Simpler Procedure (Impact of Name on Fortune - Part 2)

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Dear Narasimha,

 

Sorry about that. Yes... You are correct ... I do have problems with

grammar ... never my favorite. Never had an liking for languages!

But am gaining interest slowly. Thanks for your patience.

 

Regards,

-Narayan

 

 

 

vedic astrology, "pvr108" <pvr@c...> wrote:

> Dear Narayan,

>

> > However, my knowledge is rather nascent. Now, based on my *new-

> > found* knowledge, it would seem that *Dronacharya* would be

broken

> > into :

> >

> > Drona & charya with ra and ch represnting the Drona & Charya

> > respectively.

>

> You are again wrong. You seem to have a untypical - for you -

amount

> of problem with this.

>

> Vowels are the prana (life) of syllables and consonants the body.

No

> syllable can exist without an vowel and each syllable will consist

of

> exactly one vowel (one prana). The number of syllables in a word

> corresponds to the number of vowels. Dronacharya has o, a, a and a

> (drOnAchAryA). So it has 4 syllables and not two. Let us start

from

> the end and put a boundary before the preceding consonant of each

> vowel. Then we get

>

> dronachar | yA

> drona | chAr | ya

> dro | nA | char | ya

> d | rO | na | char | ya

>

> Here d is not a complete syllable, as it has no vowel. So,

finally,

> it may be clubbed with "ro".

>

> The 4 letters are r, n, ch and y (d | Ro | Na | CHar | Ya).

>

> If you are still confused, here is a shortcut:

>

> Just forget syllables etc. Just look at the vowels (au, ai, oo are

> one vowel and not two). Take the consonant immediately before each

> vowel. Do this for all the vowels. This rule will allow you to get

> the correct sounds for nama rasi.

>

> Understanding how syllables are formed enables you to see the

logic

> behind this rule and also helps you appreciate the rules of

Sanskrit

> chhandas (metrology for poetry), but it is not necessary to apply

the

> rule.

>

> Example:

>

> Take a hypothetical name - Alguntyolischa

>

> Find the vowels in this. I put them in capital letters here -

> AlgUntyOlIschA.

>

> There are exactly 5 separate vowels in this word - a, u, o, i and

a

> (in that order).

>

> Now see the consonant sound immediately preceding each vowel.

>

> There is none before the first a. There is g before u. There is y

> before o, l before i and ch before last a. So take these five.

>

> This procedure should be easy to follow.

>

> More comments:

>

> (1) Some people may mis-pronounce ou in "thousand" as avu. But

that's

> not how most people pronounce it. Most people pronounce the vowel

ou

> correctly. So you cannot take a consonant v there. For that

matter,

> some people may mispronounce it as "thousandu" or "thousanda", but

> the most common pronunciation has no vowel at the end.

Moreover, "s"

> in thousand is not pronounced by most people as "jh". It is closer

> to "j" instead.

>

> If we write it as "thoujand", there are two vowels - ou and a. The

> consonants immediately preceding them are th and j. The numbers

are 7

> and 8.

>

> (2) The name sign is only one aspect of the name. I told you how

to

> see the planet ruling a name based on the first letter. That's

even

> more important. Look at that too.

>

> May Jupiter's light shine on us,

> Narasimha