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Mandir Vani News Letter of Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of the Rockies 8375 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Littleton, CO 80128 www.hindutempleofcolorado.org 303-948-9693 email:[email protected]

The mission of the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of the Rockies (HTCC) is to provide a forum for religious worship and celebrations, and for cultural, religious, and spiritual development activities based on Hindu / Vedic / Sanatan - Dharma traditions.

Editorial Board Acharya K. C. Upadhyay (Priest) Madhur Mahajan (Editor) Mahesh Jha (President)

Table of Contents

Upcoming Celebrations/ Bhoomi Pooja Samaroha Page 1 Board Briefings Page 7 Bhoomi Pooja Program Page 2 Landmark List Page 8 Update on New Temple Project Pages 3-4 Donors’ List Page 9-10 New Temple Conceptual Design Page 5 Pledge Form Page 11 Suggested Donations Page 6

Upcoming Celebrations

Bhoomi Pooja Samaroha With God’s grace, we have acquired the land for the land for groundbreaking ceremony and start our new temple. Please join us to celebrate our first construction of a new temple in future. major milestone, the Bhoomi Pooja Samaroha, on Once the land becomes sanctified, it generates June 23rd. The festivities begin at 8:30 AM; please harmonious energies and enables people and see the Bhoomi Pooja Program for more details. communities to come together for achieving a common The purpose of Bhoomi Pooja Samaroha is the goal of “Sahanavavatu Sahanau Bhunaktu…” veneration and sanctification of the land (Earth / Several poojas will be performed to complete this Bhoomi). Earth is one of the five elements, and also ceremony. This is a rare opportunity in a lifetime to the center of all elements. Earth holds the Water to observe our ancient Vedic rituals and experience the flow, provides combustion for the Fire, objects for most exhilarating moments of the Hindu Dharma. Please the Air to blow, and base for a person to look at the join us and be a part of this historic moment. Sky (Space). Bhoomi Pooja is performed to prepare

Volume 11, No. 1 Mandir Vani Page 1 Summer 2007 Bhoomi Pooja Program Place: New Hindu Temple Site 12 P.M. to 12:30 P.M. Address: 7200 S. Potomac St, Centennial, CO • Blessing of the Stone Plaque by Acharya Ji

• Speech and Presentation by the President, Dr. 8:30 A.M. to 12 P.M. Mahesh Jha and others. Ganesh Pooja This pooja is performed to invoke Lord Ganesha for 12:30 P.M. the removal of obstacles and begin the new Aarti endeavor. Sarvatobhadra-Mandal Pooja Lunch Prasad Sarvatobhadra Mandal is made of grains and is Cultural Program placed along with the offerings for Gods. On this *** Mandal, Gods - Lokpaalaas, Dikpaalaas, Yoginis, and other related deities are invited and offered Historic Moments pooja to bless the hosts and attendees. The Mandal is significant in bringing physical, mental and spiritual harmony. Navagrah Pooja Nine Planets are worshipped on the Mandal (made of grains) for the removal of sinful karmas of past and present lives and bestow the blissful life onwards. Kalash Pooja On a drawing of eight-pattle lotus flower, a Kalash (water pot) is placed with the chanting of Vedic hymns. Water is the essence of life on earth. Thus by worshipping it, we harmonize with all living beings.

Punyah Vachan On the same Kalash, we invite all the Rishis, The Land Sign-up Sages, Nature Gods like Seasons, Rivers, and other harmonious elements. Specific Vedic mantras are used in invocation of blessings for health, wealth, progeny, happiness and peace. Homa (Havan) Usually, after every pooja, if Muhurta and situation permit, a Homa is performed to please the invited Gods. Fire is the holiest form of all mediums to make offerings to Gods. One of the segments of the Homa is called “The Sarvaprayashehitla Homa”, which means to compensate and forgive for any mistakes we may have committed in fixing the muhurta and following the proper procedure in doing the pooja. After the completion of all poojas, the Water from the Kalash, and from the Prokshanipatra of the Homa is sprinkled on hosts, attendees and the land in the form of blessings from all Gods. The First Steps on the Land

