Plan to put Vedas, Upanishads on website

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Plan to put Vedas, Upanishads on website

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI : The Vedica Sangeeta Foundation, which has planned to

celebrate its fourth anniversary on Saturday, would take up the task

of recording the chanting of Vedas and Upanishads and host it on the

website.

 

Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Foundation's founder and

trustee A K Ramamurthy said the project was estimated to cost around

Rs 2 crore. While appealing to the public to donate generously for

the ambitious project, he stressed the need for protecting and

preserving the Vedas "at least now."

 

The Foundation trustee K Jayaraman said there were around 1131 Vedic

Sakhas in vogue some 5,000 years ago and now there were only 9 to 10

Sakhas.

 

In a bid to resuscitate the Vedas with all its variations, the

Foundation had planned to get them chanted by erudite Vedic scholars

and digitally record them in CD and host them on a website.

 

"The aim is to take the Vedas to common man around the globe," he

said.

 

The TTD Tirupathi Executive Officer, A P V N Sharma, would inaugurate

the anniversary celebrations to be held at Tattvaloka in Teynampet.

 

The Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami would preside.

 

On the occasion, the Foundation would honour a scholar G

Balasubramania Ganapatigal, Mr Ramamurthy added.

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