Dear all, I agree with Sri Kasturi Rangan. In fact there are Gayatri mantras for Siva, Skanda, Ganesha, Brahma, Katyayani etc.. apart from Vishnu. (Please refer "Gayatri mantras" section in the chapter "MahaaNarayana Upanishad" in the book "Saswara Veda Mantras" published by Ramakrishna Math.) There are Gayatri mantras for Nrusimha & Garuda also in this section. If I remember the Gayatri mantra for Nrusimha it is as follows: Vajranakhaaya Vidmahe, teekshNa daggashtraaya dhimahi tanno naarasigamha prachodayaat Regards Mohan.R On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 amshuman_k wrote : >Dear bhAgavatAs, > I stumbled onto an old sri-ranga-sri discussion regarding the s'lOka >shuklAmbaradharam vishNum... A proposition was made that this was >addressed to vinAyaka which was countered by lot of srI vaishNavAs. I >request a pramANa for vishNu being described as a 'sashi-varNa' - > 'moon-colored'. >I also noticed a comment by somebody that ganEsha is a non-vedic >deity and he is introduced into tamil nadu during pallava regime. > >If that is true, I request another clarification: >taittriya AraNyaka 10.1.24 has this mantra >"tatpurushAya vidmahe vakratundAya dhImahi >tannO danti: pracodayAt " >This mantra occurs with others addressed to family and extended >family of shiva/shankara :) > >I understand that book X (famously called mahA-nArAyaNa upanishad) >has multiple readings. Do we consider that this book of AraNyakam or >this section is interpolated too after pallava regime? > >Even otherwise, ganEsha mantra occurs in maitrAyaNIya samhita 2.9.1 >with a textual variant as >"tatpurushAya vidmahe hastimukhAya dhImahi >tannO danti: pracodayAt " > >So clearly ganEsha is 'very much vedic'. If we temrproarily supress >maitrAyaNIya samhita evidence and consider mahAnArAyaNa upanishad >reference as interpolation, we run into the problem of demoting >nrsimha as non-vedic too, as I am not aware of mention of nrsimha >(mantram or brAhmaNam discussion) anywhere else in vedic literature. > >I request the opinions of learned members. > >Regards, >Kasturi Rangan .K > > > > >azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > >To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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