Last year, I had posted about how the sign read something else. If I recollect it said Kapaliswarar Tank East Sewer Street. Now the sewer has gone but look at Kapali!
A priest who saw me taking the pic came and lamented about falling standards, all the while spitting on the road!
lol…the name board says Kaba”lies”warar, as in here lies kabali 😀
What’s that after “Tank” and above “ST.”? Looks like “SQ”.
It is SQ short for Square which was earlier Sewer
Ah. Thanks.
I am sure you have heard of #kogul in Twitter. Obvious dig at the absence of allaphonic variations in Tamil characters.
Namskaaram!
This is because we Hindus all over Bharat have lost touch with our roots.
Kapali has become Kabali!
Had we learnt Samskritam properly we would have SPASHTA UCHCHAARANAM not say JanaGi,SivaGami,SarasvaDi,
SayamGaale,Gobalan,GoBikrishna, ShanGaran,RavindranaDan!
This is also seen when our quality Carnatic singers sing Kritis and make such sad presentations by mispronouncing!
Our Carnatic musicians DO NOT PAY any heed to the language and pronunciation and so the meaning gets changed.
It is indeed such a pity that we have forgotten the very basics of Uchchaaranam which has been so very important for us throughout the ages.
After Recitation of every Samskrita shlokam there is a short Kshama praarthana.
Forgiveness is sought by reciting the kShamaa praarthana.
There are two components to it. The first component goes like this:
yadhakShara padaBraShTaM maatraaheenaM tu yad bhavEt ||
tatsarvaM kShamyataaM dEva naarayaNa namOstutE ||
If any mistakes are made in pronouncing the letters(akShara), words(pada) or metre(maatra),
Oh Narayana I bow to You, please forgive me for all my mistakes.
As you have stated the lamenting purohit spitting on the road all along while in conversation with you!
A Brahmin spitting on the road whereas he was the repository of TANAH_SHUDDHI AND MANAH_SHUDDHI!
Hell would have been let loose if you had just remarked about his spitting!
Many time we as listening ‘rasikas’ have thought of pointing out to our erstwhile musicians about taking care of pronunciation but we dare not because it would be directly taken on as an ‘attack’ on their personalities!
So we are what we are!And shall remain thus if we ‘do not learn to see us as others see us( and hear us)’!!!
And it is never too late to learn.
Warm regards,
Vijaya Chandramouli