Volume 11, No. 1 Mandir Vani Page 2 Summer 2007 Update on New Temple Project

Since you received the Fall 2006 issue of Mandir incorporate the Vastu concepts as much as Vani, significant progress has been made on the practical in modern times in a cold climate. New Temple project. Those of you who have given your email address to us, we have been Business Plan sending updates almost on a monthly basis. However, for about half of the families on our We are currently working on the Business Plan regular mailing list, we do not have the email and will be presenting the draft to the community address, so here is a brief update on this major during Bhoomi Poojaa Samaroha on June 23, undertaking. 2007. It is realized that with two priests and much larger temple, the current approach of Purchase of Land focusing on religious services only cannot support the operation and upkeep of the We have purchased a 4.25 acre lot at 7200 facilities. Our plan is to continue to provide these South Potomac Street in Centennial, Colorado. and other basic spiritual, educational and cultural The deal was closed on January 30, 2007. programs at low or no cost to encourage greater Thanks to the widespread community support participation of the community. In addition, we and to the families from all regions who plan to offer other services and programs at fair, contributed generously – from a few dollars to but below market cost, to generate income for 50,000 that made it possible to pay $500,000 in the operation and upkeep of the facilities as well cash. We will be celebrating this accomplishment as construction of additional facilities. These at the Bhoomi Poojaa Samaroha on Saturday, offerings will include a flower and gift shop, a June 23, 2007 morning and every one is commercial kitchen and banquet hall to cater to welcome. groups of 50 to 500 people (no alcohol or meat), and a theater style auditorium for 325 people to Requirements Document and experience and enjoy discourses by saints and Conceptual Design scholars, cultural performances by local artists (organized by regional associations), concerts The New Temple Design Committee worked and shows by famous artists from India and hard for several months to develop a conceptual USA, and screening of classic Hindi and regional design of the facilities that will meet the language movies. Again, we seek your community needs for now and future, without the comments. need of an expansion for at least ten years. It took considerable efforts to reach a consensus Project Plan on selection of deities and their placement. Based on request from many community As things stand currently, we hope to get the members and their pledge of support, we have detailed design and permitting done by spring also included a separate but attached temple for 2008 and hold the groundbreaking ceremony in Sai Baba. The conceptual design is presented in summer 2008. Assuming timely availability of the attached drawing. We welcome your funds, the construction can be completed by Fall comments and suggestions. A commercial artist of 2009. As for the budget, the size of facilities is working on a 3-dimensional color sketch that has increased significantly to meet the needs will be presented during Bhoomi Poojaa discussed above as well as Sai Baba temple. It Samaroha. is our preliminary estimate that the design and permitting may cost $300,000 and construction We plan to use this design to solicit bids from of buildings with total floor area of about 20,000 Architects and Engineering Companies (from sq ft may cost $2 million. Then there will be America and India) to perform the detailed installation of deities, furnishings and architectural and engineering design to make the landscaping. So the total project budget is facilities aesthetic, functional and compliant with estimated at $3 million or little more. the codes (City of Centennial, Arapahoe County). We have considered and included Fund Raising Vastu principles in locating the various areas and sizing the two buildings and two main temples While some money has come from the sale of and the Architect we select will further land (third lot at the current location) and some

Volume 11, No. 1 Mandir Vani Page 3 Summer 2007 will come from the sale of the current building, voluntary service to your community in terms of after we move, most of the funding has to come personal satisfaction, pride and recognition will from the community. Based on experience of last a lifetime. other temples, and our own experience, the funds will come from a small number of large Please contact Bipin Agarwal: (303) 883-6198, donors as well as a large number of small Mahesh Jha: (303) 526-0260, Satish V (Sam) donors. We plan to recognize the large donors in Kumar: (720) 973-4635, Narender Kumar: (303) many ways including naming some of the 797-8029, or Reva Nayar: (303) 303-690-4347 buildings and facilities after them. for further details on any item discussed above or others related to the project. We are pursuing several fund raising approaches in parallel. The Landmark List campaign was very successful. Over 150 Shri Sai Baba Temple Proposed families contributed over $450,000 that was used for the land purchase. Their names will be laser The Sai Baba Temple between the main temple etched on a graphite slab as a historical marker and cultural center buildings has been proposed to be installed on the site. Our next immediate and approved by the board. Further details will goal is to raise at least $300,000 by summer end be available in future. to fund the detailed design and obtain permit by spring of 2008. Please use the Fund contribution *** slip to make your pledge/contribution. If preferred, you can indicate total planned Temple Schedule contribution on the Pledge Form and pay it over three years. You can make contributions in your Mon –Fri: 10 A.M. – 2 P.M. name, in some one else’s name, or choose to Sat and Sun: 9 A.M. – 9 P.M. remain anonymous. All the major Hindu festivals are celebrated in the To further facilitate the contributions, we have temple on actual day. In addition, Poornima and set up accounts and services to accept stock Sankat Har Chaturthi (fourth day after the full donations and donations on Master card and moon) poojas are performed every month. Visa. Please also remember that if you work for Please contact Acharya Ji or Pundit Ji for more an employer that matches contributions to information. charitable organizations, approach them.

Kudos Community Participation and Non- Last April, just after the Rama Navami financial Support celebration, Sai Group of Denver, coordinated by Many community members, who are not Mrs. Gangadharan, helped in painting the trustees, have been helping us in various ways. temple. The project was half-done and hanging Most notable among them is Mrs. Shashi Kumar for a while; a bunch of dedicated folks got who has been keeping track of New Temple together and finished it like a breeze. Thank you. Fund. We need additional help, particularly in the areas of accounting (Quick Books data entry, auditing), communications (expanding the address directory and email list, Mandir Vani, Web Site) and fundraising (approaching your friends and community).

