Amma's Sraththam - Year 2008

Amma's Sraththam - 2008

Earlier, on 30 June 2005 I had written about the Sraththam. We three brothers (Sugavanam, Jayaraman, and self) perform the sraththams of our parents every year at Chennai; our elder brother Sundaresan performs at Dapodi, Pune.

Amma's Thithi comes sometime in June or July, and appa's in August or September every year. Till 29 June 2005, we were performing these two Thithis at Sugavanam's place in Thiruvanmiyur. Starting from 15 Sep 2005, we are doing it at our house at Karpagam Avenue, Raja Annamalaipuram.

This year (2008) amma's thithi came on Thursday 26 June 2008. The earlier day (25 June) morning 1015, Padma akka and Athimber arrived at our house for the ceremony. Arun came at 4-45 PM and we two went to South Mada veedhi and purchased Vaazhai Ilai, pushpam, vazhaippazham and a few vegetables.

We had purchased all the grocery items, butter, all vegetables, Vaathiyar Saamaankal like Varatti a week before. From Ambika Appalam Depot, Mylapore and in and around South Mada Veedhi.

Padma akka, Vijaya, and I cut the vegetables in the evening. Veshti - Pudavai were washed and dried. Savithri came at 9-30 PM from Hosur with Ramesh.

On 26th, the day of Sraththam, Vijaya got up by 5 AM and started the work. Jayaraman, Kalyani, Poornima came by 6-45, followed by Sugavanam. Mangalam came with Sugavanam. Saroja came at 08-15 Then Arun, Gayathri, Sowmya, Sriram came. Then Ramamurthy athimber, Vijay, Sridhar, Abhilash, Sandhya (surprise additions from delhi), and finally Sudha.

Sastrigal came by 9-30 and started the rites at 9-45. I performed the Sraththam with participation from Sugavanam and Jayaraman. After 2 hours, the Brahmanals had their lunch by 12 noon and the rituals got over by 12-30.

Everyone - Padma, Saroja, Savithri, Mangalam, Kalyani, Sudha and ofcourse Vijaya were extremely busy in cooking and allied jobs. Savithri and Vijaya were the chief architects ! All of us ate by 2 PM.

Then in the evening everyone left; Sugavanam left by 9-45 PM after dinner here. Padma - athimber stayed back for the night.

Thus the Sraththam of Amma went off well. total expenses Rs 2050/- shared by three of us. We brothers gave blouse bits to our sisters, and Sudha.

rajappa
27 June 2008 -- 6PM

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