Jammalamadaka Balatripurasundari Devi garu of Guntur is no more. She donated her entire property to construct a huge 'Tyagaraja Mandiram' which was the venue of all major music festivals for over half a century! She conducted Tyagaraja Aradhana regularly.
Atma Shanti 🙏
She was a great Rama Bhaktha. She wanted to create another Thiruvaiyaru type Aradhana in Guntur. She turned her property, worth few crores, into a huge auditorium. Behind that a guesthouse for visiting musicians. A great host, gentle soul whose devotion is very inspiring! 🙏
I had absolutely no clue there was a video! This was my last visit to Guntur. I visited her Tyagaraja Mandiram and it was evening time when she offered her daily prayers. I am still searching for the song she sang that day! Thank you @Indishout for this!
Every evening she would sing songs and worship the Murtis. Take them around the place in a little palanquin on special occasions. She was truly like another Bangalore Nagarathnamma. What a sad loss this is! 😔🙏
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With great sadness we got the news that the dreaded virus took our dear friend, eminent Sanskrit scholar Shri Venkataramana. Venkata, as we fondly addressed him, was serving as the principal of the Medha Dakshinamurthy Sanskrit College in Gokarna.
Atma Shanti 🙏 😔
Venkata studied Vyakarana from the great Brahmasri Kompella Satyanarayana Shastri Garu in Rajamundry. He passed the Tenali and Rajamundry Maha Parikshas. He went on to study Nyaya Shastra from Prof KE Devanathan in Tirupathi. He wrote numerous research papers.
He was blessed by the Sringeri Jagadguru with the honour of 'Vyakarana and Nyaya Vidwat Pravara'. He was also blessed by Pejawara Shri for his extensive research on Dwaita. He was born in 1980! Not an age to go! 😭
The grand old matron of Thillaisthanam Agraharam, in Thiruvaiyaru, Smt Rukmani Ramachandran made her final exit. She was 94!
For years and years, whenever we went for the Tyagaraja Aradhana, she was our gentle host, welcoming musicians at all times.
Atma Shanti 🙏
She must have seen at least 5 generations of great musicians. Hailing from a family of great Vedic scholars, she belonged to the Thillaisthanam Sishya Parampara of the Saint. Her Jatavallabar House, is where generations of scholars have performed the difficult Jata Parayanam.
She witnessed close to a century of history of Thiruvaiyaru and the surrounding regions. She trained both her daughters Vidushi Rama Kausalya and Mrs Meenakshi Rajmohan in music.
A great devotee of Lord Rama, Rukmani Ammal had a fabulous memory.
#Covid claimed my dear friend Mr Shanbagh of my favourite Premier Bookshop!😔
This was a rare occasion when I got him to pose outside his den. All good things must come to an end and so did this! Sigh!
May you find yourself in a paradise of books, sir!
Atma Shanti 🙏
You could walk into his bookshop at any time and ask him for any title. He would go around the book walls he built and fish it out for you with a smile. Only he knew what books were where in that mind-boggling layout inside his shop. One could only marvel at his wide knowledge!
Across the road to his shop was a little hole in the wall where Coffee Board sold coffee powder and some freshly brewed coffee. 10 ₹ a cup.
I've spent countless afternoons with Shanbagh sipping coffee and discussing books.
Auspicious morning of Magha Shukla Ekadasi when Bheeshma, the grand old Pitamaha of the Mahabharata, revealed the greatness of Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam to the Pandavas, as he lay on a bed of arrows in the war of Kurukshetra. Today is also popular as Bheeshma Ekadasi.
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Ok! Let me explain why and what.
In Shanthi Parva of Mahabharatam, we know Bheeshma decided to leave his mortal coil on the 8th phase in bright fortnight of Magha, Magha Shukla Ashtami, also known as #BheeshmaAshtami.
Bheeshma was not his original name. He was King Devavrata. Due to the uncompromising Pratigya he took, he was addressed as 'Bheeshma'. He was also a master of Vedas and Shastras. Hence, out of everyone in the Kuru clan, he was addressed as "Bheeshmacharya" with reverence. 🙏