As we start the detailed design process, we invite architects and engineers (soil, surveying, structural, mechanical, electrical, lighting etc) to join the project as advisors and/or project engineers. Please remember that as a community project, and it often takes more time to make a decision. However, the reward of your

Volume 11, No. 1 Mandir Vani Page 4 Summer 2007 NEW TEMPLE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN This design is work in progress; once all the changes have been approved and incorporated, it will be handed over to an architect for the final version.

Volume 11, No. 1 Mandir Vani Page 5 Summer 2007 Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of the Rockies 8375 South Wadsworth Boulevard, Littleton, CO 80128 phone/fax: 303-948-9693 website: www.hindutempleofcolorado.org email : [email protected] Temple Opening Hours Weekdays: 10 AM - 2 PM and 5 PM - 9 PM; Weekends: 9 AM - 9 PM

Chief Priest: Acharya Kailash C. Upadhyaya; home: 720-344-1448; cell:303-847-3868 Assistant Priest: Pundit N. D. Raghavendra; cell:303-954-9274 Please contact Acharya Ji or Pundit Ji at above numbers to schedule ceremonies and get details for preparations

Schedule of Suggested Donations for Various Ceremonies

The HTCC Board of Trustees adopted a standard policy regarding performance of various religious and cultural ceremonies by either of the priests, at the request of Yajmans (sponsors). It is requested that the sponsors (yajmans) donate the amount indicated below, or more, for specific ceremonies. Please pay the amount by a check made to Hindu Temple and Cultural Center and give it to the priest who performed the ceremony. If you choose to give cash, ask and get a proper receipt. The priest will give the money and copy of the receipt to our Treasurer.

Ceremony Performed at Temple Off Site** Poojaas Archana (108 names) of any one deity$ 15 Archana of any 5 deities$ 51 Arti of any one deity$ 21 Arti of any 5 deities $ 101 Sankata Haran Chaturthee$ 31 Pradosh - Shiva Abhishekam*$ 101 Sunday Pooja of any deity and/or Havan with Prasad Bhoj for all devotees in Temple $ 501 Sunday Pooja of any deity and/or Havan with Yajman providing Prasad Bhoj $ 161 Poornima night Satya Narayan Poojaa, Prasad by Yajman $ 51 Poojaa of any deity, Satya Narayan Kathaa, Havan$ 161 $ 211 Chandeepath (Durga Saptshatee) during Navaratra, one day$ 201 $ 251 Birthday Poojaa$ 161 $ 211 Punyahvachan$ 161 $ 211 Sanskaaras Naamkaran or Annaprashan (Naming baby / first solid food)$ 161 $ 211 Vidyaarambh (schooling initiation)$ 101 $ 211 Choodakaran (Mundan) $ 161 $ 211 Yagyopaveet (Janaeu) - Thread ceremony$ 261 $ 311 Vivah (wedding)$ 751 $ 601 Seemantham$ 201 $ 251 Last Rites (performed at cremation) $ 211 Shraadh and Pind Dan (at home) $ 211 Other Ceremonies Bhoomi Poojaa / Shilanyasa (for new building) $ 251 Grihapravesh / Vastu Poojaa (House warming) $ 251 Vaahan Aaashirvaadam (Blessing New Car)$ 25

* Group sponsorship encouraged. Upto 3 sponsors - share the $101 donation, if more sponsors - $31 each ** The amount should not be offset by any money offered by you or your friends and relatives on deities, in arti thali or as dakshina given to priest at blessing time. That money is for the priest and not the temple. The amounts suggested are for Denver and surrounding suburbs. Please pay following amounts separately to the priest to cover extra time for travel and mileage: $50 for Boulder, Brighton, Lafayette and Longmont; $100 for Colorado Springs and Fort Collins.

