Tuesday, July 23, 2019
The birth of Sri Vishnu Sahasra Nama - The 1008 Names of Sri Maha.
As directed by the Lord, he meets Yudishtra. At their meeting, Yudhistira presented Bhishma with six questions.
kimEkam dhaivatam lokE?
Who is the greatest Lord in the world?
2. stuvantam kam prApnuyuh mAnavah subham?
By glorifying whom, can man attain peace and prosperity?
4. kO dharmah sarva dharmANaam bhavatah paramO matah?
What is, in thy opinion, the greatest Dharma?
6.
Bhishma responded by reciting the one thousand names now hailed as the Vishnu Shasranama, and reminded him that either by meditating on these names or by invoking the names through archana (Offering), our minds can be lifted to higher consciousness.
VishNu SahasranAmam consists of 142 slokas. Excepting 13 slokas at the beginning and 22 at the end, the remaining 107 slokas contain the thousandnames of God.
prasanna-vadanam dhyAyet sarva-vighnopaSAntaye.
[ (For the eradication of all obstructions) One should meditate upon vishNu Who is clad in white robes, Who has a moonlike lustre, Who has four arms and Who has a beneficient face. ]
vyAsam vasishta-naptAram Sakteh pautram akalmasham
namo vai Brahma-nidhaye vAsishtAya namo namaH.
[ My repeated salutations to vyAsa who is a form of vishNu and to vishNu who is a form of vyAsa- sage vyAsa, who is a descendent of vasishta and who is a treasure of brahman, (i.
e. vedas).]
avikArAya SuddhAya nityAya paramAtmane
yudhishThiraH SAntanavam punar-evAbhya-bhAshata.
[ sri vaiSampAyana said: "After hearing all froms of dharma capable of effecting complete purification, yudhishThira, still unsatisfied, questioned the son of Santanu as follows": ]
YudhishThira uvAca-
kimekam daivatam loke kim vApyekam parAyaNam
dhyAyan stuvan namasyamS-ca yajamAnas-tam-eva-ca.
[That worshipper will be free from all sorrows who devoutly worships and meditates on that Undecaying Being, as also praises Him and makes prostrations to Him. ]
anAdi-nidhanam vishNum sarva-loka-maheSvaram
paramam yo mahad brahma paramam yaH parAyanam.
[He is the supreme light of consciousness. He is the supreme controller of everything. He is the supreme All-pervading Being. He is the support of everything. ]
pavitrAnAm pavitam yo mangalAnAm ca mangalam
yasmimS-ca pralayam yAnti punareva yuga-kshye.
[He is the One from whom all beings come into existence at the beginning of a cycle of time, and He is also the One into whom they all dissolve at the end of the cycle.]
tasya loka-pradhAnasya jagan nAthasya bhUpate
vishNor nAma-sahasram me SRNu pApa-bhay'Apaham.
[Hear from me the hymn that is constituted of a 'thousand names' of that vishNu who is the master of the universe, who is the subject of discourse of all scriptures, and who is the eraser of all sins and fear of samsAra.]
yAni nAmAni gauNAni vikhyAtAni maHAtmanaH
RishibhiH pari-gItAni tAni vashyAmi bhUtaye.
[I am giving for the benefit of all those names of His which are far-famed, which are indicative of His attributes, and which find a place in the exalted hymns of the Rshis."]
vishNoHr nAma-sahasrasya veda-vyAso mahA-muniH
aneka-rUpa-daity-Ant- am namAmi purushottamam.
[I bow to vishNu, the victorious, the All-pervading, the Mighty, the Lord of All, the Enemy of daityas (demons) of many forms and the Best of persons. ]
asya sri vishNoH divya sahara-nAma-stotra-mahA-mantra- sya
sri veda-vyAso bhagavAn RishiH, anushtup Chandah,
sri mahA-vishNuH paramAtmA sriman-nArAyaNo devatA
amritAmSUdbhavo bhAnuriti bIjam
devakInandanaH srashteti SaktiH
udbhavah kshobhano deva-iti paramo mantraH
Sankha-bHrt nandakI cakrIti kIlakam
SArnga-dhanvA gadhA-dhara-iti astram
rathAnga-pANiH akshobhyah-iti netram
tri-sAmA sAmagah sAmeti kavacham
Anandam para-brahmeti yoniH
rituh sudarsanah kAleti dig-bandhaH
sri visva-rUpa iti dhyAnam
chitram ramramyate tam tribhuvana-vapusham vishNum Isam namAmi.
[I bow to Lord vishNu who has the three worlds as His body. The Earth is His feet, and the sky His navel. Wind is His breath, and the Sun and the Moon are His eyes. Directions are His ears, and the Heaven is His head. Fire is His face and ocean His abdomen. In Him is situated the universe with diverse kinds of Gods, men, birds, cattle, serpents, gandharvas and daityas (demons)- all sporting in a charming way.]
Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya:
SantAkAram bhujaga-sayanam padmanAbham sureSam
viSvAdhAram gagana-sadRSam megha-varNam SubhAngam
lakshmi-kAntam kamala-nayanam yogibhir dhyAna-gamyam
vishNum vande sarva-lokaika-nAtham.
[I prostrate before vishNu, the one Lord of the worlds, blue as the cloud and clothed in yellow robes. His chest is marked by the mole known as srivatsa. His body is resplendent with kaustubha gem. He is surrounded by holy persons. And he has wide eyes like lotuses.]
Namah samasta bhutanam-adi-bhutaya bhubrite
namAmi vishNum SirasA catur-bhujam.
chayayam parijatasya hemasimhasanopari asinamambusdasyamamayataksamal- ankrtam
candrananam caturbahum srivatsankita vaksasam rukmini satyabhamabhyam sahitam krsnamasraya
[I bow down my head before the four-handed vishNu who sports in His hand the Sankha and the discuss, who is adorned with a crown and ear-pendants, who wears a yellow cloth, whose eyes resemble a lotus and whose chest is beautified by many necklaces and the kaustubha mark.]
VISHNU SAHASRANAMA STOTRAM:
Om vishvam vishnur-vashatkaro bhuta-bhavya-bhavat-prabhuh
Bhu- takrud bhutabhrud bhavo bhutatma bhuta-bhavanah ..1
Vishnur: He who pervades every thing.
Bhuta-bhavya-bhavat-prab- huh: The one who is the master and beyond the past, present and the future.
Bhutabhrud: One who supports or sustains or governs the universe.
Bhutatma: The essence of all beings.
Putatma: One whose nature is purity/who is purity
Muktanam parama gatih: The highest goal of the liberated ones.
Purusha: One who abides in the body or pura.
Kshetrajno: The knower of the field or body.
Yogo: One attainable through Yoga.
Pradhana-purushesvarah: The master of pradhana or Prakruti and Purusha or Jiva.
Shirman: One on whose chest the goddess Shri always dwells.
Purushottamah: The greatest among all Purushas
Sarvah sarvah sivah sthanur-bhutadir-nidhir-avyaya- h
Sambhavo bhavano bharta prabhavah prabhur-isvarah ..4
Sarvah: Destroyer. Sivah: One pure.
Bhutadir: Source of all elements or existing things.
Sambhavo: One born out of His own will as incarnation.
Bharta: One who supports the universe as its substratum.
Prabhur: One who is an adept in all rites.
Svayambhuh: One who exists by Himself, uncaused by any other.
Adityah: The golden-hued person in the sun’s orb.
Mahasvanah: One from whom comes the great sound – the Veda.
Dhata: One who is the support of the universe.
Dhaturuttamah: The ultimate support of every thing.
Aprameyo hrishikesah padma-nabho~mara-prabhuh
Visvak- arma manustvashta sthavishtah sthaviro-dhruvah ..6
Hrishikesah: The master of the senses or He under whose control the senses subsist.
Amara-prabhuh: The master of Amaras or the deathless ones, i.e. the Devas.
