿಯೊಳಗೆ
ಇಲ್ಲೇ ಇರುವ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಸ್ನೇಹಗಳ
ಗುರುತಿಸದಾದೆವು ನಮ್ಮೊಳಗೆ || ಎಲ್ಲೋ ||
ಎಲ್ಲಿದೆ ನಂದನ ಎಲ್ಲಿದೆ ಬಂಧನ
ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಇವೆ ಈ ನಮ್ಮೊಳಗೆ
ಒಳಗಿನ ತಿಳಿಯನು ಕಲಕದೆ ಇದ್ದರೆ
ಅಮೃತದ ಸವಿಯಿದೆ ನಾಲಗೆಗೆ || ಎಲ್ಲೋ ||
ಹತ್ತಿರವಿದ್ದೂ ದೂರ ನಿಲ್ಲುವೆವು
ನಮ್ಮ ಅಹಂಮಿನ ಕೋಟೆಯಲಿ
ಎಷ್ಟು ಕಷ್ಟವೋ ಹೊಂದಿಕೆಯೆಂಬುದು
ನಾಲ್ಕು ದಿನದ ಈ ಬದುಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ || ಎಲ್ಲೋ ||
ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ – ಜಿ ಎಸ್ ಶಿವರುದ್ರಪ್ಪ
ಸಂಗೀತ / ಗಾಯನ – ಸಿ ಅಶ್ವಥ್

I searched elsewhere for god who is not there
in the temples of stone and mud
missing to see the friendliness and love
that is right here amongst us
Where is nandan, where is bandhan
every thing is within us
without knowing what lies within
how can tongue taste the sweetness
Though we are nearest
we stand afar in the fort of the ego
what a great trouble unable to accommodate
in the short life of four days

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow.
Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth.
And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. - See more at:http://allpoetry.com/all-the-w...

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

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పెద్దలు చెప్పిన మంచి మాటలు

వాసన లేని పువ్వుECIL retired friends

వాసన లేని పువ్వు, బుధ వర్గము లేని పురంబు,
భక్తి విస్వాసము లేని భార్య, గుణవంతుడు గాని కుమారుడున్,
సదాభ్యాసము లేని విద్య, పరిహాసము లేని వాచ్య ప్రసంగముల్,
గ్రాసము లేని కొలువు, కొఱగానివి పెమ్మయ సింగ ధీమణీ.

గారెలు లేని విందు , సహకారము లేని వనంబు ,
తొలుత ఓంకారము లేని మంత్రము , అధికారము లేని ప్రతిజ్ఞ ,
వాక్చమత్కారము లేని తెల్వి, గుణకారము లేనటువంటి లెక్క,
వాసము లేని ఇల్లు , కొఱగానివి పెమ్మయ సింగ ధీమణీ.

మచ్జిక లేని చోట అనుమానం వచ్చిన చోట
మెండుగా కుత్యిలున్న చోట రాజు
కరునించని చోట
వివేకు లున్నచో
అచ్చట మోసమండ్రు
కరుణాకర పెమ్మయ సింగ ధీమణీ.

-- జక్కన చెప్పిన 'పెమ్మయ సింగధీమణి' శతకము నుంచిECIL retired friends

Friday, July 17, 2015

Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nikola Tesla says.....
''To me, the universe is simply a great machine

which never came into being and never will end.

The human being is no exception to the natural order.

Man, like the universe, is a machine.

Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions
which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment,
we respond in like manner to similar stimuli,

and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born.

In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed,

but what we call "soul" or "spirit," is nothing more than the sum of the functioning of the body.

When this functioning ceases, the "soul" or the "spirit" ceases likewise.'''

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Obtaining a 'no encumbrance certificate' - The Times of India

Obtaining a 'no encumbrance certificate' - The Times of IndiaEncumbrance refers to a charge created on a property. In case a property is purchased with borrowed money or if it is offered as a security for some loan, then a charge is created in the form of an encumbrance. The property is mortgaged as a security for any debt or obligation.

In any transaction of sale or purchase of property, a 'no encumbrance certificate' is a very important document. This certificate is also issued for the purpose of mortgaging a property while seeking a loan. The certificate certifies that the property in question is not already mortgaged. If it is already mortgaged, the liability for the outstanding loan may also devolve on the new owner.

Procedure to obtain a no encumbrance certificate:

●Apply on Form 22, with a Rs 2 non-judicial stamp affixed, to the Tahsildar giving your complete residential address and the purpose for which the certificate is required

●Copy of ration card or any proof of residence address duly attested should be attached

●Furnish details of ownership of property giving correct survey number and place where the property is situated. It is very important that the period, full description of the property, its measurements, and boundaries are clearly mentioned in the application

●The application should be submitted to the jurisdictional sub-registrar's office under which the property falls

●The requisite fee needs to be paid. The fee is to be paid year-wise, with any fraction of the year being taken as a full year

●The Tahsildar will seek a report on whether there is any entry in favour of any person or legal body. In case there is no such entry and the report is favourable, the no encumbrance certificate is issued. The time taken may be anywhere between 15 to 30 days.

A no encumbrance certificate is issued in either Form 15 or Form 16. In case the property does not have any encumbrance during the period, Form 16 is issued. In case the property has any charges registered against it, then Form No 15 is issued. Form 15 discloses:

●Nature of charges created

●Documents registered in respect of the property

●Amounts secured

●Registered numbers of the documents

●Registration details and references - book numbers

The encumbrance certificate is usually issued in the language in which the registers and records are maintained at the sub-registrar's office. However, an English translation can be obtained on payment of additional fees.

The certificate discloses the encumbrance status of a particular property. The certificate is issued for a particular period of time and does not cover any period prior to or following the period mentioned. The certificate is an extract of the register maintained by the sub-registrar's office, which in turn is based on the documents registered with the registrar's office.

In case a particular document is not registered with the office of the registrar, it won't be captured in the encumbrance certificate. These include:

Creation of equitable mortgage: This is mortgage by deposit of title deeds where the borrower deposits the original documents pertaining to the property with the bank and does not get it registered at the registrar's office.

Testamentary documents: These need not be registered with the registrar.

Short leases: Any lease for a period of less than one year need not be registered.