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Board Briefings…

The Board of Trustees is responsible for overall management of the Hindu Temple and Cultural At the request of certain community members, the Center of the Rockies (HTCC). It sets policies Board formed a Task Force to evaluate the and guidelines. The day-to-day operations are constitution of HTCC and recommend the managed by the Officers and Committees. The desirable changes. After deliberating the Task names and phone numbers of the current Officers Force recommendations, the Board decided that and Trustees are given below. If you have any an Advisory Council will be formed with suggestions about the operations of the current community leaders who have contributed $25,000 temple, plans for the new temple, or you would or more towards the New Temple Fund. The like to volunteer your services, please feel free to Board also decided that there is no reason to contact them. change the current policy of election of Trustees and an open congregation membership (any one We thank Mr. Pushpa Khatri and Mrs. Madhur whose name is on the temple mailing list) will Mahajan who retired from the Board at the end of continue with no set fee or donation requirement. 2006. We are also glad to report that Mrs. Mahajan, who retired from the Board after many Welcome the New Priest years of service, will continue to edit Mandir Vani Please welcome the new priest, Pundit and help with the communications. Raghavendra Iyyer. Pundit Ji was born and raised in an orthodox Brahmin family near the holy We also welcome Mr. Paresh Patel, Dr. Vasant city of Thirumala, Andhra Pradesh. He followed Pawar, and Dr. Prabhakara Rao as new Trustees. his grandfather’s footsteps and started learning They would be helping with greater involvement of Vedas at a tender age of 8. Pundit Ji is well Gujarati, Marathi and communities in the versed in Sanskrit and Hindu scriptures and has current temple operations and in the New Temple worked as a priest at temples as well as taught project. Sanskrit in . He is highly educated and Recently, the Board approved a policy to holds M. Phil degree in Gemology (Rathna standardize the minimum amount of suggested Vichhara) from Chinnai University. Pundit Ji has donations and methods of payment for the interest in Jyothisha and Vedic Astrology and has Poojaas and Sanskaaras performed in taught classes as a private tutor and has accordance with the request of Yajmans either at conducted Vedic seminars in various places. the Temple or off site, by priest – Acharya K.C. Pundit Raghavendra Ji is a valuable addition to Upadhyay Ji or Pandit Raghavendra Ji. The full our community and we are proud to have him on information is presented in this issue of Mandir board. Vani. Please keep it for your reference.

Officers President Mahesh Jha 303-526-0260 Vice President – New Temple Narender Kumar 303-797-8029 Vice President - Operations C. P. Mishra 303-973-7765 Secretary Ram Vaithianathan 303-799-8157 Treasurer Satish Kumar 720-232-8287

Trustees

Bipin Agarwal 303-883-6198 Satish V. Kumar 720-489-5093 Reva Nayar 303-690-4347 Arun Budhiraja 303-755-4805 Paresh Patel 303-693-0576 Prabhakar Rao 303-979-4193 Saroj Chatterjee 303-470-2801 Vasant Pawar 303-663-2575 Sridhar Talanki 303-883-2403 Paritosh Kaul 720-488-3546 Ved Nanda 303-377-6438 Raja Upadhyay 303-526-4297