Manu: He who thinks.
Sthavishtah: He who excels in everything in bulk or substantiality.
Agrahyah: One who cannot be grasped by the organs or knowledge or conceived by the mind.
Krishno: The existence-Knowledge-Bliss.
Prat- ardanah: Destroyer of all at the time of cosmic dissolution.
Trikakubdhama: He who is the support (dharma) of the three regions above, below and in the middle.
Isanah: He who controls and regulates everything.
Prano: The Supreme Being.
Sreshthah: One deserving the highest praise.
Hiranyagarbho: One who is Atman of even Brahma the creator.
Madhavo: The Consort of Ma or Mahalakshmi or one who is fit to be known through Madhu-Vidya.
Ishvara: The Omnipotent Being.
Dhanvi: One armed with bow. Medhavi: He who has great intelligence capable of grasping all texts.
Kramah: Vishnu is called Kramah, because He is the cause of Kramana or crossing of the ocean of samsara by devotees, or because from Him all Krama or manifestation of the universe, has taken place.
Duradharsah: One whom none (Asuras) can overcome. Krutajnah: One who knows everything about what has been done (Kruta) by Jivas. Also one who is pleased even with those who offer such simple offerings as leaves, flowers, fruits and water.
Atmavan: One established in his own greatness i.e. requiring no other support than Himself.
Suresah sharanam sharma vishvaretah prajabhavah
Ahah samvasaro vyalah pratyayah sarvadarshanah …10
Saranam: One who removes the sorrows of those in distress.
Vishvaretah: The seed of the universe.
Ahah: Luminous one.
Vyalah: Being ungraspable like a serpent, He is called Vyalah.
Sarvadarshanah: One with eyes everywhere. As the Lord has assumed all forms, the eye-sight of all beings is His.
Ajah sarveshvarah siddhah siddhih sarvadir acyutah
Vrushakapir ameyatma sarva-yoga-vinihshrutah …11
Sarveshvarah: The Lord of all Lords or the supreme Lord.
Siddhih: One who is of the nature of Consciousness in all.
Achyutah: One who never lost and will never lose his inherent nature and powers.
Ameyatma: One whose form or nature cannot be measured and determined.
Vasur: One in whom all beings dwell and one who dwells in all beings.
Satyah: One whose nature is Truth.
Sammitah: This name and the previous (samatma) occurring together, can be split in two ways – as samatma sammitah and as samatma asammitah.
Amoghah: One whose worship will never go in vain, but will bear ample fruits.
Vrushakarma: One whose actions are according to vrushas i.e. Dharma.
Rudro: One who makes all beings cry at the time of cosmic dissolution.
Babhrur: One who governs the world.
Shuchi sravah:: One whose names and glories are very holy and purifying to be heard.
Shashvata-sthanur: One who is both eternal and firmly established, unchanging.
Mahatapah: The austerity connected with creation, which is of the nature of knowledge is of great potency.
Sarvagah sarva-vid-bhanur vishvaksheno janardanah
Vedo vedavid avyango vedango vedavit kavih..14
Sarva-vid-bhanur: One who is omniscient and illumines everything.
Janardanah: One who inflicts suffering on evil men.
Vedavid: One who knows the Veda and its meaning.
Vedango: He to whom the Vedas stand as organs.
Kavih: One who sees everything.
Lokadhyakshah suradhyaksho dharmadhyakshah krutakrutah
Chaturatma chaturvyuhas chaturdamstras chatur-bhujah ..15
Suradhyaksho: One who is the overlord of the protecting Divinities of all regions.
Krutakrutah: One who is an effect in the form of the worlds and also a non-effect as their cause.
Chaturvyuhas: One who adopts a fourfold manifestation.
Chaturbhujah: One with four arms.
Bhrajishnur-bhojanam bhokta sahishnur jagad-adhijah
Anagho vijayo jeta vishva-yonih punar-vasuh ..16
Bhojanam: Prakruti or Maya is called Bhojanam or what is enjoyed by the Lord.
Sahishnur: As He suppresses Asuras like Kiranyaksha, He is Sahishnu.
Anagho: The sinless one.
Jeta: One who is naturally victorious over beings, i.e. superior to all beings.
Punar-vasuh: One who dwells again and again in the bodies as the Jivas.
Upendro vamanah pramshur amoghah suchir urjitah
Atindrah samgrahah sargo dhrutatma niyamo yamah ..17
Vamanah: One who, in the form of Vamana (dwarf), went begging to Bali.
Amoghah: One whose acts do not go in vain.
Urjitah: One of infinite strength.
Samgrahah: One who is of the subtle form of the universe to be created.
Niyamo: One who appoints His creatures in particular stations.
Vedyo: One who has to be known by those who aspire for Mokshas.
Sada-yogi: One who is ever experienceble, being ever existent.
Madhavo: One who is the Lord or Master of Ma or knowledge.
Atindriyo: One who is not knowable by the senses.
Mahotsaho: One who is ever busy in the work of creation, sustentation and dissolution.
Mahabuddir: The wisest among the wise
Mahasaktir: One with great resources of strength and skill.
Anirdesyavapuh: One who cannot be indicated to another as: `He is this’, because He cannot be objectively known.
Ameyatma: The Spirit with intelligence that cannot be measured by any one.
Maheshvaso: One equipped with the great bow.
Shrinivasah: One on whose chest the Goddess Shri, eternal in nature, dwells.
Aniruddhah: One who has never been obstructed by any one or anything from manifesting in various forms.
Govindo: Gau means words. Thou pervadest all words, giving them power. Therefore sages call the Govinda.
Marchir: The supreme power and impressiveness seen in persons endowed with such qualities.
Hamsah: One who removes the fear of Samsara from those who practise the sense of identity with Him.
Bhujagottamah: One who is the greatest among those who move on Bhujas or arms, that is, serpents. The great serpents like Ananta and Vasuki are the powers of Vishnu, so he has come to have this name.
Sutapah: One who performs rigorous austerities at Badarikashrama as Nara and Narayana.
Prajapatih: The father of all beings, who are His children.
Amrutyuh sarva-druk simhah sandhata sandhiman sthirah
Ajo durmarshanah shasta vishrutatma surariha ..22
Sarva-druk: One who sees the Karmas of all Jivas through His inherent wisdom.
Sandhata: One who unites the Jivas with the fruits of their actions.
Sthirah: One who is always of the same nature.
Durmarshanah: One whose might the Asuras cannot bear.
Vishrutatma: One who is specially known through signifying terms like Truth, Knowledge etc.
Gurur: One who is the teacher of all forms of knowledge.
Dhama: It means brilliance.
Satya-parakamah: One of unfailing valour.
Animishah: One who is ever awake.
Vachaspatir-udaradhih: Being the master of Vak or word i.e. knowledge, He is called so. As his intellect perceives everything, He is Udaradhih. Both these epithets together constitute one name.
Agranir gramanih shriman nyayo neta samiranah
Sahsra-murdha vishvatma sahasraksha sahasrapat ..24
Gramanih: One who has the command over Bhutagrama or the collectivity of all beings.
Nyayo: The consistency which runs through all ways of knowing and which leads one to the truth of Non-duality.
Samiranah: One who in the form of breath keeps all living beings functioning.
Vishvatma: The soul of the universe.
Sahasrapat: One with a thousand, i.e. innumerable legs.
Avrtano nivrutatma samvrutah sampramardanah
Ahah samvartako vahnir anilo dharani-dharah ..25
Nivrutatma: One whose being is free or untouched by the bondage of Samsara.
Sampramardanah: One who delivers destructive blows on all beings through His Vibhutis (power manifestation like Rudra, Yama etc.).
Vahnir: One who as fire carries the offerings made to the Devas in sacrifices.
Dhanani dharah: One who supports the worlds, Adisesha, elephants of the quarters etc.
