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Jai Sriman Narayana!

I agree with you regarding the use of the word AD when
refrerring to the year. Why not use the Kaliyuga year.
All you have to do is add 3101 years to the cristian
year (AD) to get the year in the Kali yuga. Kaliyuga
started immedaiately after the disappearance of Lord
Krishna from the earth. Perhaps we should use DK
signifying that the date is after the disappearance of
Lord Krishna. This year it is 5103 DK. In the coming
April it will be 5104 Dk and so on. If at least some
of us start using the year, there is a finite chance
that the next generation will know that there is a
Hindu calander and the dates back to atleast 5000
years (actually it dates back to billions of years).

Jai Sriman Narayana
Narender Reddy


--- Parthasarati Dileepan <dileepan@xxxx> wrote:
> Dear Sri S.V. Samy and readers of SRS:
> 
> namo narayana!
> 
> Thank you for your note.
> 
> My note was only about the meaning of the English
> word cited. Hope not to side track the interesting
> discussion.
> 
> Many use English words without realizing what they
> actually mean. For instance, when citing
> chronology,
> many use the suffix AD, like 1500 AD, etc. But, AD
> here means "in the year of my Lord Jesus Christ".
> This is particularly grievous for Sri Vaishnavas for
> whom
> there is no one but Sriman Narayana. As
> Kulasekarazhvar
> says, like the patient who loves the doctor who
> treats him
> with painful cuts and burns, even if Sriman Narayana
> gives
> us sorrow and grief, for us there is no one but
> Sriman
> Narayana. Therefore, we must never use the
> abbreviation AD.
> In stead, use the chronology suffixes, BCE and CE,
> with
> BCE = Before Common Era and CE = Common Era. BCE
> and CE
> are generally well accepted and understood
> abbreviations.
> 
> Coming back to Agnostic, it is quite probable there
> are no equivalent word in Tamil/Sanskrit for
> Agnostic.
> It is equally probable that there is no equivalent
> word for Atheist and Theist. The dictionary meaning
> of Atheist is, "one who denies the existence of
> God".
> For Theist the meaning is, "belief in the existence
> of a god or gods". The usual translation for
> Atheist
> is "nAStikan", but it is not correct. nAStikan only
> means one who rejects Vedas. Thus, there are many
> devout theists who are nAStikAs. In fact we could
> say that most Theists are nAStikAs.
> 
> regards,
> 
> -- dileepan
> 
> p.s.
> 
> At 03:52 PM 8/27/2002 +0500, you wrote:
> >Hari Om.
> 
> In our tradition it is customary not the spell out
> praNavam in public.
> 
> 
> 


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