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List Updated on 5/2/07

LANDMARK LIST The HTCC Board of Trustees gratefully acknowledge the indicated cash contributions of following visionaries for the purchase of this land for $500,000 in cash on January 30, 2007. May God bless them and their families as well as other families whose contributions made up the difference! NAME Amount, $ NAME Amount, $ NAME Amount, $ Ashutosh, Ashutosh & Sreedevi 50,000 Anonymous 1 25,001 Malhotra, Chaman & Aruna 21,200 Kumar, Narender & Camille 20,800 Nayar, Inder & Reva 20,505 Mathur, Inder & Madhu 20,000 Jha, Mahesh & Subhadra 11,202 Vashisht, Ramesh & Rama 11,000 Mohan, Narinderkumar & Kusum 10,121 Kumar, Satish V. & Shashi 11,000 Agrawal, Damodardass & Pu 10,000 Malhotra, Deepak & Jyotishna 8,002 Aichbhaumik, Dibyajyoti & Nilanjana 6,150 Murthy, Krishna & Ratna 6,000 ClientSolv, Inc. 5,501 Chatterjee, Nirmalya & Saroj 5,500 Verma, Mahendra & Neelima 5,402 Anonymous 2 5,301 Pawar, Vasant & Asha 5,200 Dhar, Abhinav & Aparna 5,100 Great-West Insurance CO (matching) 5,100 Upadhyay, Raja & Prabha 5,100 Maddhi, Rajani & Shanthi 5,000 Mantripragada, Sankaram & Nalini 5,000 Mishra, C. P. & Asha 5,000 Saran, Vishnu & Eileen 5,000 Vaidyanathan, Krishna & Jaishree 5,000 Annamalai, Segar & Meena 3,001 Giri, Rajendra & Sharada 3,001 Saxena, Gyan & Nidhi 2,721 Rao, Prabhakara & 2,650 Budhiraja, Arun & Janet 2,501 Gaonkar, Salil & Padmaja 2,500 Jalan, Rishi & Varsha 2,500 Mehta, Rajiv & Bina 2,500 Radhakrishnan, K & Indira 2,500 Upadhyay, Kailash & Aarti 2,500 Ganuthula, Kiran & Pallavi 2,116 Baluja, Satish & Veena 2,101 Agarwal, Tarun & Seema 2,100 Mehta, Sunder & Pushpa 2,000 Sametanahalli, Raghavendra & Padmini 2,000 Talanki, Sridhar & Subhalakshmi 2,000 Sinha, Deepak & Suhita 1,681 India's Restaurant 1,500 Kapoor, Kishen & Asha 1,500 Sapru, Anil & Suneeti 1,500 Senthilvel, Sadras & Kothai 1,500 Gangolli, Chinmoy & Vinata 1,400 Jerath, Ravi & Veena 1,363 Raje, Prakash & Smita 1,351 Kailasam, Kalaiselvi & Children 1,252 Bhat, Pawan & Raj 1,211 Arora, Manohar & Sharmishtha 1,201 Bookanakere, Niranjan & Padma 1,201 Rao, Kumar & 1,200 Sunthankar, Shivalini 1,200 Vibhandik, Prabhakar & Geetai 1,162 Walia, Deepak & Indira 1,150 Srinidhi, Hassan & Prathima 1,125 Boppuddi, Naga & Padmaja 1,116 Chennu Sreemannarayana 1,116 Cheruku, Venugopal & Praveena 1,116 Garimella, Murthy & Sridevi 1,116 Gundu, Rajesh 1,116 Karamsetty, Baburao & Sandhyarani 1,116 Kunapuli, Krishna & Nagalakshmi 1,116 Morisetti, Hari & Lalitha 1,116 Nalla, Rao & Subha 1,116 Nallapati, Sumana 1,116 Ponnapalli, Sridhar & Radha 1,116 Reddy, Dileep & Sangeeta 1,116 Balakrishnan, Venugopal & Vineeta 1,111 Joshi, Hemant & Prerana 1,111 Nanda, Ved & Katharine 1,111 Raghuraman, Srinivasan & Parameshwari 1,102 Woonnimani, Krishnamurthy & 1,102 Chandramauli, Janki 1,101 Sachdeva, Hans & Prem 1,101 Singh, Shivi & Jayshree 1,101 Govindakrishnan, Sreeram & Meenakshi 1,100 India's Castle Restaurant 1,100 Agarwal, Rajesh & Chapla 1,051 Mishra, Omprakash & Priyadarshini 1,051 Mukherjee, Hemant & Mita 1,051 Sheth, Arun & Ravindra 1,051 Dubey, Prakash & Sunita 1,031 Aryal, Shib & Sugandha 1,021 Kanekal, Ramesh & Visalakshmi 1,016 Singh, Prafulla & Sharmila 1,011 Devulapalli, Sridhar & Nirmala 1,008 Damle, Sagar & Shanti 1,008 Jha, Amitabh & Stacy 1,008 Vivekanandan, Jothiram and Prema 1,008 Adepu, Haricharan & Madhavi 1,001 Ananthanarayanan, Balachandar & Family 1,001 Asthana, Raj & Poonam 1,001 Batra, Ravi & Neera 1,001 Bhasin, Deepak & Rita 1,001 Bhasin, Vinod 1,001 Bhatt, Ravi & Malathi 1,001 Devarajulu, Tirupathi & Rajamani 1,001 Dhere, Ramesh & Asmita 1,001 Dixit, Prakash & Pratima 1,001 Donde, Arvind & Aruna 1,001 Gajavalli, Ramesh & Nagdeepa 1,001 Goyal, Pankaj & Raj 1,001 Jain, Rajesh & Sharad 1,001 Jawahar, Chinnaian & Usha 1,001 Jha, Virendra & Suneeta 1,001 Kadam, Kiran & Anjali 1,001 Kanwal, Ravi & Vinnie 1,001 Komanduri, Krishna & Sunanda 1,001 Kumar Karungulam Family 1,001 Maheswarappa, Dhanaraj & Suma 1,001 Mishra, Brajendra & Deepa 1,001 Nandkumar, Shivkumar & Roopa 1,001 Narahari, Hari & Meera 1,001 Panda, Shiba & Premalata 1,001 Pandey, Nandbihari & Urmila 1,001 Priyanka, Hemamalini & Muthukumarappan 1,001 Rajagopalan, Narayan & Shailaja 1,001 Rakshit, Amitabh & Kavita 1,001 Ramachandran, Venkat & Chitra 1,001 Ray, Indrajit & Indrakshi 1,001 Sathi, Arvind & Neena 1,001 Senthil, Sangeetha & Samyuktha 1,001 Shah, Praful & Geeta 1,001 Sharma, Shripal & Rajni 1,001 Singh, Rupinder & Meenakshi 1,001 Sodani, Saurabh & Shivani 1,001 Sunthankar, Mandar 1,001 Tottempudi, Sitaramaiah & Chandravathi 1,001 Vaithianathan, Ramanathan & Jayanthi 1,001 Agarwal, Pramod & Anita 1,000 Agrawal, Rajesh & Sapna 1,000 Anonymous 3 1,000 Arora, Arun 1,000 Bethanagady, Narasimha Bhat 1,000 Bhargava, Rajat 1,000 Bhatt, Ashok & Shashi 1,000 Devineni, Sreedhar 1,000 Goyal, Rahul & Divya 1,000 Hegde, Ganesh & Vandana 1,000 Honavalli, Chandra & Archana 1,000 Kamasamudram, Ravilochana 1,000 Khatri, Pushp & Sudesh 1,000 Kompala, Dhinakar & Sushila 1,000 Kulkarni, Sandeep & Komal 1,000 Kurse, Ganesh & Roopa 1,000 Mehra, Lalit & Shubha 1,000 Narayanappa, Sadananda & Anitha 1,000 Nimmagadda, Anil & Thushara 1,000 Pejathaya, Rajesh & Sandhya 1,000 Rao, Sudendra & Latha 1,000 Salvekar, Arvind & Revati 1,000 Shankar, Prabhu & Deepa 1,000 Sinha, K. K. & Alpana 1,000 Verma, Sudhir & Neera 1,000