Suprasadah prasannatma vishva-dhrug vishva-bhug vibhuh
Sat-karta sat-krutah sadhur jahnur narayano narah ..26
Prasannatma: One whose mind is never contaminated by Rajas or Tamas.Vishva-dhrug: One who holds the universe by his power.
Vibhuh: One who becomes many from Hiranyagarbha downwards.
Sat-krutah: One who is adored even by those who deserve adoration.
Jahnuh: One who dissolves all beings in oneself at the time of dissolution.
Narah: He directs everything, the eternal Paramatma is called Nara”.
Asankhyeyo prameyatma visistah shishtakruch chucih
Siddharthah siddha-sankalpah siddhidah siddhisadhanah ..27
Aprameyatma: One whose nature cannot be grasped by any of the means of knowledge.
Shishtakrch: Shihstam means commandment. So, one who commands everything. Or one who protects shishtas or good men.
Siddha-sankalpah: One whose resolutions are always fulfilled.
Siddhisadhanah: One who brings fulfillment to works that deserve the same.
Vrushahi vrushabho vishnur vrushaparva vrushodarah
Vardhano vardhamanascha viviktah shruti-sagarah ..28
Vrushabho: One who showers on the devotees all that they pray for.
Vrushaparva: One who has given as steps (Parvas), observances of the nature of Dharma, to those who want to attain the supreme state.
Vardhamanascha: One who multiplies in the form of the universe.
Shruti-sagarah: One to whom all the shruti or Vedic words and sentences flow.
Subhujo durdharo vagmi mahendro vasodo vasuh
Naikarupo bruhad-rupah shipivishtah prakashana ..29
Durdharo: One who holds up the universe – a work which none else can do.
Mahendro: The great Lord, that is, the Supreme Being, who is the God of all gods.
Vasuh: One who is himself theVasu.
Bruhad-rupah: One who has adopted mysterious forms like that of a Boar.
Prakashana: One who illumines everthing.
Ojas tejo dyuti-dharah prakashatma pratapanah
Vruddhah spahstaksharo mantras chandramshur bhaskaradyutih ..30
Prakashatma: One whose form is radiant.
Vruddhah: One who is rich in excellences like Dharma, Gyana (knowledge), Vairagya (renunciation) etc.
Mantras: One who manifests as the Mantras of the Rk, Sama, Yajus etc., or one who is known through Mantras.
Bhaaskaradyutih -The Effulgence of the Sun. Sun is the centre of the solar system, an eternal exchequer of energy, ever distributing Life and Strength to all living upon the earth; life would have been impossible but for the Sun. At the same time, the Sun stays where he is and he never interferes with life; from afar he blesses life. The Lord who thus from afar blesses by His mere presence is the true Sun of Life, the Atman, the Self- Sree Maha Vishnu
Amrtamshu dbhavo bhanuh shashabinduh sureshvarah
Aushadham jagatah setuh satya-dharma-prarakramah ..31
Bhanuh: One who shines.
Sureshvarah: One who is the Lord of all Devas and those who do good.
Jagatah setuh: One who is the aid to go across the ocean of Samsara.
Bhuta-bhavya-bhavan-na- thah: One who is the master for all the beings of the past, future and present.
Pavano: One who causes movement.
Kamaha: One who destroys the desire-nature in seekers after liberation.
Kantah: One who is extremely beautiful.
Kamapradah: One who liberally fulfils the desires of devotees.
Yugadikrud: One who is the cause of periods of time like Yuga.
Naikamayo: One who can assume numerous forms of Maya, not one only.
Adrushyo: One who cannot be grasped by any of the five organs of knowledge.
Sahasrajid: One who is victorious over innumerable enemies of the Devas in battle.
Ishto: One who is dear to all because He is of the nature of supreme Bliss.
Shishtestah: One who is dear to shishta or Knowing Ones.
Vrushah: One who is of the form of Dharma.
Krodhakrut karta: One who generates Krodha or anger in evil people.
Mahidharah: Mahi means both earth and worship. So the name means one who supports the earth or receives all forms of worship.
Achyutah prathitah pranah pranado vasavanujah
Apam-nidhir adhishthanam apramattah pratishtitah ..35
Prathitah: One who is famous because of His works like creation of the worlds etc.
Pranado: One who bestows Prana, that is, strength, on Devas and Asuras and also destroys them by withdrawing it.
Apam-nidhir: The word means collectivity of water or the ocean.
Apramattah: One who is always vigilant in awarding the fruits of actions to those who are entiled to them.
Skandah: One who drives everything as air.
Dhuryo: One who bears the weight of the burden of all beings in the form of birth etc.
Vayuvahanah: One who vibrates the seven Vayus or atmospheres beginning with Avaha.
Bruhad-bhanur: The great brilliance.
Purandarah: One who destroys the cities of the enemies of Devas.
Ashokas-taranas-tarah surah saurir janeshvarah
Anukulah shatavartah padmi padma-nibhekshanah ..37
Taranas: One who uplifts beings from the ocean of samsara.
Surah: One of great prowess, that is, who fulfils the four supreme satisfactions of life – Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha.
Janeshvarah: The Lord of all beings.
Shatavartah: One who has had several Avataras or incarnations.
Padma-nibhekshana- h: One with eyes resembling lotus.
Padmanabho aravindakshah padmagarbhah sarirabhrut
Mahardhir ruddho vruddhatma mahaksho garuda-dhvajah ..38
Aravindakshah: One whose eyes resemble Aravinda or the Lotus.
Sarirabhrut: One who supports the bodies of beings, strengthening them in the form of Anna (Food) and Prana.
Ruddho: One who is seen as standing in the form of the world.
Mahaksho: One who has got two or many glorious eyes.
Atulah: One who cannot be compared to anything else.
Bhimah: One of whom everyone is afraid.
Havir-harih: One who takes the portion of offerings (Havis) in Yajnas.
Lakshmivan: One on whose chest the Goddess Lakshmi is always residing.
Viksharo: One who is without Kshara or desruction.
Margah: One who is sought after by persons seeking Moksha or Liberation.
Damodarah: One who has very benevolent mind because of disciplines like self-control.
Mahidharo: One who props up the earth in the form of mountain.
Vegavan: One of tremendous speed.
Udbhavah: One who is the material cause of creation.
Devan: `Divyati’ means sports oneself through creation and other cosmic activities.
Parameshvarah: `Parama’ means the supreme. `Ishvarah’ means one who hold sway over all beings.
Kaaranam: He who is the most important factor in the generation of this universe.
Vikarta: One who makes this unique universe.
Guhah: One who hides one’s own nature with the help of His power of Maya.
Vyavasayo vyavasthanah samsthanah sthanado dhruvah
Parardhih parama-spashtas tushtah pushtah subhekshanah ..42
Vyavasthanah: He in whom the orderly regulation of the universe rests.
Sthanado: One who gives their particular status to persons like Dhruva according to their Karma.
Parardhih: One who possesses lordliness of this most exalted type.
Tushtah: One who is of the nature of supreme.
Subhekshanah: One whose Ikshanam or vision bestows good on all beings that is, gives liberation to those who want Moksha and enjoyments to those who are after it, and also cuts asunder the knots of the heart by eliminating all doubts.
Ramo viramo virato margo neyo nayonayah
Veera shaktimatam shreshtho dharmo dharma-vid uttamah ..43
Viramo: One in whom the Virama or end of all beings takes place.
Margo: That path by knowing which the liberation-seeking ascetics attain to immortality.
Nayo: One who leads, that is, who is the leader in the form of spiritual illumination.
Veera: One who is valorous.
Dharmah: One who supports all beings.
Vaikunthah: The bringing together of the diversified categories is Vikuntha. He who is the agent of it is Vaikunthah.
Pranah: One who lives as Kshetrajana (knower in the body) or one who functions in the form of vital force called Prana.
