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Sanskrit Learning. Key take away points

from Man Ki Bat (मनोगतम्) Episode 1

स्नानार्थम् उपयुज्यमानः प्रोच्छः Towel 

आस्तरणम् Bedsheet

उपधानम् Pillow

अपकर्षः Discount

अभिज्ञान​म् Recognition, Remembrance, Knowledge

सिंही Lioness 

शावक Yong child of an animal

मदीय My, Mine, My own (Adjective) 

चितः चिता चितम्  Selected, Chosen 

उत Or / Else

उत न  Or not

8th VIBHAKTI भ्रातः पितः कर्तः 

विधि लिंग 

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3rd October 2014

I was aware about only college road, during my initial few years at Nadiad. Later on, I researched various reading materials and explored Nadiad. I came across many less known facts about Nadiad. I presented my speech about Nadiad as part of oral communication subject in MBA. 

Nadiad Means...

N - Novel

A - Aspired

D - Divine

I - Impressive

A - Admired By All

D - Dignified

Nadiad is Known for: 

• Its old name was નટીપ્રદ Natiadra / Natiprada and later on નટપુર  Natpur. 
• Once upon a time, Nadiad was known as city of scholars SAAKSHAR-BHOOMI. સાક્ષર ભૂમિ  As Nadiad was the center of literary and cultural activities in Gujarat in the late 19th century.
• Center place of Charotar (Charotar literally means 'More Beautiful')

Key Facts

* First ST bus stop (known as old ST bus stop during 1990s). 

* Vegetarian Puf was invented at Shreyas Bakery, Nadiad

* Mogul Azam movies's popular song "Mohe Nadhat Pe Nandlal" was written by  Nadiad's Rasakavi Radhunath Brahmbhat 

* 9 BHAAGOL : Entry/exit towards 9 different cities / villages. All BHAAGOL had gates

1. AMADAAVAADI અમદાવાદી ભાગોળ

2. MARIDAA મરીડા ભાગોળ

3. SALOON સલૂણ ભાગોળ

4. CHAKALAASHI ચકલાશી ભાગોળ

5. DOOMRAL ડુમરાલ ભાગોળ

6. PIJA પીજ ભાગોળ

7. DABHAAN ડભાણ  ભાગોળ

8. KODI-VAADAA કોળી-વાડા ની ભાગોળ 

9. BILODARAA બિલોદરા ભાગોળ  

* 9 Lakes : 

1. Kund કુંડ 

2. SERA સેર 

3. RATANA રતન 

4. KHETAA ખેતા 

5. MULESHWARA મૂળેશ્વર 

6. OONDEVAAL ઊંડેવાળ 

7. MALAAV મલાવ 

8. NAANAA KAAMANAATH's SMASHAAN VAALU TALAAV નાના કામનાથ નું સ્મશાન વાળું તળાવ 

9. KALAKAA MAATAA NI TALAAVADI કાળકા માતાની તળાવડી 

* Birthplace of scholars in literature (SAAKSHAR સાક્ષર )

1. Govardhanram Tripathi ગોવર્ધનરામ ત્રિપાઠી. Author of Saraswati Chandra Novel. There is a Bollywood movie also based on this novel, with same name. Remember the song? FOOL TUMHE BHEJAA HAI KHAT ME...? 

2. Manilal Dvivedi મણિલાલ દ્વિવેદી, 

3. Balashankar Kanthariya બાલાશંકર કંથારીયા, ,

4. Manshukhram Tripathi  મનસુખરામ ત્રિપાઠી, 

1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

2. Indulal Yagnik ઇન્દુલાલ યાજ્ઞિક

3. Ambalal Jani અંબાલાલ જાની

4. Chandrashankar Pandya ચંદ્રશંકર પંડ્યા

5. Bakul Tripathi બકુલ ત્રિપાઠી Gujarat's legendary comedian

6. Ex-CM of Gujarat Babubhai Jashbhai Patel

Places worth to visit

* A. Sau. Daahi Lakshmi Library (SAMADI CHAKALA) in memory of wife of Mana:Sukhram Tripathi. It has more than 46000 books and 1600 manuscripts since 12th century in Sanskrit, Magadhi, Hindi, Gujarati

* Santram Temple: Santram Maharj is incarnation of Lord Dattatray. The temple runs many social services. In 1990s, It was also providing change for Indian currency notes. Now, this is era of UPI and QR Code. Santram Maharaj is like DSP of Nadiad, as He imparts ethics and values in Nadiadi people. Here GuruPurnima , MAHAA month full moon day and many other festivals are celebrated. It has 11 large halls. 

* Santram DERI/dERI. So many people visit it on every Thursday. 

* Mai Temple. A big statue of Lord Shiva. Near the railway line. (Another branch of this temple is on college road.) YANTRA PUJAA is performed at only two places in entire India. This temple is one of them. 

* Viththal Girls School: Training for becoming self dependent

* Hindu Anaathaashram. I visited this place, after returning from industrial visit to GE Lighting (SEEMA bulbs and Tubes). 

* Baalakanji-Baari (BAALAKAANJI BAADI in Sindhi means VAADI of children)

* Hari Om Ashram by saint Pujya MOTAA. ( I did one week silence SAADHANAA here). 