Volume 11, No. 1 Summer 2007 Mandir Vani Page 8 2006 Donors’ List A Action Cleaning Svc. Acharya, Ajit & Sarita Adhikary, Ramakanta & Rita Agarwal, K.L & Kalpana Agarwal, Pramod & Anita Agarwal, Rajesh & Chapla Agarwal, Tarun & Seema Akkina, Ramesh & Judy Akumala. Shiv & Lakshmi Alahan, Vel & Valli Aluri, Satyadev & Kiranmai Aluru, Ravi Anakavur, Murali & Jayalakshmi Anandan, Mahesh Anandaprasad. Lakshmi Anantharaman, Girish Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Niranjan Sharma Apte, Rajeev & Tejaswini Aran, Ketheesch & Nira Archer, Celeste & Shawn Arikera, Srinivasa & Srujana Arora, Manohar & Sharmistha Aryal, Shib & Sugandha Asian Pacific Ayer, Ganesh Balaraman, Viswanathan & Bahirat, Shirish & Pooja Bahl, Yudi & Shivani Bandari, Rajashekhar Visalakshi Banerjee, Bejoy & Runu Bapu, Srinivasa Kallem Basak, Sourabh & Kavita Batra, Ravi & Neera Bhakthavachalam, N & Meera Bharathan, Yosidhara Bhargava, Joshua Dayal Bhasin, Deepak & Rita Bhat, Pawan & Puja Bhatia, Rajesh & Minoo Bhatt, Ravi & Malathi Bhattarai, Suvekshya Bhave, Sanjiv & Anjali Bhuyan, Ganesh & Jacoueline Biswas, Paramita Bommareddy, Sreedhar & Indira Boppudi, Naga Suresh & Padmaja Budhiraja, Arun & Janet Chadha, Shyam & Veena Chandra, Promod & Vimal Chandra, Raja Chandramouli, Janaki Chandranatha, Rakesh & Rasi Chatterjee, Chandan & Rina Chatterjee, Nirmalya & Saroj Chaudhuri, Alpana Cherthedath, Remesh Babu Chetigari, Jagadishwar Chopra, Sanjeev & Nitika Chopra, Surinder & Rashmi Chukkapalli, VJ & Nandita Church, Selina Cuisinart India, Inc (DBA India's Croy, Calvin Daliparthi, Kamalakar Dample, Swati Resturant) Dandapani, R & Uma Dasari, Srinivas & Ritu Dass, Purushottam & Neera Deb, Satyendra & Sima Devanathan, Raghu & Padmapriya Devraj, Venkat Devulapalli, Saikumar & Saritha Devulappalli, Sridhar Dhere, Ramesh & Asmita Dhingra, Sanjay & Karuna Dilip, Kanchan Bala & Brinda Dixit, Prakash & Pratima Donde, Arvind & Aruna Dubey, Prakash & Sunita Enuganti, Shyam Epili, Duryodhan & Sabitri Evergreen Systems, LLC Gaddam, Ravikumar Gadekar, Suhas Gadekar, Sujata Gandhi, Mukesh & Dipika Gandhi, Paul & Romita Gangadharan, Gopalan & Geetha Garimella, Murthy Ghandi, Sunil & Sheetal Ghimire, Karun & Kanchan Ghodekar, Vivek & Roopali Salgas Giri, Aravind &Vidya Giri, Rajendra & Sharada Giri, Sharada Golla, Venkata & Renuka Gopal, Sekar Gorthy, Shekhar Goswami, Dipendra Goyal, Pankaj & Raj Gudavalli, Sreenivas & Sumalatha Gujar, Suryaprakash Gupta, Kuldip & Usha Gupta, A & Arti Gupta, Adesh & Sujata Gupta, Avanish & Archana Gupta, Milan & Jennifer Schmidt Gupta, Samardeep & Toni Lynn Gurung, Sarita Harshavardhan, Reddy Hegde, Vinay & Anita Hingorani, Moti & Roma Houston, Meera Hunasekoppa, Vinayaka India Bazar Indur, Raj Iyengar, & Kalpana Iyer, Nancy Jain, Rajesh & Sharad Jain, Sanjay & Vindra Jakur, Santosh & Sangeeta Jalihah, Rajesh & Citralekha Jama Corporation Jayaraman, Sekar & Asha Jeyabalan, Chidambaram Jha, Mahesh & Subhadra Jobanputra, KP & GK Joshi, Bharatkumar & Illa Juneja, Manoj & Shaloo Kailasam, Kalaiselvi Kaippillil, Raghu Kaja, Nehru & Vidya Kakullavarapu, Veerendra & Pratibha Kalanithi, Venkatesan & Ashalatha Kale, Abhay & Arti Kanagainthiram, Ramani & Sureerat Kanekal, Ramesh Kapoor, Rakesh & Madhu Kashyap, Promila Katamaneni, Sreenivasarao Kataria, Abhay Katta, Sarath & Hemalatha Kattel, Bheem & Sharada Khanna, Anil Khatri, Hiralal & Sudha Khatri, Sudesh & Pushp Khatter, Jagdish & Neeru Killamsetty, Srinivasa & Sreilata Kochhar, Aman Kodavanti, Apparao Kohli, Sahita &Gurpreet Kolhatkar, Kaustubh & Madhuri Kompala, Dhinakar & Sushila Kondam, Sampath Koneru, Mohan venkat Kumar Kothamachu, Rekha Rani Koul, Abhilasha Koul, Inder & Hansi Krishnamoorthy, Priya Krishnaswamy, Arun & Susmita Kulandaivel, Senthil K Kuliar, Liza Kumar, Addanki & Rita Kumar, Anant & Vanitha Kumar, Anil Kumar, Jimmy & Veena Kumar, Lakshman Kumar, Narender Kumar, Satish Kumar, Sunil & Sujata Kunam, Peda & Bhargavi Lakshminarayana,Ravipati Lamichhane, Dinesh & Nira Lankalapalli, Achutananda Law Office of Ravi Kanwal Liberty Building Maintenance, Inc Lohia, Sandeep & Nisha Lotus Technology, Inc Maddala, Aruna Maddali, Srinivas Satya Madisetti, Sumesh & Jeanne Shreve Mahajan, Dattatray & Madhur Mahal, Lakshmi Maharajapuram, Ramesh & Krithiga Malhotra, Deepak & Jyotisna Malhotra, Rakesh & Rita Malhotra, Rashi Malladi, Krishna Mamidala, Ravikumar & Nagamani