Pranavah: One who is praised or to whom prostration is made with Om.
Hiranya-garbhah: He who was the cause of the golden-coloured egg out of which Brahma was born.
Vyaptah: One who as the cause pervades all effects.
Adhokshajah: He is Adhokshaja because he undergoes no degeneration from His original nature.
Rituh sudarshanah kalah parameshti parigrahah
Ugrah samvatsaro daksho vishramo vishva-dakshinah ..45
Sudarshanah: One whose Darshana or vision that is knowledge, bestows the most auspicious fruit Moksha.
Parameshti: One who dwells in his supreme greatness in the sky of the heart.
Ugrah: One who is the cause of fear even to beings like Sun.
Vishramah: One who bestows Vishrama or liberation to aspirants who seek relief from the ocean of Samsara with its waves of various tribulations in the from of Hunger, Thirst etc., and difficulties like Avidya, pride, infatuation etc.,
Vistarah: One in whom all the worlds have attained manifestation.
Pramanam: One who is of the nature of pure consciousness.
Arthah: One who is sought (Arthita) by all, as He is of the nature of bliss.
Mahakosho: One who has got as His covering the great Koshas like Annamaya, Pranamaya etc.
Mahadhanah: One who has got the whole universe as the wealth (Dhana) for His enjoyment.
Anirvinnah sthavishtho abhoohr dharma-yupo maha-makhah
Nakshatra-nemir nakshatri kshamah kshamah samihanah ..47
Sthavishtah: One of huge proportions, because He is in the form of cosmic person.
Dharma Yupah: The sacrificial post for Dharmas, that is, one to whom all the forms of Dharma, which are His own form of worship, are attached, just as a sacrificial animal is attached to a Yupa or a sacrificial post.
Nakshatra nemir: The heart of all nakshatras.
Kshamah: One who is clever in everything.
Samihanah: One who exerts well for creation etc.
Yajna ijyo mahejyas cha kratuh satram satamgatih
Sarvadarshi vimuktatma sarvagyo gynanam-uttamam ..48
Ijayah: One who is fit to be worshipped in sacrifices.
Kratuh: A Yajna in which there is a sacrificial post is Kratu.
Satamgatih: One who is the sole support for holy men who are seekers of Moksha.
Vimuktatma: One who is naturally free.
Gynanam uttamam: That consciousness which is superior to all, birthless, unlimited by time and space and the cause of all achievements.
Suvratah sumukhah sukshmah sughoshah sukhadah suhrut
Manoharo jita-krodho virabahur vidaranah ..49
Sumukhah: One with a pleasant face.
Sughoshah: One whose auspicious sound is the Veda. Or one who has got a deep and sonorous sound like the clouds.
Suhrut: One who helps without looking for any return.
Jitakrodho: One who has overcome anger.
Vidaranah: One who destroys those who live contrary to Dharma.
Svapanah svavasho vyapi naikatma naika-karma-krut
Vatsaro vatsalo vatsi ratna-garbho dhaneshvarah ..50
Svavasho: One who is dominated by oneself and not anything else, as He is the cause of the whole cosmic process.
Naikatma: One who manifests in different forms as the subsidiary agencies causing the various cosmic processes.
Vatsaro: One in whom everything dwells.
Vatsi: One who protects those who are dear to Him.
Dhaneshvarah: One who is the Lord of all wealth.
Dharmagub dharmakrud dharmi sad-asatksharam aksharam
Avigyata sahashramsur vidhata kruta-lakshanah ..51
Dharmakrud: Though above. Dharma and Adharma, He performs Dharma in order to keep up the traditions in respect of it.
Sad: The Parabrahman who is of the nature of truth.
Ksharam: All beings subjected to change.
Avigyata: One who is without the attributes of a Jiva or vigyata like sense of agency etc.
Vidhata: One who is the unique support of all agencies like Ananta who bear the whole universe.
Gabhasti-nemih: He who dwells in the middle of Gabhasti or rays as the Sun.
Simho: One who ahs irresistible power like a lion.
Adidevo: He who is the first of all beings.
Devesah: One who is the lord of all Devas, being the most important among them.
Uttaro: One who is Uttirna or liberated from Samsara.
Gopta: One who is the protector of all beings.
Puratanah: One who is not limited by time and who existed before anything else.
Bhokta: One who protects. Or one who is the enjoyer of infinite bliss.
Bhuridakshinah: One to whom numerous Dakshinas or votive offerings are made in Yagyas.
Somapo amrutapah somah purujit purushottamah
Vinayo jayah satyasandho dasharhah satvatampatih ..54
Amrutapah: One who drinks the drink of immortal Bliss which is of one’s own nature.
Purujit: One who gains victory over numerous people.
Vinayo: One who inflicts Vinaya or punishment on evil ones.
Satyasandho: One whose `Sandha’ or resolve becomes always true.
Satvatampatih: `Satvatam’ is the name of a Tantra. So the one who gave it out or commented upon it.
Jivo vinayita-sakshi mukundo amita vikramah
Ambhonidhir anantatma mahodadhishayonatakah ..55
Vinayita-sakshi: One who witnesses the Vinayita or worshipful attitude of all devotees.
Amita vikramah: One whose three strides were limitless.
Anantatma: One who cannot be determined by space, time and causation.
Antakah: One who brings about the end of all beings.
Ajo maharhah svabhavyo jitamitrah pramodanah
Anando nandano nandah satya-dharma trivikramah ..56
Maharhah: One who is fit for worship.
Jitamitrah: One who has conquered the inner enemies like attachment, anger etc. as also external enemies like Ravana, Kumbhakarna etc.
Anando: One whose form is Ananda or Bliss.
Nandah: One endowed with all perfections.
Trivikramah: One whose three strides covered the whole world.
Maharshih kapilacharyah krutagyo medini-patih
Tripadas tridashadhyaksho mahashrungah krutantakrut ..57
Krutagyo: Kruta means the world because it is of the nature of an effect.
Tripadas: One having three strides.
Mahashrungah: One with a great antenna.
Mahavaraho: The great Cosmic Boar.
Sushenah: One who has got about Him an armed guard in the shape of His eternal associates.
Guhyo: One who is to be known by the Guhya or the esoteric knowledge conveyed by the Upanishads. Or one who is hidden in the Guha or heart.
Gahano: One who could be entered into only with great difficulty. One who is the witness of the three states of waking, dreams and sleep as also their absence.
Chakra-gada-dharah: One who has discus and Gada in hand.
Vedhah svango ajitah krishno drudhah sankarshano acyutah
Varuno vaaruno vrukshah pushkaraksho mahamanah ..59
Svango: One who is oneself the participant in accomplishing works.
Krishno: One who is known as Krishna-dvaipayana.
Sankarshano- Acyutah: Sankarshana is one who attracts to oneself all beings at the time of cosmic Dissolution and Acyuta is one who knows no fall from His real nature. They form one word with the first as the qualification – Acyuta who is sankarshana.
Vaaruno: Vasishta or Agastya, the sons of Varuna.
Pushkaraksho: One who shines as the light of consciousness when meditated upon in the lotus of the heart. Or one who has eyes resembling the lotus.
Bhagavan: The origin, dissolution, the bondage and salvation of creatures, knowledge, ignorance – one who knows all these is Bhagavan.
Anandi: One whose nature is Ananda (bliss).
Halayudhah: One who in His incarnation as Balabhadra had Hala or ploughshare as His weapon.
Jyotir-adityah: One who dwells in the brilliance of the sun’s orb.
Gatisattamah: One who is the ultimate resort and support of all, and the greatest of all beings.
Sudhanva-khandaparashur- -daruno dravinapradah
Divah-spruk sarva-drug vyaso vachaspatir ayonijah ..61
Khanda-parashur: The battle-axe that destroys enemies.
Dravinapradah: One who bestows the desired wealth on devotees.