* MUKTI DHAAM crematorium 

* Townhall. I visited it to attend (1) poets meet and (2) a program of MAAN માણ (musical instrument) playing

* Deaf and Dumb school

* Vedaant Bhavan (at Kansaraa Waad)

* Laakhi mosque ( at Vahora Waad)

* Shri Paisa VaaLaa Vaid NU DAVAAKHAANU

* Saradar Patel SMRUTI BHAVAN. It has 200 years old records

* Sports Complex

* Nadiad is famous for many hospitals, Industries, Colleges, Temples. I have not included all of them here. I am not sure, about present situation of above places also. 

* Newly added attraction BAPS Swaminarayan Temple , at "Yogi Farm", PIPALAGA Road. 

Reference: 

* Abhiyaan Weekly Magazine. Issue 18th December 1995

* Charotar SarvaSangra. KHAND PAHELO, VIBHAAG BIJO. 

First time I am writing Travel blog. This is about my recent visit to Kalady, Kerala.

Kalady means footprint. Footprint of Adi Shankaracharya. The Poorna river followed Adi Shankaracharya, wherever He goes. Now Poorna rive is renamed as Periyar river. (The footprint reminded me about Jaeger tracing. It is a distributed tracing platform released as open source by Uber Technologies. It captures footprint of communication among microservices.)

Coming back to subject. There must be enough materials about all city, sightseeing places, etc. I am just sharing here, my experience, photos, videos and take away points. 

I visited Kalady to attend Advance Meditation Course at The Art of Living Ashram, Kalady. I noticed "Adi Sankara Keerthi Sthambha Mandapam" on the way from Railway Station to Ashram. The Ashram is really nice place. When Guruji Sri Sri Ravishankar came to ashram to inaugurate, He acknowledge that this land has special positive vibrations. It is miniature version of The Art of Living Bangalore ashram. Here, meditation Mantap is amazing. Just sit there, close eyes and you easily enters in the world of meditation. Nice full size painting of Radha Krishna. Have a look: 

The course was awesome, as usual. The special attraction were:

* birth place of Adi Shankaracharya

* NADI PUJA (worshiping the Poorna river) 

* GAU PUJA (worshiping the cow)

* sightseeing 

 The people at Ashram, perform regular NADI PUJA, GAU PUJA, RUDRA PUJA, GURU PUJA etc. We also attended the same. Here are few photos about NADI PUJA

and GuaPuja. 

Watch this video to know more about Gau Puja. 

Vallamkali: boat race, is Kerala's famous tradition. Samskrit Bharati has a nice Sanskrit song, on the tune of 'song played during boat race'. I sang that Sanskrit song during travelling to Lower Sholayar dam. Here is an old video of the song. 

Here are few photos of Lower Sholayar dam trip.

On first day, before silence starts, we visited "Adi Sankara Keerthi Sthambha Mandapam". 

We saw 3D pictures about life story of Adi Sankaracharya. I really felt proud to be at India and being Indian. Such a great scholar, person Adi Sankaracharya walked on this land. He was real architect of modern India. He visited pilgrimage places across India, spread ADVIATA knowledge. 

Some of the pictures reminded me (1) Pandit Mandan Misra and Trotakacharya related episodes of Upnishad Ganga TV serial on Doordarshan. 

(2) Gurupuja chanting. 

We also visited Janmabhoomi Kshetra. 

At Janmabhoomi Kshetra, some BHRAMCHAARIs were chanting in a group. We visted beautiful temples crocodile GHAAT etc. 

There was a nice DHANVANTARI temple, at just walkable distance from Ashram. 

Next to Ashram, there is a pineapples farm. Have a look

Our course was just before ONAM festival. We celebrated ONAM also.  To be in Kerala during Onam festival is like, to be in Gujarat during Navaratri festival. Local people : men, women and kids visited ashram in colorful traditional dress, danced, played and celebrated. We participated silently. We had Flower Rangolis (Pookkalam) and special food Onam sadya (feast). 

On the last day of course, we visited a temple, and had boat riding at nearby lake. Some of us, did shopping. 

Next day, we attended Rudra Puja at ashram. 

Some of my advance course classmates had blissful DARSHAN of  Guruvayur temple. I visited Kalady and Kochi city. I visited Sri Ramakrishna Advaita Ashram. It has its own school also in same campus. 

Nice Prasdam of fruits at Sri Ramakrishna Advaita Ashram. 

Lakshmi Bhavan restaurant is really good place, to have vegetarian food with reasonable price. I strongly recommend the place. Many people have appreciated it at Google map.

Lakshmi Bhavan restaurants is near Sanskrit University, Kalady Junction. 

While travelling towards Kochi city, I realised that greenery in Bangalore is nothing compare to Kochi. In middle of green forest, there are big buildings. I reached metro station and bought pass for whole day. I could not visit famous Shankar temple, as it was closed. Chinmay mission was also closed, due to Onam festival.

There are many offers, discount at Lulu mall. Let's see inside India's largest mall.

Have a look to Onam Celebration at LuLu mall. 

Apart from Lulu mall, I visited Rainbow hanging bridge. 

There are around 50 places to visit in Kochi. I selected few of them based on my interest. The Kochi airport is really unique. The best part is, it is powered by solar energy. There is solar energy farm near the airport. 

Note:

I provided Google Map link, wherever possible. One can access many photos from Google map. I have added selifie photos in this blog. I have avoided group photos as well, respecting privacy of my Advance Course Meditation classmates

So, how is my first travelling blog? Comments, suggestions are always welcome.