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2006 Donors’ List Continued… Mani, Ganpat & Geetha Mani, Pachaivappan Manickam, Manne, Hema Marayanamurthy, Madan Marty, Raghu Mavuloori, Manohara Mazumder, Tarit & Barna Mehta, Nalini The Colorado Retina Mehra, Lalit & Shubha Mehta, Nalin & Nidhi Mekapari, Pattabhi Rami Center Merchant, Asmita Mereddy, Anil & Deepika Mishra, C.P. & Asha Mishra, Brajendra & Deepa Mishra, Omprakash Mishra, Shivakant & Preeti Modi, Paresh & Manjula Monangi, Srinivas Moorthy, Venkat & Lakshmi Mrig, Raj & Laxmi Mukherjee, Hemanta & Mita Mullangi, Sudarsana Mummachi, Senthil Muralidharan, Monagur & Usha Murthy, Krishna & Ratna Murthy, Vasu & Bhagya Muthamsetty, Rajasree Muthu, Mohan & Radha Naganathan, Girish &Purnima Nagireddy, Chandra & Uma Nallapati, Srinivas & Sumana Nanda, Ved & Katharine Narahari, Hari & Meera Narasimhan, Mahesh & Shailaja Narasimhan, Seshamani Narayanan, Mohanan Narayanan, Satish & Prabha Narayanaswamy, Varadarajan Nareddy, Madhusudhan Natarajan, N. K. & Lakshmy Natu, Abhay & Prajakta Nayar, Inder & Reva Nekkanti, Seetha & Madhavi Nuggehalli, Venugopal Oza, Tushar & Sonal Pabbati, Prasad & Aruna Padhiar, Prabhat & Sumitra Palaniappan, Vidhyasmitha Pall, Chandrakant & Nutan Pamulapati, Rama Paradkar, Neelambari Parikh, Chirag Pasupaleti, Narasimhan & Sumitha Patel, Girshkumar & Vibha Patel, Jay & Pramila Patterson, Michael & Dawn Portraits By Piare Mohan Potluri, Mahesh & Neeraja Prabhakaran, Nirmala Prabhu, Vijay & Lata Pradhan, Biyush Man Prevedel, Michael & Kay Pudipeddi, Pavan Puskoor, Satish & Praveena Puvvula, Lakshmi Prasanna Raavicharla, Suresh & Praveena Rajagopalan, Govindarajan & Raghuraman, R & Mala Raj, Ravi Rajagopalan, Rajendram & Asha Lavanya Rajan, Sanjay Ramachandran Ramachandran, Viji Ramakrishnan, Ramachandran Ramamurthy, Rajesh & Vasantha Ramaswamy, Ramgopal & Sudha Ranganna, Keshava Murthy Rangaswamy, Malati Natarajan Ravilochan, Kamasamudram & Rao, Prabhakara & Revathi Rao, Ajitha & Ravishankar Rao, Kumar & Anuradha Chandra Ray, Indrajit & Indrakshi Reddy, Raja & Nirmala Reddy, Surya & Deepa Reddy, V. S. & Vijay Regmi, Uttra Roy, Shantanu Roy, Tara Sankar Sachdeva, Prem & Hans Sakthivelu, Thiyagarajan & Arockia Salvekar, Arvind & Revati Samantarai, Nehru & Rashmita Sametanahalli, Raghavend Sangaran, Ramesh & Krithiga Saran, Vishnu & Eileen Sattenapalli, Ravi & Sarada Saxena, Nidhi & Gyan Seshadri, Sampath Shah, Abhay & Namrata Shah, Gokaldas & Sushila Shah, Gopal & Daksha Shah, Kamal & Anju Shankar, Ganapathy & Sumathi Sharma, Ashok & Narindira Sharma, Chandra & Usha Sharma, Pashupati & Manju Sharma, Rajesh & Shripal Sharma, Rohini Kumar & Nirmala Sharma, Romesh & Ramesh Kumari Shastry, Sanjay & Rakhee Sheth, Ravindra & Arun Shetty, Rajaram & Sonia Shivkumar, Nandakumar Shrestha, Madhu Shrestha, Murari & Bijayee Shrestha, Sharad & Jyoti Shukla, Dinesh & Manisha Siddabattula, Kalyan Sikand, Yash Singh, Bakhshesh & Sarjit Singh, Gayatri Singh, Kavita Singh, Rajiv & Sushma Singh, Thakur & Pushpa Singh, Tony & Suman Singh, Vijay Singh, Vipan Gurpal Singhal, Sanjay & Anjali Sinha, Vinita Smita Merchant Inc Sorcar, Manick & Shikha Sreeprakash, Ambuja Sridhar, Srinivasan & Vidya Sridharan, Meena Srinidhi, Hassan & Prathima Srinivasan, Ravi Srinivasau, Adapa Srivastava, Abhinav & Shaily Srivastava, Ravi & Vinita Srivastava, Sunil Subramaniann, K. G. & Nithya Subraya, Harishkumar & Vasudha Summit Kidney Centers, LLC Talanki, Sridhar Tallamraju, Jhansi Taman, Shashank Tantricmysticism.com, LLC Taste of India Tayal, Manoj & Shalini Telang, Promodh & Smita Thurimella, Ramakrishna & Smitha Tiwari, Shashi & Meera Todd, James & Carolyn Tontalpur, Vidyasagar & Aruna Trans Info Systems, Inc. Tripathi, Sanjay & Vibha Sharma Tummala, Umapathy Tyagi, Akshay & Neeranjana Upadhyay, Raja & Prabha Upadhyaya, Kailash & Aaarti Vallabhanath, Michelle Velpuri, Seshagirirao & Kiranmai Varma, Satya Vashisht, Asha Veehabhadrabpa, M.B. & Shantha Kasula Vendhan, Azhi & Venkata, Prasad Gunturu Venkata, Ravi & Anitha Venkataraman, Raja Venkatesan, Raguveer & Kavita Ventataraman, Harish Verma, Mahendra & Neelima Vijalapura, Ganesh & Shashikala Vijayakumar, Kendai & Subhasri Vinjamuri, Gopala & Usha Vishalakshi, Pidaparthi Voddepalli, Suresh Walia, Deepak Yakkala, Tirupati Rao Yates, Danny & Vicki Yelluripati, Ravi Kumar