Sarva-drug vyaso: One whose comprehension includes everything in its ambit.
Trisama: One who is praised by the chanters of Sama-gana through the three Samas known as Devavratam.
Sama: Among the Vedas, I am Sama Veda.
Bheshajam: The medicine for the disease of Samsara.
Sanyasakrut: One who instituted the fourth Ashrama of Sanyasa for the attainment of Moksha.
Santo: The peaceful, being without interest in pleasures of the world.
Santih: One in whom there is complete erasing of Avidya or ignorance. That is Brahman.
Shubhangah: One with a handsome form.
Srashta: One who brought forth everything at the start of the creative cycle.
Kuvalesayah: ‘Ku’ means earth. That which surrounds it is water, so ‘Kuvala’ means water. One who lies in water is Kuvalesaya. ‘Kuvala’ also means the underside of serpents. One wholies on a serpent, known as Adisesha, is Kuvalesaya.
Gopatir: The Lord of the earth is Vishnu.
Vrushabhaksho: One whose eyes can rain all desirable objects on devotees. Vrushabha means Dharma and so one whose look is Dharma.
Anivarti: One who never retreats in the battle with Asuras. Or one who, being devoted to Dharma, never abandons it.
Samkshepta: One who at the time of cosmic dissolution contracts the expansive universe into a subtle state.
Chivah: One who purifies everyone by the very utterance of His name.
Shrivasah: One on whose chest Shridevi always dwells.
Shrimatam-varah: One who is supreme over all deities like Brahma who are endowed with power and wealth of the Vedas.
Shridah shrishah shrinivasah shrinidhih shri-vibhavanah
Shridharah shrikarah shreyah shriman loka-trayashrayah ..65
Shrishah: One who is Lord of the Goddess Shri.
Shrinidhih: One who is the seat of all Shri, that is, virtues and powers.
Shridharah: One who bears on His chest Shri who is the mother of all.
Shreyah: ‘Shreyas’ means the attainment of what is un-decaying good and happiness. Such a state is the nature of the Lord.
Loka-trayashrayah: One who is the support of all the three worlds.
Svakshah svangah shatanando nandir jyotir-ganeshvarah
Vijitatma vidheyatma satkirtischinna-samsayah ..66
Svangah: One whose limbs are beautiful.
Nandir: One who is of the nature of supreme Bliss.
Vijitatma: One who has conquered the Atma that is the mind.
Satkriti: One whose fame is of the nature of truth.
Udirnah: He who is superior to all beings.
Anisah: One who cannot have anyone to lord over him.
Bhushayo: One who, while seeking the means to cross over to Lanka, had to sleep on the ground of the sea-beach.
Bhutir: One who is the abode or the essence of everthing, or is the source of all glorious manifestations.
Shokanashanah: One who effaces the sorrows of devotees even by mere remembrance.
Archishman architah kumbho vishuddhatma vishodhanah
Aniruddho pratirathah pradyumno amita-vikramah ..68
Architah: One who is worshipped by Brahma and other Devas who are themselves the objects of worship in all the worlds.
Vishuddhatma: Being above the three Gunas, Satva, Rajas and Tamas, the Lord is pure spirit and is also free from all impurities.
Aniruddho: The last one of the four Vyuhas – Vasudeva, Samkarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. Or one who, cannot be obstructed by enemies.
Pradyumno: One whose Dyumna or wealth is of a superior and sacred order. Or one of the four Vyuhas.
Kalanemi-niha: One who destroyed the Asura named Kalanemi.
Saurih: One who was born in the clan of Sura as Krishna.
Trilokatma: One who in his capacity as the inner pervade is the soul for the three worlds.
Keshavah: By Kesha is meant the rays of light spreading within the orbit of the sun.
Harih: One who destroys Samsara, that is, entanglement in the cycle of birth and death along with ignorance, its cause.
Kamadevah kamapalah kami kantah krutagamah
Anirdeshya-vapur vishnur viro ananto dhananjayah ..70
Kamapalah: One who protects or assures the desired ends of people endowed with desires.
Kantah: One whose form is endowed with great beauty. Or one who effects the ‘Anta’ or dissolution of ‘Ka’ or Brahma at the end of a Dviparardha. (the period of Brahma’s lifetime extending over a hundred divine years).
Anirdeshya-vapur: He is called so, because, being above the Gunas, His form cannot be determined.
Viro: One who has the power of Gati or movement.
Dhananjayah: Arjuna is called so because by his conquest of the kingdoms in the four quarters he acquired great wealth. Arjuna is a Vibhuti, a glorious manifestation of the Lord.
Brahmanyo brahmakrud-brahma brahma brahma-vivardhanah
Brahmavid brahmano brahmi brahmgno brahmana-priyah ..71
Brahmakrud: One who performs Brahma or Tapas (austerity).
Brahma: Being big expanding, the Lord who is known from indications like Satya (Truth), is called Brahma. Or Brahma is Truth, Knowledge and Infinity!
Brahmavid : One who knows the Vedas and their real meaning.
Brahmi: One in whom is established such entities as Tapas, Veda, mind, Prana etc. which are parts of Brahma and which are also called Brahma.
Brahmanapriyah: One to whom holy men are devoted.
Mahakramo mahakarma mahateja mahoragah
Mahakratur mahayajva mahayagyo mahahavih ..72
Mahakarma: One who is performing great works like the creation of the world.
Mahoragah: He is also the great serpent.
Mahayajva: One who is great and performs sacrifices for the good of the world.
Mahahavih: The whole universe conceived as Brahman and offered as sacrificial offering (Havis) into the fire of the Self, which is Brahman.
Stavyah Stavapriyah stotram stutih stota ranapriyah
Purnah purayita punyah punyakirtir anamayah ..73
Stavapriyah: One who is pleased with hymns.
Stutih: A praise.
Ranapriyah: One who is fond of fight for the protection of the world, and for the prupose always sports in His hands the five weapons, the discus Sudarshana, the mace Kaumodaki, the bow Saranga, and the sword Nandaka besides the conch Panchajanya.
Purayita: One who is not only self-fulfilled but gives all fulfillments to others.
Punyakirtir: One of holy fame. His excellences are capable of conferring great merit on others.
Manojavas: One who, being all pervading, is said to be endowed with speed likes that of the mind.
Vasureta: He whose Retas (Semen) is gold (Vasu).
Vasuprado: One who bestows on devotees the highest of all wealth, namely Moksha.
Vasur: He in whom all creation dwells.
Havih: Havis or sacrificial offerings
Sadgatih sat-krutih satta sad-bhutih sat-parayanah
Suraseno yadushreshthah sannivasah suyamunah ..75
Sat-krutih: One whose achievements are for the protection of the world.
Sad-bhutih: The Paramatman who is pure existence and conscousness, who is unsublatable and who manifests Himself in many ways.
Suraseno: One having an army of heroic wariours like Hanuman.
Sannivasah: One who is the resort of holy knowing ones.
Bhutavaso: He in whom all the beings dwell.
Sarvasu-nilayo: He in whose form as the Jiva all the vital energy or Prana of all living beings dissolves.
Darpaha: One who puts down the pride of persons who walk along the unrighteous path.
Drupto: One who is ever satisfied by the enjoyment of His own inherent bliss.
Aparajita: One who is never conquered by internal enemies like attachment and by external enemies like Asuras.
Vishvamurtir mahamurtir diptamurtir amurtiman
Anekamurtir avyaktah shatamurtih shatananah ..77
Mahamurtir: One with an enormous form stretched on a bedstead constituted of the serpent Adisesha.
Amurtiman: He who is without a body born of Karma.
Avyaktah: One who cannot be clearly described as ‘This’ even though He has many forms.
Shatananah: He is called one with a hundred faces to indicate that He has several forms.
