[Advaita-l] A help required - BilvAShTakam

[V Subrahmanian]

Namaste.

Thanks Senani ji, for the clarification.  It helps me comply with the
request from a friend for the stotram written in Tamil for his use.
While on the job, this one word puzzled me and your input is of great
use.

This site has the stotram, although with some mistakes:

http://omshivam.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/om-namaha-shivaya/

This rendering too has some font-related problems:

http://www.shaivam.org/marati/smi_sk_bilvaa.htm

Regards,
subrahmanian.v

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Siva Senani Nori <sivasenani at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sir
>
> To my knowledge, jaatu is an avyaya meaning 'once'; it is more often used with na, as 'na jaatu' meaning not even once. Here the meaning is if one offers a saalagrama Sila (that is the linga, representing Siva) to a Vipra (who is well versed in the Vedas and Sastras), one indeed (hi) gets the same merit as performing a soma yajña. The sloka looks alright.
>
> That said, I am not able to access the original bilvaashTakam and confirm the reading.
>
> Best regards
> Senani
>
>
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> ________________________________
> From: V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Sun, May 2, 2010 10:59:10 PM
> Subject: [Advaita-l] A help required - BilvAShTakam
>
> Namaste.
>
> I would like to see the correct version of this shloka from the BilvAShTakam:
>
> साळग्रामशिलामेकां विप्राणां जातु चार्पयेत्
> सोमयज्ञमहापुण्यं ह्येकबिल्वं शिवार्पणम्
>
> What is the meaning of the word 'jaatu' here?  Is it the correct word there?
>
> Regards,
> subrahmanian.v
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