BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO September 2015

BBC Announcements: Balabhavan Coordinators CAUVERY RIVER Dear Balabhavan families, Sangeetha Prahalad hope you all had a wonderful Vidhya Raghunathan summer break. During the Shankar Parasaram break many of us enjoyed the Kumar Gowda summer classes and also learnt [email protected] a lot about focussing and relaxation techniques during Class Coordinators the field trip at the Escondido Buddhist monastery. Super -Senior Class: Lavanya Kadiyala Regular Balabhavan classes [email protected] will resume on September 5th for Toddler and Super Senior Senior Class: class and September 12th for Anupama Rajagopalan Junior and Senior Classes. Sushma Natarajan [email protected] By the time the news letter is in your mail boxes, another Junior Class: important email about syllabus Rajashree Balaji preparation for next year Venkatesh Krishnan would have been sent out as [email protected] well. Please help us prepare syllabus for the next year. Toddler Class: Your inputs are valuable and Archana Sampath together we can make Ashvini Yoganarasimha Balabhavan effective for our [email protected] The Cauvery River has a basin area of children.

81,155 km squared. The water in the basin Registration coordinator: supplies four states. These four states are, Tamil BBC Team Kumar Gowda Nadu, who takes 51% of the water. Karnataka, ------who takes 37%, Kerala, who takes 4% and September Birthdays: Newsletter Coordinator: Pondicherry, who takes 1% of the waters. Toddlers: Meduri Raghav Vaidyanathan [email protected] The British controlled both Mysore and Samarth Kaashyap ------Madras for a short period in the middle of the Soumini Kandula Newsletter Editors 19th century. During their regime, numerous Varsha Ram plans were drawn up for the utilization of the Kaveri waters by both states. However, the Seniors: Shreya Shriram drought and subsequent famine in the mid-1870s Advika Ram put a hold on the implementation of these plans. Anika Sharma Srinidhi Malavalli The plans were revived by Mysore in 1881, by Punarvasu Sangam which time Mysore was back in the hands of the Ria Rao Mysore kings, while present day Tamil Sanchita Koppa ------Nadu continued to remain a part of the Madras Shriya Sankaran Topic of the Month Presidency. Vignesh Nydhruva

Anirudh Yadavalli -By Anirudh Yadavalli Super Seniors: Shreya Gopala

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BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO September 2015

Class Schedules Editors corner Class Schedules

9-5-2015 ------Choose the best answer. 9-12-2015 ------

Toddler Class: 1) Where was Krishna born? Junior Class: Story: Story: Krishna Janmashtami - Meena Annamalai A) - Archana Ranganathan Sloka: stotra 1-3 B) Dwaraka Sloka: Revise Ganesha stotram and -Ashvini Yoganarasimha C) Varanasi Ganesha pancharatnam Bhajan: Review Jaya Ganesha, D) Ayodhya - Gayathri Vidyasankar Ganesha Sharanam Bhajan: Review Gowri Nandana -Ramya Radhakrishnan 2) Who was Krishna’s birth mother? gajavadana,and Prathama Ganapathi Super Senior Class: A) Yasodha - Srividhya Ganesh Story: Gnana Yoga B) - Lalitha Kodandapani C) Devaki Senior Class: Shloka: kanakadhaara stotram 1-5 D) Story: Worship of Navagraha - Shanti Kalluri - Prashanth Sharma Bhajan: Review of Kasturi Tilakam; 3) What is the name of the snake whose Sloka: Revise both Ganesha shlokas Gowri Nandana Gajanana head Krishna danced on? learned this year - Gayatri Vidyasankar -Lalitha Krishnamoorthy A) Vasuki Bhajan: Review Gajanana hey ______B) Kalinga shubhanana; Gowri Nandana

C) Jatayu Gajavadana; Sharanam Siddhi Vinayaka D) Garuda 9-19-2015 ------(from last yr) -Chitra Mandyam 4) What is the name of the mountain Toddler Class: which Lord Krishna lifted using only his Story: Ganesha Chaturthi pinky finger? - Karthik Shanmugavadivelu 9-26-2015 ------Shloka: Vasudevasutam devam, A) Meru krishnaaya vaasudevaaya, mookam B) Govardhana Junior Class: karoti vaacaalam C) Himalayas - Shiva Kalpana Story: Ganesha Chaturthi D) Hastinapura - Madhukara Satyanaryana Bhajan: Mahalakshmi Jaganmatha -Manjunath Raju Sloka: Sharada bhujangam 1-4 5) Which of the following is NOT one of - Vijayalakshmi Gujjaiah Krishna’s wives? Super Senior Class: Bhajan: Priye; Review Jagadho Dharini Maatha Story: Kurukshetra battle Day 10-12: A) Satyabhama Passing of Bhishma; Vishnu Sahasra- - Sowmya Sekar B) Rukmini nama: C) Jambavati Senior Class: - Ramanarayanan D) Satyavati Story: Vedic Astrology Shloka: kanakadhaarastotram 6-10 - Seetha Janakiraman - Sheela Ashok Sloka: Sharada bhujangam 1-8 Bhajan: Jag Sukh Karini; Jaya - Narasimha Manda Saraswathy Mahalakshmi (Review Bhajan: Jag sukh karini; Jaya - Lalitha Krishnamoorthy Saraswathy Mahalaksmi

- Sushma Havanagi

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