e-Vadhyar

Hi... My name is Madhavan Parthasarathy - Vadagalai Iyengar by birth, Chemical Engineer by Profession, American by citizenship and Indian at heart. Having lived in the USA for the last 16 years, I realized the difficulties of practicing the brahminical rituals in a foreign land. Rituals need to be performed at the right time and in the right way and this is always a challenge when you live away from India. After my father passed away in 2009, I found it especially difficult to perform the monthly Tarpan since the Purohit was 10 miles away and driving to and back from the temple on a working day was next to impossible. It was my own experience with this situation that gave rise to the idea of starting the e-Vadhyar service. I am back in India now and find that even in India, people face similar challenges. My family always laid a heavy emphasis on doing the ancestral rites in a proper manner and I hope many will benefit from this service.

After I lost my father some 5 years back, I had to drive to my Purohit's place on the Tharpan days and I would be late going to my work on these days. I decided to use the recorded Tharpan Mantra and requested my family Vadhyar in Chennai to record a generic form of Tharpan and I would write down the sankalpam for each month looking at the Internet for exact timings. But what was available on internet sites was the sankalpam according to the Indian timing. But this wasn't correct since the Nakshatra or thithi or the day Amavasya should be done in USA sometimes differed from India. I had to consult Almanacs and make necessary changes to the Sankalpam. To perform the Tharpan, I had to play the recording, consult the hand written notes and recite the Sankalpam and go back to the recording for the rest of the Tharpan. This resulted in a disjointed performance of the Tharpan and this was not satisfactory.