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Acknowledgements
I
would like to express my heart felt thanks and acknowledge my
indebtedness to the following who played a major role in the making of
this website and whose works I have used on this site.
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To the Almighty God without whose blessings no auspicious work is ever
possible.
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To Ms. Geeta Press Gorakhpur, whose flawlessly published stotras
improved my life and my religious pursuits, and whose published
stotras were constantly referred to cross check when in doubt and
whose Ramacharita Manas I have put on my site.
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To the Devine Life Society of Hrikesh for the Bhagavd Gita of Swami
Paramahamsa Shivananda.
* To Kamlesh
Patel, Gitamrta.org for the the superb job of recording the Bhagavad
Gita MP3 in English, Hindi, Spanish, French & Arabic.
* For the various MP3
Stotras on this site - to Swami Brahmananda of Chinmaya Mission,
S.P.Balasubramanyam, the Bombay Sisters, Anuradha Podwal, the
Challakere Brothers, Manu and Hariom Sharan.
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Maharishi University of Management, one of the best sites for Sanskrit
scriptures in Devanagari.
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To Ms. Sri Ramakrishna Math publications, whose religious publications
were another great source of inspiration and guidance for me.
Particularly I would like to thank Swami Tapasyananda of Ms. Sri
Ramakrishna Math publications, whose word to word Sanskrit to English
translation of Vishnu Sahasranama stotra and Sri Lalita Sahasranama
stotra are reproduced in this website.
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To sacredtexts.com which is an excellent source of scriptures.
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To sanskritdocuments.com which is doing a superb job of putting many
scriptures, stotras etc. on net.
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To celextel.org for its excellent collection of Upanishads.
* To urday.com for
excellent collection of puranas.
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To Dale Steinhauser & his wonderful site sanskrit.safire.com for
Devanagari Stotras.
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To hubcom.com tantric section and shivashakti.com for excellent material on tantra.
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To My Purohit.com for the wonderful translation and meaning of Sri
Rudram.
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For the data on Ayurveda we would like to acknowledge our indebtedness
to: My Purohit.com, Jiva Ayurveda.com, Ayurvedic-herbs.com and
Ayurveda.com for the invaluable information provided on their
websites, which we partly reproduced in our ayurveda section.
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To Vastucompass.com for the wonderful pictures & data on Vastu
Sastra.
* To surasa.net,
malayalavedhi.com and kannadaaudio.com for the excellent Carnatic
music audio links.
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To my Nepal supplier Mukunda of nepalirudraksha.com for providing me with some excellent
pictures of Rudrakshas and Saligramas from his site
nepalirudraksha.com
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To Templenet.com for excellent data on temples and religious places.
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To rudraksharatna.com for valuable scriptural quotations about
Saligramas and pictures of the 12 jyotirlingas..
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To M/s Geovision Software, whose Parashara Light astrology software I
used to make the various charts, ephemeris, pictures and whose data
about planets, nakshatras, signs, glossary of astrology etc I used in
the various sections of this website. A superb software for
the beginners and the advanced level astrologers alike and the most
user friendly one.
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M/s Future Point, the famous Indian astrology software company for
Ramacharita Mans and Bio-Rhythm softwares.
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To Sree Gaurang Das whose data bank of the Sashtras was of great help
and reduced my work load.
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To Mr.K.N.Rao, my relative and the world famous astrologer who taught
me many secrets and predictive techniques of astrology.
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To my friend and fellow panel astrologer Sri S.Ganesh who encouraged
and helped me in my Sri Chakra worship.
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To V.Subramanya Sastri, Prof. P.S.Sastri, R.
Santhanam, B. Suryanarayana Rao, B.V.Raman, Ranjan Publications &
Sagar Publications whose books I have put in the Sashtras Library for
free reading by those who are interested in learning the great works
of this great science.
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To Brian Conrad for his wonderful Junior Jyotish software and the
Lagna and Rasi calculators. A very accurate, light and useful
software, which can be carried in a floppy. You can download and
purchase this software from:
http://www.jyotishtools.com/windows.htm
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To my wife Anjana Tata, who patiently tolerated my extra hours at the
computer and managed the house and helped me with cross-checking of
the Hindi and Devanagiri scripts.
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To my daughter Swati Tata, who allowed me to "capture her
computer" and whose website browsing experience was an excellent
sounding board for me while designing this site. ("Daddy,
that colour is awful!!...."May be you understand what you are
writing but its not clear. A novice must understand this lesson,
otherwise its noo good!!)
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To my friend Suparna, who introduced me to website astrology
predictions.
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To Astrospeak, the astrology division of Indiatimes.com, the famous
Times of India website, whose astrology panel membership was a great
rewarding experience for me. Particularly to their senior manager Mr.
Alok Bhatnagar, a rare man to find in these days of rat race and whose
knowledge, sincerity and honesty reflect the culture of our great
bygone Gandhian days.
Om
Tat Sat
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