What is So Special about the Kalavinka Sparrow, Anyway?
Because of all that comes along with it, the sound of the
kalalvinka sparrow is much more than a sound. It is the beginning of
transformation and of growth. To learn about
the kalavinka sparrow, click here.
In the Words of the Sanghāta:
The Blessed One spoke:
"For a buddha to arise in the world,
supreme joyful effort must be made,
all sentient beings taken into one's care,
and one must teach the Dharma of virtuous action."-
Ārya Sanghāta Sūtra
Pronouncing the Sanskrit Words and Names in the Sanghata
Quite frankly, the most direct way to learn to pronounce those
Sanskrit names and terms in the Sanghata is to listen to someone
pronouncing them correctly. To support reciters in their efforts to
reproduce the
sounds of Buddha's speech as faithfully as possible, this site now
provides audio
files
of all the Sanskrit names and terms that appear in
this text, as well as their proper
Sanskrit
spelling and
meaning. Simply click on the icon next to each Sanskrit term
to hear an
mp3 recording of each word. Click
here to begin listening now.
The pronunciation of the Sanskrit names and
terms has been provided for this site by J. Prabhakara Sastry. Dr.
Sastry is a
traditionally trained Indian pandit, as well as a professor emeritus of
Sanskrit... and the extremely kind Sanskrit teacher of the editor
of this website.
For ease of pronunciation while reciting, the new English translation
adds an accent mark to longer Sanskrit terms, to indicate the syllable
that should be stressed. Longer compound words have been
broken
up with hyphens (in accordance with the rules of Sanskrit grammar, or sandhi).
For ease of recitation, rather than use the Sanskrit
diacritics
(accent marks) that are standard in scholarly works, this translation
follows the Clay
Sanskrit Library (CSL) conventions. To read more about the
conventions used in hyphenating and accenting of the translation of the
Sanghata in
English, you may read the Clay
Sanskrit Library's guide to 'Punctuation
of English.' (pdf)
To view or download a pdf file
containing the below list of names alongside their proper
Sanskrit
diacritics, as well
as links to the audio files, click
here (pdf).
