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Sri:

Srisailesa dayapaathram Deepakthyaathi gunaarnavam!
Yatheendra pravanam vandhe Ranyajamataram munim!!

dasan,

Looking back our poorvaacharya stotramalas or
poorvaacharya granthas what we could possibly see is
that out of the vast knowledge about the grammer and
the philosophy he has, the aacharya would have used
enourmous number of words at different places to
state the same meaning. also would have used one word
which would give many different meanings at many
places(which has to be taken according to
context,which unfortunately becomes the starting
point of some conflict).Also Would have used
particular words instead of the many possibe words for
particular meaning.Also many more like that.

For example if we see for the first type all the 1000
names including narayana is used for perumaan himself
all of them converges to same meaning and also if we
take the gadhyatrayam perumaan will be called many
names like pranathaarthihara etc. All of them will
have the same meaning. This is not bound to names of
perumaal but this is just for example.here the
controversy is rare but can be created easily within
no time if anyone is well versed in tharka(the topic
falls in this category).

The second controversial use as like one word/phrase
to imply many meanings right from brahma sootra "aham
brahmosmi" will always be interpreted differently and
will create a great divide among the shishya kotis.

The third type particular word anywhere for particular
meaning everywhere is for example using "akila" in
sri bashya mangala charanam by swamy emperumanaar.

lets start it step by step.

In the first category lets go to some very basic
grammer( i woudnt call this a grammer but since it is
a part we have to say it is grammer). 

If we take english there are words called synonyms.
for example the words big and huge are synonyms. both
follow the "wh" questions like "how big" and "how
huge". if somebody says big and huge are different
that will be true in one form. Yes in the form that
they contain different letters.

lets take another example the words "phobia" and
"fear" again both are synonymous and of course
different letters.of course we cant use fear after
claustr and make it claustrfear where we use phobia
and making it claustrophobia meaning fear of
heights.but the point is that fear and phobia are
synonyms.

Since english is a very recent language lets leave it
and do not take in as our base.lets take tamil which
is as old as sanskrit itself or was one of the
languages which broke away from it.

What a beauty, we have synonyms here too. the words
"pini"( the three suzhi na) and "noi" both mean the
same word disease. the same way for example other
words like "ucchi","mugadu" all mean the same thing
top or the highest point. also like "parai" and
"murasu" both mean the same big drum.

if we go a bit deep the words "pola" "ponra" "anna"
"maana" "kaduppa" all mean the same.in the place of
one thing we can use anything 
and the meaning will not change. of course the
sentence will change.

why are we seeing this and this mail didnt say
anything about what poorvacharyas said!!!.The folowing
mails will. lets give a small think about what this
mail says. we will see what sanskrit and later what
poorvacharyas have told in the coming mails.

Any misinformation or something wrong adiyen is ready
to correct myself.

adiyen ramanuja dasan,
Nallan Chakravarthy Narashiman.

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