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BBC Announcements: Balabhava n Coordinators HARIVAMSA PURANA Lat ha Sundar Ramanavami Pooja Venkat Maddipatla The Harivamsa is widely considered by most BB will be celebrating [email protected] Hindus as an appendix to one of the most well Ramanavami Pooja on April known epics in Indian literature, the 8th at 4.00pm. Parents please attend the pooja with the kids . As an appendix to the and help them practice the Electronic Communication Mahabharata the Harivamsa is not one of the and bhajans Cooordinator 18 parvas but is widely regarded by most daily at home. You must have Rama Srinivas scholars to be closer to a purana, a religious already received the pooja [email protected] text. The Harivamsa is not known to have been handouts by now. Please created by one person but rather is the request by email to us in case collection of many different authors. However, you have not received one and Class Coordinators according to texts, it has been don’t forget to bring it to the attributed to the sage . The most likely temple on the day of the puja. Super -Senior Class: reason that the Harivamsa is equated with the

Padmini Mylavarpu Mahabharata is because it is said that they had Bhajan Volunteers please Latha Rajkumar both been recited to , during the attend the training classes on [email protected] same ritual by . Satudays 4-5pm. Please Senior Class: While both these texts contain some of request for Bhajan CD’s from Vasantha Madavi Sudhakar the same Brahmic legends and rituals, the vast the BB coordinators. Nalini Venugopal majority of their content is different. [email protected] Harivamsa has been regarded as an important Announcements on Summer source of information on the origin of Visnu’s Camps and Field Trips will be Junior Class: incarnation Krsna. The composition of the made shortly. Please look out Hema Rangaswamy Harivamsa is made up of 16,374 verses and for these emails and enroll Anupama Rajagopalan divided into three chapters knowns as parvas: your kids in these camps. [email protected] Harivamsaparvan, theVisnupurana and the Bhavisyaparvan. Parents and kids please leave Toddler Class: your footwear on the shoe Aparna Vemuri Harivamsaparvan means the lineage of rack or in case of overflow on Vandana Santhanam , Hari being another name for . This the left side of the temple [email protected] first chapter describes the creation of the entrance.

cosmos and the legendary history of the kings Registration coordinators: of the Solar and Lunar dynasties leading up to BBC TEAM Krishnaswamy Panneer Selvam the birth of . Vinsupurana deals almost [email protected] exclusively with Krishna, the incarnation of the April Birthdays:

god Vishnu. It recounts the history of Krishna Newsletter Coordinator: down to the events prior to the Mahabharata. Toddler: Krishna Meduri: Bhavisyaparvan means the chapter of the Pranav Jayachandran [email protected] future and it provides the description of Kali Juniors:

Yuga. Kavya Raamkumar Festivals of the Month: Seniors: The Harivamsa is an important text Srujan Gutta Please visit: because it contains accounts of Krishna not Reetesh Sudhakar www.shiva-vishnu.org for found in any other literature Sumana Srinivas more details Super Seniors:

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Story: Sudhama - Krishna relieves Story: Story of his friend/devotee Sudhama from Vijayalakshmi Gujjaiah poverty Sloka: Sutham Padmaja Gadde Rajashri Balaji Sloka: Achyutashtakam 4-6 Bhajan: Bhavani Ma (pg Hema Kalyanaraman 45); Review Rama Garuda Purana is one of the Vishnu Bhajan: Review -Ramachandra . It is in the form of a dialogue Bhajans Prabhu between Vishnu and Garuda, the King of Rajashri Balaji Birds. This Purana deals with astronomy, (pg 15), Bhaja Mana (pg 16); medicine, grammar, and gem stone structure Anantha kalyana (pg 15) Super Senior Class: and qualities. The Garuda Purana has Srilekha Krishnamurthy/ nineteen thousand shlokas. It is a medium- Chandrasekhar Sundarraman Story: Garuda Puranam sized Purana. The latter half of this Purana Senior Class: Latha Sundar deals with life after death. Following this is Story: Ashfaqulla Khan Sloka: Subrahmanya Bhujangam an account of funeral procedures, including Rashmi/Madukara 25-30 rituals, the astrological timing of the post- Sloka: Shiva sadakshara stotram & Latha Chandrasekaran death observances, and ritual gifts. The Bilvashtakam Hindus of north-India generally read this Bhajan: Review of Rama Bhajans Rama Srinivas Purana while cremating the bodies of the Bharathy Tridandam; Bhajan: Jag sukh Karini (pg48) dead. Aswini Sangam Garuda Purana tells about different Latha Sundar types of hells and about what deeds should ------be done to avoid them. The final part of this 4-28-2012 ------4-21-2012 ------Purana is an appeal to self-knowledge as a Junior Class: Toddler Class: key to liberation. This has given great Story: - Vishnu in the form importance to the origin of Garuda. There of Lord Story: Story of Krishna are nineteen thousand verses describing the Rama redeems Ahalya from the Gayathri Vidyashankar ways to the Lord. Garuda Purana explains Curse Sloka: Ananyashcintayanto maam the makeup of the physical body as well as Prasanna Kannan the subtle body with the six Chakras, and Gayathri Vidyashankar Sloka: Achyutashtakam 7-9 advises that we breathe 21600 times during Bhajan: Harey Gopala Srilekha 24 hours and that each inhaling and exhaling Harey (pg 26) be made into an act of japa mala with such Krishnamurthy/ Latha Sundar mantra as Hare Ram. Chandrasekhar Sundarraman Once, on being requested by sage Bhajan: Sharanam Siddhi Vinayaka Super Senior Class: Kashyap, Garuda narrated the divine tales of (pg.10); Madhurapuri Nilaye Garuda Purana to him. Sage Kashyap had (pg.50) Story: Review Garuda Puranam once brought a dead tree back to life and Hema Rangaswamy Latha Sundar Garuda too had brought numerous dead Senior Class: Sloka: Subrahmanya Bhujangam creatures back to life with the help of Garudi Story: Yudhistira 31-33 (Revise completely) Vidya- a sacred mantra found in Garuda Seema Madan Purana. This book should be given as gift Rama Srinivas Sloka: Namaramayana along with an image in gold of a swan to get Bhajan: Nandana (pg 31) Sangeetha Prahalad prosperity. Latha Sundar; Anandhi Bhajan: Anantha Kalyana (pg 15) Krishnamoorthy -- Tejas Srinivasan Hema Kalyanaraman

