Prepared by Dr. K. Thilagawathi Introduction Soma vaaram is the term given to ‘Monday’ in Sanskrit; in Tamil it is called ‘thinggaL kizhamai’; when said together it will be pronounced as ‘thinggatkizhamai’. The moon is commonly called as ‘chandhiran’ or ‘nilaa’; it is also referred to as ‘madhi’ or ‘soma’ or ‘thinggaL’. It can be seen how all these three languages acknowledge the day as the day auspicious to the moon, when English calls it Monday, Sanskrit refers to it as ‘so

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