Meaning of 'Sarangapani' - temple in Kumbakonam

[Sai Susarla]

There is a temple called "Sarangapani' in Kumbakonam of sheSha-shaayi viShNu.

But I thought sAraNGga-pANi means shiva - one who holds a deer in his hand.

What is the meaning of saaranga-paaNi that connects it to Vishnu?

Is it a distortion of shaarnga-paaNi (one who wields the shaarnga-dhanu)?

- Sai.

[Nagaraj Paturi]

 Yes,   śārṅgapāṇi  śārṅga = dhanus

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Nagaraj Paturi

 

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

 

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

 

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

 

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )

 

 

 

[Gowrishankar Arunachalam]

Hi,

Confusion is probably because in Tamil there is only cha. all the variants in devanagri are represented with only one form cha.Only in pronunciation difference is made.

सस्नेहम्
Gowrishankar
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Sai Susarla <sai.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Sudha Raghuraman]

शार्ङ्गः पाणौ सस्य सः (विष्णुः)शार्ङ्गपाणिः
सारंगः पाणौ यस्य सः (शिवः)सारंगपाणिः

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[Hnbhat B.R.]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Sudha Raghuraman <susa...@gmail.com> wrote:

शार्ङ्गः पाणौ सस्य सः (विष्णुः)शार्ङ्गपाणिः
सारंगः पाणौ यस्य सः (शिवः)सारंगपाणिः

In fact, for शा and सा there is one letter "cha" read in both ways. And in conjunct letter, epenthesis a is added "a:" is added. Hence शार्ङ्ग will be read as सारङ्ग creating confusion and it is already cleared by Mr. Nagaraja. In this case it is used for विष्णु as already mentioned by Sarala. It is possibility confirmed as the Tamil pronoiunciation is common for both.

 

[Sadagopan V]

In Tamil script, श and स may be represented by same alphabet, even though the pronunciation is different for these two letters. Equally, one may observe that in Tamil it is very rare for three consonants to occur together without an intervening vowel. This causes matra (time duration of pronounciation) difference in Tamil when you vocalize one of the consonants (र).  Then "Sharnga" and "Saaranga" both have same matra duration and sound similar

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[Pramod Kulkarni]

शार्ङ्ग विष्णो: धनुः

[KN.Ramesh]

Slightly off the topic ,in carnatic music there is a raga called saarangaa. heard the word saaranga means having all the colors.. as told by Violinist Sriram parasuram in one of his lecture demonstrations in IIT, Chennai.

How to interpret saaranga here?

Can we say having all angas ( saara ang - in hindi)?

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Sriram parasuram was probably keeping the folk etymology of the musical instrument Saarangi (sau = 100 + rang = color ) in mind. 

According to some musicians, the word sarangi is a combination of two words ‘seh’(Persian equivalent of three) and ‘rangi’ (Persian equivalent of colored) corrupted as sarangi. The term seh-rangi represents the three melody strings. However the most common folk etymology is that sarangi is derived from 'sol rang'(a hundred colours) indicating its adaptability to many styles of vocal music, its flexible tunability, and its ability to produce a large palette of tonal colour and emotional nuance.

This rang = color based etymology does not suit the raaga in general and Carnatic raaga in particular. 

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[KN.Ramesh]

 Yes he was telling of 100 colours sau rang...

Now it is clear.

Thanks a lot Nagaraj ji.

On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 13:10:15 UTC+5:30, Sai wrote:

[Anand Ghurye]

I thought Sarang to mean Varah , that the Kirat was holding while debating with Arjun .

[Arvind_Kolhatkar]

सारङ्गास्ते जललवमुच: सूचयिष्यन्ति मार्गम् - पूर्वमेघ २१.

मल्लिनाथ on this - ’सारङ्गश्चातके भृङ्गे कुरङ्गे च मतङ्गजे इति विश्व:’

Arvind Kolhatkar.