[Advaita-l] 8th Bhagayanagar Veda Sabha - Hyderabad - Nallakunta Ramalayam - 23rd Sep - Sunday - All are welcome

[Siva Senani Nori]

8th Bhagyanagar Veda Sabha
Co-operative Community Hall, Next of Ramalayam, Nallakunta, Hyderabad
23rd Sept. 2012, Sunday. 8:30 am to 7:30 pm
 
The Nori Narasimha Sastry Charitable Trust is pleased to announce that the 8th Bhagyanagar Veda Sabha would be conducted at Co-operative Community Hall, Next to Ramalayam, Nallakunta, Hyderabad on 23rd September 2012, Sunday, from 8:30 am to 7:30 pm with a 2 hour break for lunch starting from 12:30 pm. All are welcome.
 
The parīkṣa method is followed wherein in each round, the President and Vice-President of the sabha start reciting a panasa(roughly fifty words) from a random point in each kāṇḍa; the next pair of scholars continues from where the President and Vice-President stop; thereafter the third pair continues from where the second pair stops; and so on till all the scholars present complete chanting one panasaeach in pairs. There would be seven rounds to cover the seven kāṇḍas of the samhitā part of the Krishna Yajurveda and three rounds to cover the Brāhmaṇa, and one to cover the Āraṇyaka and Upaniṣat portions.
 
Ghanapāṭhiswould recite the ghanapāṭha of the panasasin the samhita; Kramapāṭhis would recite the kramapāṭha. Scholars of other branches of Veda, if present, would recite at the beginning or end of each round from the relevant portions of the particular branch. Only the mūlam is recited in the four rounds of Brāhmaṇa and Āraṇyaka.
 
At the beginning, there would be puja (10 minutes or less) to the Vedamātā, and at the end Āśīrvacana (30 minutes), followed by felicitation of Vedic scholars (30 minutes) and distribution of prasādam. Lunch break is between 12:30pm and 2:30pm.
 
Regards
N. Siva Senani
 
P.S.: For those who are Hyderabad, please let your relatives and friends in Hyderabad know of the even in case they might be interested.