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Balabhavan Class BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO August 2015 BBC Announcements: Balabhavan Coordinators NETRAVATI RIVER Namaste BalaBhavan families: Hope you are all enjoying the Sangeetha Prahalad The Netravati river has its origins in summer break. We are glad our Vidhya Raghunathan Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka State. children got some oppoturnities to Shankar Parasaram This river flows through the famous pilgrimage review the shlokas and Bhajan’s Kumar Gowda [email protected] place Dharmasthala and is considered as one of they learnt. the Holy rivers of India. The river also flowing Important dates on upcoming through the Managalore city and ultimately events: flows into the Arabian Sea. We have August summer camp and Class Coordinators you could register using link The beautiful river drains an area of about below: Super-Senior Class: 1,353 square miles. Earlier in the last century it was known as the Bantwal River; the important https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1soJ- Lavanya Kadiyala 4FfrBuLW3P5m4FWlRuDUEJby6KL1WWu09vL [email protected] town of Bantwal is seen on its banks sSh8/viewform Senior Class: Bala Bhavan field trip for 2015 is Anupama Rajagopalan on Sunday, August 9. We hope to Sushma Natarajan see you all at the field trip. Please [email protected] look out for emails regarding field trip location. Junior Class: As we head into fall, Balabhavan Rajashree Balaji classes for Toddler and Super Venkatesh Krishnan Senior classes will resume on [email protected] September 5th and Junior and Senior classes will resume on Toddler Class: September 12th. Archana Sampath Have a great Summer! Ashvini Yoganarasimha balabhavantoddler@gmail .com The main occupation of the people who BBC Team --------------------------------------- Registration coordinator: have settled on the bank of this river is Kumar Gowda agriculture and fishing. This river is the main August Birthdays: source of water for agriculture during off Toddlers: monsoon. Anvitha Vinoth Kumar Newsletter Coordinator: Mihir Sai Konkapaka Krishna Meduri Many mini hydroelectric projects have been Srikrithi Vudathu [email protected] set up on this river, causing damage to Yamini Nittala environment of this ecologically sensitive Juniors: region; and more projects are in the planning Lakshanya Sankaran ------------------------------------ stages. Sharan Sundaram - Shloka Krishna A recent controversy has arisen, from a Surya Balamurugan Newsletter Editors proposal to change the path of the river so that Vishnu Karkera Murthy the dry land areas above the Western Ghats can Seniors: Anirudh Ramachandran Shreya Shriram be irrigated. Changing the path of the river might lead to unforeseen environmental Shraddha Kadaba disasters according to some experts. Super Seniors: Srinidhi Malavalli Abhinav Ramachandran Pranav Puttaparthi By Prathik Kannan Vainavi Viswanath 9525 Miramar Rd, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 August 2015 Issue 8 1 BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO August 2015 Editors corner SHARAVATHI RIVER Editors Corner WORD SCRAMBLE Mahabharatha Quiz Sharavati river flows entirely in the south Indian state of Karnataka.It 1) Who was the charioteer for the is one of the few westward flowing King Dhritarashtra? Unscramble the following words rivers of India and a major part of the to spell names of characters or places river basin lies in the Western Ghats. A) Krishna in the Ramayana. It`s 132-km journey starts at B) Karna Ambuthirtha and ends up in the C) Sanjaya Arabian Sea on the western coast of D) Arjuna India. 1. DINOARDAM 2) As Gurudhakshina, what was Ekalavya forced to give up? 2. HOYDAAY This is the place where Rama broke a bow to win the hand of Sita. A) His bow and arrows 3. AIBSRHA Ambuthirtha gets its name from the B) His thumb legend when Rama shot at the ground C) His home 4. VAARAN with his Ambu (or bow and arrow) D) His whole hand because Sita wanted water (thirtha) so 5. KNALA that means Ambuthirtha. The result of 3) Which character knew how to Rama`s arrow hitting the ground penetrate the Chakravyuha, but 6. EKIYAKI created Sharavati river. ‘shara’ also did not know how to get out? means arrow, hence the name. 7. AOHPNAKOHSAR A) Abhimanyu B) Arjuna 8. NAHMNAU C) Krishna D) Karna 9. HMALTII 4) Which character had the ability 10. AJNAAK to beat anybody at the game of Dice? ______________________________________ A) Sanjaya Answers: 1. MANDODARI; 2. B) Bhishma AYODHYA; 3. SABHARI; 4. RAVANA; 5. C) Shakuni D) Bhima LANKA; 6. KAIKEYI; 7. In Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, SHOORPANAKHA; 8. HANUMAN; 9. India, Sharavati river falls off a steep 5) Who acted as the Divine MITHILA; 10. JANAKA mountain face of 293m the waterfall is charioteer of Arjuna and recited called Jog falls This waterfall is the the Bhagavad-Gita in the second highest plunge waterfall in Kurukshetra War? India. Topics of the Month A) Krishna The Sharavati river also houses B) Yudhisthira Anika Sharma one of India`s oldest hydroelectric C) Durvasa projects that has been operating since D) Dushasana Prathik Kannan 1948. By Anika Sharma 9525 Miramar Rd, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 August 2015 Issue 8 2 BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO August 2015 Editors corner 9525 Miramar Rd, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 August 2015 Issue 8 3 .
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