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New Temple Fund Contribution Pledge Form

Please join the Community leaders in this noble cause to serve God and our community, and to build a legacy for our children so that they can be aware of our proud heritage! Your generous financial support is urgently needed to buy the land and to design and build the facilities (about three million dollars) during the next three years.

Please fill out the form and send it along with your check:

Payable to: New Temple Fund Address: Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of the Rockies, 8375 South Wadsworth Blvd, Littleton, CO 80128

Your donation is tax deductible (Tax ID # 84-1301209). A contribution receipt will be sent to you in January 2007. May God bless you and your family! ------I pledge to help build the New Temple by becoming a: ---- Sponsor (Total Contribution of $25,000 or more) ---- Patron (Total Contribution of $10,000 to $24,999) ---- Benefactor (Total Contribution of $5,000 to $9,999) ---- Supporter (Total Contribution of $2,500 to $4,999) ---- Member (Total Contribution of $1,000 to $2,499)

I am making this contribution in the name of: (optional) ______

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The balance (if applicable), $______will be paid______(method/date).

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Hindu Temple and Cultural Non Profit Organization Center of the Rockies US Postage Paid Permit No 237 8375 S. Wadsworth Blvd. Littleton, CO Littleton, CO 80128 303-948-9693

Bhoomi Pooja Samaroha Program Location: New Hindu Temple Site: 7200 S. Potomac St, Centennial, CO Day and Time: Saturday, June 23, 2007 from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM, followed by Lunch Prasad and Cultural Program.