Appa's Sraththam - 2010
Appa's Thithi is Aavani, Sukla, Dwadasi. This year (2010) appa's thithi came on Saturday, 21 August.
This is the second sraththam we performed at Besantnagar house. Sraththam followed Varalakshmi Poojai, on the very next day. Hectic work, naturally. Vijaya and I purchased all the items like grocery, vegetables, fruits, Vetrilai, pushpam, Vennai, and particularly Vazhai Ilai from around Besantnagar. This time we could get the long variety of pudalangkaai from KPN. For Amma's sraththam, we couldn't get. I had ordered Vazhai Ilai from the beach-front cartwala who promptly delivered on the morning of sraththam. The Ilais were large sized and cheap.
I and Vijaya cut all the vegetables by 8PM the previous day. We were all set.
On 21st, we got up by 4-45 in the morning and Vijaya started work. Jayaraman, Kalyani, Purnima came by 6-30. Then Gayathri and later Sugavanam. Sruti was already in the house.
This sraththam was "notable" because none of our sisters could attend it. Padma was not well, Saroja has gone to UK, Savithri in Hosur, and Mangalam went to another function. We three brothers were only present.
Sastrigal came by 10 and started the rites at 10-30. I performed the Sraththam. After 2 hours, the Brahmanals had their lunch by 12-15 and the rituals got over by 12-45. Kalyani, Gayathri, and ofcourse Vijaya were extremely busy in cooking and allied jobs. All of us ate by 1-30 PM.
Then Jayaraman left by 4, Sugavanam by 7, Satish at 8-20. Arun and family left after dinner.
Thus the Sraththam of Appa went off well. Expenses are rising every time; today it was Rs. 1720.00. Today, there were 12 adults + 3 children besides 2 Brahmanals for the meals.
We two, arun,g,s,s,arv,k,ad,sat,sru,sug,jay 3
rajappa
22 Aug 2010, 6-30PM
Appa's Thithi is Aavani, Sukla, Dwadasi. This year (2010) appa's thithi came on Saturday, 21 August.
This is the second sraththam we performed at Besantnagar house. Sraththam followed Varalakshmi Poojai, on the very next day. Hectic work, naturally. Vijaya and I purchased all the items like grocery, vegetables, fruits, Vetrilai, pushpam, Vennai, and particularly Vazhai Ilai from around Besantnagar. This time we could get the long variety of pudalangkaai from KPN. For Amma's sraththam, we couldn't get. I had ordered Vazhai Ilai from the beach-front cartwala who promptly delivered on the morning of sraththam. The Ilais were large sized and cheap.
I and Vijaya cut all the vegetables by 8PM the previous day. We were all set.
On 21st, we got up by 4-45 in the morning and Vijaya started work. Jayaraman, Kalyani, Purnima came by 6-30. Then Gayathri and later Sugavanam. Sruti was already in the house.
This sraththam was "notable" because none of our sisters could attend it. Padma was not well, Saroja has gone to UK, Savithri in Hosur, and Mangalam went to another function. We three brothers were only present.
Sastrigal came by 10 and started the rites at 10-30. I performed the Sraththam. After 2 hours, the Brahmanals had their lunch by 12-15 and the rituals got over by 12-45. Kalyani, Gayathri, and ofcourse Vijaya were extremely busy in cooking and allied jobs. All of us ate by 1-30 PM.
Then Jayaraman left by 4, Sugavanam by 7, Satish at 8-20. Arun and family left after dinner.
Thus the Sraththam of Appa went off well. Expenses are rising every time; today it was Rs. 1720.00. Today, there were 12 adults + 3 children besides 2 Brahmanals for the meals.
We two, arun,g,s,s,arv,k,ad,sat,sru,sug,jay 3
rajappa
22 Aug 2010, 6-30PM