Eko naikah savah kah kim yat tat padam-anuttamam
Lokabandhur lokanatho madhavo bhakta-vastalah ..78
Naikah: One who has numerous bodies born of Maya.
Kah: The syllable ‘Ka’ indicatesjoy or happiness. So it means one who is hymned as constituted of joy.
Yat: One who is by nature existent. The word ‘Yat’ indicates a self-subsisting entity.
Padam-anuttamam: Braman is ‘Pada’ or Status, because He is the goal of all Moksha-seekers. It is Anuttama, because It is that beyond which there is nothing else to be attained.
Lokanathah: One to whom all the worlds pray.
Bhaktavatsalah: One who has got love for devotees.
Suvarna varno hemango varangas chandanangadi
Viraha vishamah sunyo ghrutasir achalaschalah ..79
Hemango: One whose form is like that of gold.
Chandanangadi: One who is adorned with armlets that generate joy.
Vishamah: One to whom there is no euql because nothing is comparable to Him by any characteristic.
Ghrutasir: One whose blessings are unfailing.
Chalah: One who moves in the form of air.
Amani manado manyo lokasvami triloka-dhruk
Sumedha medhajo dhanyah satyamedha dharadharah ..80
Manado: One who by His power of Maya induces the sense of self in non-self. Or one who has regard and beneficence towards devotees. Or one who destroys in the knowing ones the sense of identification with the non-self.
Lokasvami: One who is the Lord of all the fourteen spheres.
Sumedha: One with great and beneficent intelligence.
Dhanyah: One who has attained all His ends and therefore is self-satisfied.
Dharadharah: One who supports the worlds by His fractiosn like Adisesha.
Tejovrusho dyuti-dharah sarva-shastra-bhrutam-varah
Pra- grahonigraho vyagro naikashrungo gadagrajah ..81
Dyuti-dharah: One whose form is always brilliant.
Pragraho: One who accepts the offerings of devotees with great delight.
Vyagro: One who has no Agra or end. Or one who is very attentive (Vyagra) in granting the prayers of devotees.
Gadagrajah: One who is revealed first by Mantra (Nigada). Or one who is the elder rbother of Gada.
Chaturmurtis chaturbahus chaturvyuhas chaturgatih
Chaturatma chaturbhavas chaturvedavid ekapat ..82
Chaturbahus: One with four arms, as Vasudeva is always described.
Chatur-gatih: One who is sought as the end by the four Orders of life and four Varnas ordained by the scriptures.
Chaturbhavas: One from whom has originated the four human values – Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha.
Ekapat: One with a single Pada, part or leg. Or one with a single foot or manifestation.
Samavarto anivrutatma durjayo duratikramah
Durlabho durgamo durgo duravaso durariha ..83
Anivrutatma: One who is not Nivruta (separated from) anything or anywhere, because He is all-pervading.
Duratikramah: One out of fear of whom, even heavenly objects like sun do not dare to oppose His command.
Durgamo: One whom it is difficult to attain.
Duravaso: He whom the Yogis with very great difficulty bring to reside in their hearts in Samadhi.
Shubhango: One whose form is very auspicious to meditate upon.
Sutantus: As this universe of infinite extension belongs to Him, the Lord is called Sutantu.
Indrakarma: One whose actions are like that of Indra, that is, are of a highly commendable nature.
Krutakarma: One who has fulfilled everything and has nothing more to accomplish.
Udbhavah: One who assumes great and noble embodiments out of His own will.
Sundo: One who is noted for extreme tenderness (Undanam).
Sulochanah: One who has brilliant eyes, that is, knowledge of everything.
Vajasanah: One who gives Vajam (food) to those who entreat Him.
Jayantah: One who conquers enemies easily.
Suvarna-bindur: One whose ‘Bindus’ that is, limbs, are euaql to gold in brilliance.
Sarva-vagishvareshv- arah: One who is the master of all masters of learning, including Brahma.
Maha-garto: One whose Maya is difficult to cross like a ddp pit.
Mahanidhih: One in whom all the great elements have their support. He is Mahan or a great one and ‘Nidhi’, the most precious one.
Kumudah kundarah kundah parjanyah pavano anilah
Amrutasho amrutavapuh sarvagyah sarvato-mukha ..87
Kundarah: One who offers blessings as pure as Kunda or jasmine.
Parjanyah: The word means cloud. One who resembles the cloud in extinguishing the three Tapas (heats, that is, miseries) arising from psychological, material and spiritual causes. Or one who rains all desires like a cloud.
Anilah: ‘Ilanam’ means inducement. One who is without any inducement is Anila. Ilana also means sleep. So one who sleeps not or is ever awake is Anila.
Amrutavapuh: One whose form is deathless, that is, undecaying.
Sarvatomukhah: One who has faces everywhere.
Sulabhah suvratah siddhah shatru-jit shatru-tapanah
Nyagrodho adumbaro-svatthas chanurandhra-nishudhanah ..88
Suvratah: ‘Vratati’ means enjoys. So, one who enjoys pure offerings. It can also mean one who is a non-enjoyer, that is, a mere witness.
Shatru-jit: Conqueror of all forces of evil.
Nyagrodho: That which remains above all and grows downward. That is, He is the source of everything that is manifest.
Asvatthas: That which does not last even for the next day.
Sahasrarchi: One with innumerable Archis or rays.
Saptaidhah: The Lord who is of the nature of fire has seven Edhas or forms of brilliance.
Amurtir: One who is without sins or without sorrow.
Bhayakrud: One who generates fear in those who go along the evil path. Or one who cuts at the root of all fear.
Anur: One who is extremely subtle.
Krusah: One who is non-material.
Gunabrun: The support of the Gunas. He is so called because in the creative cycle of creation, sustentation, and dissolution, He is the support of the Gunas – Satva, Rajas and Tamas – with which these functions are performed.
Mahan: The great.
Svadhrutah: One supported by oneself.
Pragvamsho: The family lines of others are preceded by the lines of still others, but the Lord’s descendent, namely, the world system, is not preceded by anything else.
Bhara-bhrut: One who bears the weight of the earth assuming the form of Ananta.
Yogi: Yoga here means knowledge. So He who is attained by that is Yogi. Or Yoga means Samadhi. He who is ever established in His own Self, that is, the Paramatma. He is therefore Yogi.
Sarva-kamadah: One who bestows all desired fruits.
Shramanah: One who brings tribulations to those who live without using their discriminative power.
Suparnah: The lord who has manifested Himself as the tree of Samsara has excellent leaves (Parna) in the form of Vedic passages (Chandas).
Dhanurdharo: He who as Rama wielded the great bow.
Dando: He who is discipline among the disciplinarians.
Damah: He who is in the form of self-descipline in men as a result of enforcement.
Sarvasaho: One who is expert in all Karmas (works).
Aniyamo: One on whom there is no enforcement of any law, or above whom there can be no overlord to enforce anything, as He is the controller of everything.
Satvavan: One who has got the strengthening qualities like heroism, prowess etc.
Satyah: One who is truly established in good people.
Abhiprayah: The One who is sought after by those who seek the ultimate values of life (Purushartha).
Arhah: One who deserves to be worshipped with all the ingredients and rites of worship like offerings, praise, prostration etc.
Pritivardhanah: One who enhances the joys of devotees.
Vihayasagatir jyotih suruchir huta-bhug vibhuh
Ravir virochanah suryah savita ravilochanah ..94
Jyotih: One who is the light of self-luminous consciousness that reveals oneself as well as other things.
Huta-bhug: One who eats, that is, receives, whatever is offered to whatever deities (Devas) in all sacrifices.
Ravir: One who absorbs all Rasas (fluids) in the form of the Sun.
Suryah: One who generates Shri or brilliance in Surya. Or Agni (Fire) is what is called Surya.
Ravi-lochanah: One having the sun as the eye.
