Links
There are quite a number of sites & blogs on Sri Vaishnavam. Here are a few which are worth visiting. Do take a moment and visit the sites and do not forget to leave your comments and suggestions to the site owners. Your comments & suggestions encourage the owners to develop the sites.
www.srirangapankajam.com
This site is the brain-child of Sri Murali Battar, a descendant of Sri Gopala Bhat Goswami Miras Archakar at Srirangam Temple. The site is regularly updated with news from the Sri Rangam temple. Photos of events in the temple are also regularly uploaded.
www.acharya.org
This site contains a really vast amount of information and is also regularly updated. Read more about the site in one of my blog posts. You can also listen to Upanyasams online in this site. A MUST VISIT site.
www.vedics.net
A regularly updated site created by Sri Vaishnavas in The United States. Free e-Books, e-Journals, Tele Upanyasams are available in the site. Dig through the various links and you are sure to find a lot of useful information. A re-design would help the visitors easily access all the contents.
www.srivaishnavasri.com
This is the website of the famous publishing house Sri Vaishnava Sri. It contains information about the their publications, pictures and more. But the site is less regularly updated and tad poor on design & functionality.
www.ramanuja.org
This site has lots of information on works of Sri Ramanujar, Sri Manavala Mamuni, Sri Vedanta Desikar and more. The site contains details and summaries on works like Sri-Bhashya, Vedarthasangraha, Divya Prabandham and lots more. Information on Alwars, famous vaishnavite temples and many more are available. But this site has not been updated for a long time. Kindly e-mail the site owner to update the site more often.
www.srivaishnava.org
The best thing about the above site is its collection of rare books in pdf format, which are free for download (http://www.srivaishnava.org/rare/).
www.kinchitkaramtrust.org
As the name implies this is the site of the Kinchitkaram Trust of Sri Velukkudi Krishnan Swamy. The site is very engaging and shows a lot of promise. Some pages are still under construction. This site also has a blog. Definitely a MUST VISIT.
what are the sub sects like munithreyam pancharathram vaikasanam
how do we know wehich we belong to
why there is confusing dates for festivals from gurus on like srijayanthi deepavali
can’t all of them have agreement on common date
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Sri Vasudevan,
Simply put, unlike other cultures, which are young and newly formed, Indian Culture is very ancient and very very diverse. And also we shouldn’t forget that we are a people of 1 Billion with atleast a million sects and hence such minor differences are bound to occur. Reasons might be that, unlike western cultures, we didn’t have exclusive Historians to document the daily life and happenings of ancient times and what we know about our past has primarily come through Oral communication from time immemorial.
Focusing on your question, you can ask your Acharya or and elder member of your family about the sect you belong to. The calendar in this site is based on Sri Rangam panchagam, as formulated by Sri Ramanauja. I hope I have cleared your doubts.
Adiyean.