Heritage

The Divine Draftsman & His Architectural Marvels Lord Viswakarma is the presiding deity of all craftsmen and architects. Son of Brahma, he is the divine draftsman of the whole universe, and the official builder of all the gods’ palaces. Viswakarma is also the designer of all the flying chariots of the gods, and all their…

Yagnopaveedham is the symbol of brahmin and is a must one for male. Basically there are two types of sacred threads depending upon the head or the mudichu. Rudra mudichu and Bramma mudichu. It is convention that those who are  followers of adhi shaivam wears the rudra mudichu and one who follows veera vaishnavam use…

Pronunciation D – pronounce like ‘th’ in ‘the’ d – pronounce like ‘d’ in ‘deep’ s – pronounce like ‘s’ in ‘suck’ S – pronounce like ‘s’ in ‘sand’ th – pronounce softly like ‘th’ in ‘think’ Ta – pronounce hardly ‘th’ like in ‘vykuntham’ thh – pronounce like ‘th’ in ‘thought’ L – pronounce…

Being one of the members of the community from Andhra Pradesh, I would like to make, the members of the community of the other states, aware of the Viswabrahmin community of Andhra Pradesh. In this endeavour, I wish to place before you all, a brief history of “Srimad Virat Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra Swamy” belong to viswabrahmin…

Pronunciation: S(capital)- like ‘s’ in ‘sand’ s(small)- like ‘s’ in ‘suck’ sh- like ‘sh’ in ‘shoot’  th- like ‘th’(softly) in ‘think’ Th – like ‘th’ in ‘thought’ D- like ‘th’ in ‘the’ Dh – like ‘Dh’ in ‘dharma’ d- like ‘d’ in ‘god’ dh – like ‘dh’ in ‘dhamaruk’ n – like ‘n’ in ‘no’…

One friend from our community has said that his wife (from Brahmin community) is not agreeing to wear the holy thread to his son. And her argument is we should not wear the ‘yagnopaveetham’ (holy thread). “yagnopaveetham paramam pavithramPrajapthih yath sahajam purasthaath” That is yagnopaveetham is created by prajaa pathi.Lord viswakarma is the prajaapathi (this…

Each gothra in our community has to wear a different sign on their fore head using sandal. These were formulated by KALAHASTHI MUNI who also wrote the Viswsabramma Puranam.1. Saanaga rishi Gothra They are followers of rig veda and they must wear thiripundram i.e, three horizontal thick lines approximately six inches length using the right…