Ananto huta-bhug bhokta sukhado naikajo-grajah
Anirvinnah sadamarshi lokadhishthana-madbhutah ..95
Hutabhuk: One who consumes what is offered in firesacrifices.
Sukhado: One who bestows liberation (Miksha) on devotees.
Agrajah: One who was born before everything else, that is, Hiranya-garbha.
Sadamarshi: One who is always patient towards good men.
Adbhutah: The wonderful being.
Sanat sanatana-tamah kapilah kapir avyayah
Svastidah svastikrut svasti svastibhuk svasti-dakshinah ..96
Sanatana-tamah: Being the cause of all, He is more ancient than Brahma and other beings, who are generally considered eternal.
Kapir: ‘Ka’ means water. One who drinks or absorbs all water by his Kapi, that is, the sun.
Svastikrut: One who works bestowing what is good.
Svastibhuk: One who enjoys the Svasti mentioned above or who preserves the Svasti of devotees.
Araudrah: Action, attachment and anger these three are Raudra. The Lord is one whose desires are all accomplished, so He has no attachment or aversion. So He is free from theRaudras mentioned above.
Chakri: One who sports in his hand the discus named Sudarshana, which is the category known as Manas, for the protection of all the worlds.
Urjita-shasanah: One whose dictates in the form of shrutis and smrutis are of an extremely sublime nature.
Sabdasahah: One who is the purport of all Vedas.
Sarvari-karah: For those in bondage, the Atman is like Sarvari (night) and for an enlightened one the state of samsara is like night (Sarvari). So the Lord is called the one who generates Sarvari or night for both the enlightened and the bound ones.
Akrurah peshalo daksho dakshinah kshiminam varah
Vidvattamo vitabhayah punya-shravana-kirtanah ..98
Peshalo: One who is handsome in regard to His actions, mind, word and body.
Dakshinah: This word is also means the same as the above Nama.
Vidvattamo: He who has got the unsurpassable and all-inclusive knowledge of everything.
Punya-shravana-kirt- anah: One to hear about whom and to sing of whom is meritorious.
Uttarano dushkrutiha punyo duh-svapna-nasanah
Viraha rakshanah santo jivanah paryavasthitah ..99
Dushkrutiha: One who effaces the evil effects of evil actions. Or one who destroys those who perform evil.
Duh-svapna-nasanah: When adored and meditated upon, He saves one from dreams foreboding danger. Hence He is called so.
Rakshanah: One who, assuming the Satvaguna, protects all the three worlds.
Jivanah: One who supports the lives of all beings as Prana.
Ananta-rupo: One who has innumerable forms, as He dwells in this all-comprehending universe.
Jitamanyur: One who has overcome anger.
Chaturashro: One who is just, because He bestows on Jivas the fruits of their Karma.
Vidisho: One who distributes various furits of actions to persons differing in their forms according to competency.
Dishah: One who in the form of the Vedas bestows the fruits of their ritualistic actions on different beings.
Anadi bhurbhuvo lakshmih suviro ruchirangadah
Janano janajanmadir bhimo bhima-parakramah ..101
Bhurbhuvo: ‘Bhu’ means support. One who is the support (Bhu) of even the earth, which is known to support all things.
Suviro: One who has many brilliant ways of manifestation.
Janano: One who gives brith to living beings.
Bhimo: One who is the cause of fear.
Adharanilayo: One who is the support of even all the basic supporting factors like the five elements – Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.
Pushpahasah: One whose manifestation as the universe resembles the Hasa or blooming of buds into flowers.
Urdhvagah: One who is above everything.
Pranadah: One who givesback life to dead ones as in the case of Parikshit.
Panah: It comes from the root ‘Prana’ meaning transaction. So one who bestows the fruits of Karma on all according to their Karma.
Prmanam prananilayah pranabhrut pranajivanah
Tatvam tatvavidekatma janma-mrutyu-jaratigah ..103
Prananilayah: The home or dissolving ground of the Pranas.
Pranajivanah: He who keeps alive human beings with Vayus (airs) known as Prana, Apana etc., Tattvam: “the Reality” –that which is eternal, the essence. “That which one gains in subjective realization is the self,” Sree Narayana
Ekatma: One who is the sole being and the spirit (Atma) in all.
Bhur-bhuvah-svastarus: The three Vyahrutis Bhuh, Bhuvah, Svah are said to be the essence of the Veda.
Prapitamahah: One who is the father of Brahma and therefore the grandfather of all.
Yagya-patir: One who is the protector and the master of the Yagyas.
Yagyango: All the parts of His body as the incarnate Cosmic Boar are identified with the parts of a yagya.
Yagyabhrud: He is so called, because He is the protector and supporter of all yagyas.
Yagyi: One who is the Principal.
Yagyasadhanah: One to whom the Yagya is the approach.
Yagyaguhyam: The gyana yagya or the sacrifice of knowledge, which is the esoteric (Guhyam) of all the yagyams.
Annada eva cha: One who is the eater of the whole world as food. The word Eva is added to show that He is also Anna, the food eaten.
Atmayonih svayamjato vaikhanah samagayanah
Devaki-nandanah srashtha kshitishah papanashanah ..106
Svayam-jato: He is also the instrumental cause.
Samagayanah: One who recites the Sama chants.
Srashtha: The creator of all the worlds.
Papanashanah: He who destroys the sins of those who adore Him, meditate upon Him, remember and sing hymns of praise on Him.
Shankhabrun -nandaki chakri sharangadhnva gadadharah
Rathanga panirakshobhyah sarva-praharanayudhah ..107
Nandaki: One who has in His hand the sword known as Nandaka, which stands for Vidya (spiritual illumination).
Sharnga-dhanvaa :“One who aims his unerring bow called Saarnga.” This bow of Narayana is glorified in our texts as representing the Ego, as the ‘apex’ of all the sense organs, Ahankaara-Tattva. In this concluding Stanza, the instruments of Blessing in sree Narayana’s hands are remembered with reverence and devotion.
Rathangapani: One in whose hand is a wheel (Chakra).
Sarva-praharana-yudha- h: There is no rule that the Lord has got only the above-mentioned weapons. All things, which can be used for contacting or striking, are His weapons.
1. (In the above verses have been given a complete enumeration of the thousand divine names of the the Great Being Keshava, who is the fit object for all praise and prayer.)
(Nothing evil or inauspicious will befall a man here or hereafter who daily hears or repeats these names)
Vedan-tago bramhana-syat kshatriyo vijayee bavet
Vaisyo dhana-samru-ddhasyat shhoodra sukha mavap-nuyat
Dharmarthee prapnu-yatdharmam artharthee chartha mapnuyat
Kamana-vapnuyat-kamee prajarthee chapnu-yat-prajam
5.Bhaktimaan Yah Sadotthyaaya Suchis-tadgata Maanasahah
Sahasram Vaasudevasya Naamnaam Etat Prakeertayet
(Whichever devoted man, getting up early in the morning and purifying himself, repeats this hymn devoted to Vaasudeva, with a mind that is concentrated on Him.. )
6. Yashah Prapnoti Vipulam Jnaati Praadhaanyam Eva Cha
Achalaam Sriyam Aapnoti Sreyah Praapnotyanuttamam
(That man attains to great fame, leadership among his peers, wealth that is secure and the supreme good unsupassed by anything....)
7. Na Bhayam Kvachid Aapnoti Veeryam Tejasya Vindati
Bhavatyarogo Dyutimaan Bala-roopa-gunaanvitahah
(He will be free from all fears and be endowed with great courage and energy and he will be free from diseases. Beauty of form, strength of body and mind, and virtuous character will be natural to him.)
8. Rogarto muchyate rogat baddho muchyeta bandhanat Bhaya nmuchyeta bheetastu muchye tapanna apadha
9.Durganya-titara tyashu purushah purusho-ttamam Stuva nnama-saha-srena nityam bhakti saman-vitah
10. Vaasudeva-ashrayo Martyo Vaasudeva Paraayanahah
Sarva Paapa Vishudhaatmaa Yaati Brahma Sanaatanam
(Free from all sins, a man devoted to Vaasudeva and completely dependent on Him attains to the eternal status of Brahman.)
