[Advaita-l] Advaita-l Digest, Vol 67, Issue 23

[Sriram Krishnamurthy]

Hi,
please find the link below for the telugu edition of Nirnaya Sindu

http://www.archive.org/details/nirnayasindhuvup021825mbp

Regards,
Sriram

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:41 AM, D.V.N. Sarma <dvnsarma at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can kindly give the URL for the telugu edition of Nirnaya Sindhu at
> orchive.org?
>
> regards,
> Sarma.
>
> On 2/26/10, sthanunathan Ramakrishnan <r_sthanu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> ------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 5
> >> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:11:06 -0500
> >> From: Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rama.balasubramanian at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Ekadashi Questions
> >> To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
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> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Siva Senani Nori
> >> <sivasenani at yahoo.com>wrote:
> >>
> >> > Dear Sri Sthanunathan
> >> >
> >> > Nirnaya Sindhu, also called Kala Nirnayah, written in
> >> the 17th century by
> >> > Sri Kamalakara Bhatta is a compendium of such issues.
> >> There is a later
> >> > derivative book called Dharma Sindhu by Kasinatha
> >> Upadhyaya which deals with
> >> > it. We are smarta Brahmins from Vengi (the region
> >> between Krishna and
> >> > Godavari near the Eastern coast) in AP, and in all
> >> such matters the word of
> >> > Dhrama Sindhu is taken as binding in our families.
> >> >
> >> > The Nirnaya Sagar edition of the Nirnaya Sindhu in
> >> Devanagari characters is
> >> > available in the Digital Library of India at
> >> >
> http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scripts/use_scripts/advnew/metainfo.cgi?&barcode=2020010008716
> .
> >> > There is also a verion in Telugu characters with
> >> translation into Telugu
> >> > available at archive.org, but that might not be
> >> relevant to most. Anyway
> >> > it is only a simple Google search away.
> >> >
> >> > In the very beginning these books - both the Nirynaya
> >> Sindhu and Dharma
> >> > Sindhu - haves a lengthy discourse on EkaadaSi - how
> >> to determine ekaadaSi,
> >> > what are the vratas to be followed, who should follow
> >> it, what are the rules
> >> > for Vaishnavas, what are the rules for smaartas etc.
> >> >
> >> > Broadly speaking tithis are Suddha or viddha (that is
> >> they have a vedha, an
> >> > overlapping, by some other tithi). Vaishnavas reckon
> >> the vedha based on
> >> > Arunodaya (4 ghadiyas - a ghadiya is 24 minutes; 60
> >> ghadiyas make a day -
> >> > before sunrise, suryodaya) and smaartas based on
> >> Suryodaya; depending on the
> >> > kind of vedha or absence thereof, and of the type of
> >> adhikya
> >> > (another aspects of tithi, too involved to be
> >> discussed here) there are
> >> > eighteen types of ekadaSi for Vaishnavas and Smartas
> >> each. I also noticed
> >> > two types of Vaishnavas - Suddha and sarva - but since
> >> this is not a
> >> > Vaishnava forum and since most of us here are not
> >> intimately aware of
> >> > divisions amongst them, we will let that be.
> >> >
> >> > For each of these types of ekadaSi, the rules differ
> >> slightly. The details
> >> > would not be of interest to the readers of that list
> >> and so are skipped. If
> >> > you insist, we can correspond privately on that.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Very informative and please do post it, it would be of
> >> interest to many.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Rama
> >>
> >
> > Namaskara Sri Senani,
> >
> > Yes, Indeed its very informative. Please do post more on it.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sthanu
> >
> >
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