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KURMA PURANA Questions of the Month Questions of the Month Purana is one of the major eighteen 1. Which is the longest 1. What is Rama’s janma Puranas. It is believed to have been narrated by Indian river ? (birth star)? What Lord Vishnu to the sage , and it contains The significance of Ganesh the details about the Kurma avatar. Narada a. Godavari was the ‘thithi’? Chaturthi…...... continued later stated the Purana to Suta ji. Lord Vishnu b. had stated the Purana, in the regions below the c. Brahmaputra Ganapathy is known as earth, to and the rishis in the d. Yamuna the master of (Buddhi) September Promotions: proximity of Sakra. knowledge and (Siddhi)

achievement. A challenge The following children are Essence of Kurma Avatar 2. Which river is believed to was once thrown to brothers promoted to the next class be the daughter of the Ganapathy and Karthikeya by effective September 2009. In the Puranas, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu mountain king, Himavat? Sage Narada. The challenge 2. What was the name of the descended as the Kurma to restore the mystic was whoever went around Senior to Super Senior: a. Krishna boatman who ferried Rama, nectar or the amrita to mankind along with the the globe first would have Sakshi Madan essence of life and truth as well as other b. Ganga the fruit first. Karthikeya , and Lakshmana across the Keshav Tadimeti precious things needful to humanity, which had c. Godavari went around the world which Janani Hariharan Ganga? been lost. Vishnu ordered the Gods to churn the d. Kaveri took quite some time while Sankaran Ramnarayanan sea of milk so that they might procure once Ganapathy went round his more these precious things, and he promised to parents thrice and claimed Junior to Senior: become the tortoise on which the mountain the fruit. The logic he gave Sarthak Madan Mandara should rest in the form of a churning was that since his parents Rohith Sudhakar stick. Out of the sea of churned milk arose the represented the universe he Sukruth Kadaba 14 precious things, and with these the gods won had gone round them. Aruna Sudarshan their authority over the demons once more. Shrea Chari Traditionally, the Ganesh Vinod Krishnamoorthy 3. Which is the muddiest icon is sculpted out of earth Tejas Srinivasan river in the world? taken from nearby one’s

a. Nile River, Africa home for the Ganesha Toddler to Junior: 3. What was the name of the Chathurthi puja. After b. Amazon River, South Suravi Hingorani bow that gave worshipping the divinity in Malaika Sriram America Rama? this earth icon, it is returned Shravanthi Bala c. Huang He, China -- to Earth by immersing it in a Pranavi Maddipatla d. Ganga, India nearby body of water. This --Siya Sharma cycle represented the cycle New Admissions: of creation and dissolution in 4. Which river joins the river Nature. Juniors: Newsletter Editors Ganga at Prayag? Deepali Yedulapuram a. Yamuna Aditi Anand By Vikram Thridandam Kamakshi Ramanarayanan b. Krishna Shamini Sowpurnica Chandran Ananya Thridandam Babu Keerti Tadimeti c. Godavari d. Kaveri Toddlers ------Topics of the Month Nitya Naik Answers: Answers: ------Amogh Havanagi 1. Punarvasu; Navami Please send your Pramod Shastry Shreya Gopala 1. b 2. Guha 2. b suggestions/comments on Sanjay Mahesh Bharadwaj Siya Sharma this newsletter to Sahana Gopalan 3. Vishnu Danush 3. c Tejas Srinivasan 4. a [email protected] Meena Annamalai

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