Sri Venkateswara Vratham: the Complete Home Ritual, with Ten Chapters of Sacred Story — Romanized Telugu English Instructions

They kept the faith. Only the alphabet was lost. In Trinidad and Guyana, in Mauritius and Durban, in Dallas and Leicester and Melbourne, families have kept this worship alive for generations - while the script it is printed in slipped away. There are many fine vratha kalpams in Telugu. There are very few that a devout person who cannot read Telugu script can actually use. This edition is for those households. Every prayer appears in Roman letters, so it can be chanted correctly by someone who has never read a word of Telugu. Every instruction is in plain English, so a person performing the vratham alone - no elder in the room, no priest available - knows exactly what comes next. The materials list names substitutions you can genuinely buy outside India. Nothing has been shortened, modernised or improved. The sankalpam is the full traditional sankalpam. The ashtottaram is the complete one hundred and eight names. The shodasopachara puja keeps all sixteen services in their proper order. Only the alphabet has changed. Inside this book - The complete puja vidhanam - achamanam, pranayamam, sankalpam, kalasha aradhana and Ganapati puja - The shodasopachara puja, all sixteen services in order - The full Sri Venkateswara Ashtottara Shatanamavali - all 108 names - The vratha katha in ten chapters, in clear English: Bhrigu Maharshi, the anthill on Seshachalam, Vakuladevi, the birth of Padmavati, Srinivasa Kalyanam, the debt of Kubera, and the form of stone - The Sri Venkatesa Mangalasasanam and the Telugu mangala harati - Vayana danam, phalasruti and the udyapana - A pronunciation guide written for people who have never seen Telugu script - Guidance on gotram, tithi and time zones for households outside India - Large, clear type, set to be read during the puja itself For every family that carried this worship across an ocean, and wants to perform it properly again. Om Namo Venkatesaya.