Truth

Aniruddhan ani at EE.WASHINGTON.EDU
Tue Aug 21 12:25:41 CDT 2001


namaste,

>___ pravaranvita ___ gotrasya, ___ shakhAdhAyi, ___ upahve ___ Atmaja ___
>sharmo'ham bho
>
>Where the blanks are filled in with pravara[1], gotra, Vedic Shakha[2],
>surname, fathers name[3] and first name.

I'm a tamil iyer and I say:

___pravarAnvita___gotra:___sUtra:___shAkhAdhyAyi___sharmAnAmAham asmibho:

where the last blank is filled with only the given name. I don't think we
say the surname and father's name.

Sruti smRti purANAnAm Alayam karuNAlayam
namAmi bhagavatpAda Sam.karam lokaSam.karam

Aniruddhan



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