srImathE rAmAnujAya namah. dear bhAgavathAs, We are glad to report some progress that has been made regarding the Library project. We recently purchased a lot of very very valuable books (dating from 1920 - 1960) for the library. These include about 200 issues of the invaluable periodical "rAmANujan" published by svAmi. {In kAnchipuram, we use the word svAmi to denote just one person - srI PBA svAmi; now we have around 350 issues of this magazine; there are bound to be many duplicates that we intend to sort out in the next few weeks; we believe that there are a total of 630 issues}. Among those books are a few of his commentaries and a copy of his autobiography. One of these days, we will start summarizing pieces of his extensive biography that contains details about the AchAryAs that our religion had in the first half of this century as well. A request to members of the group. Please spread the message that we are collecting sampradAya books for a public library project. We either will buy the books (if the owner wants to sell them, as in the cases above), or xerox the books and return the original if the owner wishes to retain them. svAmi's books are especially welcome. He had written 420 books (excluding the monthly periodicals - rAmAnujan and vaidika manOhara) by 1956! He was in this world till 1982 or so. We can only imagine how many works he did in his lifetime. We are dutibouond to collect and maintain as many of his works as available today. To give an example of His divine abilities, we have a copy of a commentary he wrote on rAmAnuja nUrrandhAdhi when he was 12! - That commentary is incredible in its depth and its content. Please help our sampradAyam by spreading the message to your relatives. Most of these books are in a very dilapidated state and will last only a few more years. We have to digitize them somehow so that we can preserve the content. Anyone known to you that used to get svAmi's books are a potential source {especially if you have seen old wooden almyrahs in their homes :)}. AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam, adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan, varadhan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
Home Page
http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia |
ramanuja-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To subscribe to the list |