Rick Archer wrote: >>From a friend: > >Each day this week I will be sending out the mantra for the planet that >rules that day. Today is Saturday, Saturn's day. His name in Sanskrit is >most commonly Shani. Each planet of course has a lot of names in sanskrit >each name corresponding to a particular quality. This is the beeja or seed >mantra for Saturn. It is to be chanted 17,000 times. This can be done at >the time you are having a yagya done for shani or on your own if you cannot >afford a yagya for him. > >Om Hreem Shreem Graha Chakravartinyay Shainishcharaaya Kleem Aim Saha >Swaahaa > >Sanskrit is pronounced as you see it. A double letter is pronounced like a >single only held longer. So swaahaa is pronounced swawhaw whereas graha is >pronounced with the mouth less open. > > > But westerners often pronounce "Om" like Ahm or rhyming with "calm" when it should rhyme with "home." "Ahm" is a fruit. :)
Then we can also get into the ages long dispute of whether the askshara should end with an "m" sound or "ng." :) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