11.Na vasu-deva bhakta-nam ashubham vidyate kvachit
Janma mrithyu jara vyadhi bhayam naivapa jayate
(No inauspicious things can happen to a devotee of Vasudeva. The person will conquer the cycle of birth, death, fear and disease.)
12.Emam stava madhee-yanah shraddha-bhakti sama-nvitah
Yujye tatam sukha-kshantih shree-dhrati smruti keertibhih
(One who reads this hymn every day with devotion and attention attains peace of mind, patience, prosperity, mental stability, memory and reputation.)
13.Na krodho na matsaryam na lobho na shubha-matih
Bhavanti kruta punyanam bhakta-nam puru-shottame
(Such a person is not caught by anger, binding, jealousy, or any inauspicious event. Such a bhakta becomes a "punyatma" and merges with the Purshottama (i.e. supreme being))
14.Dhyou sachan-drarka nakshatra kham disho bhoorma-hodadhih
Vasu-devasya veeryena vidhrutani mahat-manah
15.Sa-sura-sura gandharvam sa-yaksho-raga raksha-sam
Jaga-dvashe varta-tedam krishnasya sachara-charam
16.Indri-yani mano-buddhih satvam tejo-balam dhrutih
Vasu-devatma kanyahuh kshetram-kshetragyna eva cha
17.Sarva-gamana macharah prathamam pari-kalpate
Aachara prabhavo dharmo dharmasya pradhu-rachyutah
(The rishis, pitrus, the devas, the great elements and in fact all things moving and unmoving constituting this universe have originated from Naaraayana. )
19.Yogo gynanam tatha sankhyam vidya shilpadi karma-cha
Vedah shasthrani vigynana etat-sarvam janar-danat
(The Yoga, Jnaana, Saamkya, sciences, arts, works, Vedas, scriptures, spiritual illumination -- all these have originated from Janaardhana.)
20.Eko-vishnu rmaha-dbhootam prutha-gbhoota nyanekasah
Trilon-lokan-vyapya-- bhootatma bhujkte vishva-bhugavyayah
(Whoever desires advancement and happiness should repeat this devotional hymn on Vishnu composed by Vyaasa.)
22.Vishve-shvara majam devam jagatah prabhu mavyam
Bhajanti ye pushka-raksham nate yanti para-bhavam
Na te yanti para-bhavam om nama iti
As directed by the Lord, he meets Yudishtra. At their meeting, Yudhistira presented Bhishma with six questions.
kimEkam dhaivatam lokE?
Who is the greatest Lord in the world?
2. stuvantam kam prApnuyuh mAnavah subham?
By glorifying whom, can man attain peace and prosperity?
4. kO dharmah sarva dharmANaam bhavatah paramO matah?
What is, in thy opinion, the greatest Dharma?
6.
Bhishma responded by reciting the one thousand names now hailed as the Vishnu Shasranama, and reminded him that either by meditating on these names or by invoking the names through archana (Offering), our minds can be lifted to higher consciousness.
VishNu SahasranAmam consists of 142 slokas. Excepting 13 slokas at the beginning and 22 at the end, the remaining 107 slokas contain the thousandnames of God.
prasanna-vadanam dhyAyet sarva-vighnopaSAntaye.
[ (For the eradication of all obstructions) One should meditate upon vishNu Who is clad in white robes, Who has a moonlike lustre, Who has four arms and Who has a beneficient face. ]
vyAsam vasishta-naptAram Sakteh pautram akalmasham
namo vai Brahma-nidhaye vAsishtAya namo namaH.
[ My repeated salutations to vyAsa who is a form of vishNu and to vishNu who is a form of vyAsa- sage vyAsa, who is a descendent of vasishta and who is a treasure of brahman, (i.
e. vedas).]
avikArAya SuddhAya nityAya paramAtmane
yudhishThiraH SAntanavam punar-evAbhya-bhAshata.
[ sri vaiSampAyana said: "After hearing all froms of dharma capable of effecting complete purification, yudhishThira, still unsatisfied, questioned the son of Santanu as follows": ]
YudhishThira uvAca-
kimekam daivatam loke kim vApyekam parAyaNam
dhyAyan stuvan namasyamS-ca yajamAnas-tam-eva-ca.
[That worshipper will be free from all sorrows who devoutly worships and meditates on that Undecaying Being, as also praises Him and makes prostrations to Him. ]
anAdi-nidhanam vishNum sarva-loka-maheSvaram
paramam yo mahad brahma paramam yaH parAyanam.
[He is the supreme light of consciousness. He is the supreme controller of everything. He is the supreme All-pervading Being. He is the support of everything. ]
pavitrAnAm pavitam yo mangalAnAm ca mangalam
yasmimS-ca pralayam yAnti punareva yuga-kshye.
[He is the One from whom all beings come into existence at the beginning of a cycle of time, and He is also the One into whom they all dissolve at the end of the cycle.]
tasya loka-pradhAnasya jagan nAthasya bhUpate
vishNor nAma-sahasram me SRNu pApa-bhay'Apaham.
[Hear from me the hymn that is constituted of a 'thousand names' of that vishNu who is the master of the universe, who is the subject of discourse of all scriptures, and who is the eraser of all sins and fear of samsAra.]
yAni nAmAni gauNAni vikhyAtAni maHAtmanaH
RishibhiH pari-gItAni tAni vashyAmi bhUtaye.
[I am giving for the benefit of all those names of His which are far-famed, which are indicative of His attributes, and which find a place in the exalted hymns of the Rshis."]
vishNoHr nAma-sahasrasya veda-vyAso mahA-muniH
aneka-rUpa-daity-Ant- am namAmi purushottamam.
[I bow to vishNu, the victorious, the All-pervading, the Mighty, the Lord of All, the Enemy of daityas (demons) of many forms and the Best of persons. ]
asya sri vishNoH divya sahara-nAma-stotra-mahA-mantra- sya
sri veda-vyAso bhagavAn RishiH, anushtup Chandah,
sri mahA-vishNuH paramAtmA sriman-nArAyaNo devatA
amritAmSUdbhavo bhAnuriti bIjam
devakInandanaH srashteti SaktiH
udbhavah kshobhano deva-iti paramo mantraH
Sankha-bHrt nandakI cakrIti kIlakam
SArnga-dhanvA gadhA-dhara-iti astram
rathAnga-pANiH akshobhyah-iti netram
tri-sAmA sAmagah sAmeti kavacham
Anandam para-brahmeti yoniH
rituh sudarsanah kAleti dig-bandhaH
sri visva-rUpa iti dhyAnam
chitram ramramyate tam tribhuvana-vapusham vishNum Isam namAmi.
[I bow to Lord vishNu who has the three worlds as His body. The Earth is His feet, and the sky His navel. Wind is His breath, and the Sun and the Moon are His eyes. Directions are His ears, and the Heaven is His head. Fire is His face and ocean His abdomen. In Him is situated the universe with diverse kinds of Gods, men, birds, cattle, serpents, gandharvas and daityas (demons)- all sporting in a charming way.]
Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya:
SantAkAram bhujaga-sayanam padmanAbham sureSam
viSvAdhAram gagana-sadRSam megha-varNam SubhAngam
lakshmi-kAntam kamala-nayanam yogibhir dhyAna-gamyam
vishNum vande sarva-lokaika-nAtham.
[I prostrate before vishNu, the one Lord of the worlds, blue as the cloud and clothed in yellow robes. His chest is marked by the mole known as srivatsa. His body is resplendent with kaustubha gem. He is surrounded by holy persons. And he has wide eyes like lotuses.]
Namah samasta bhutanam-adi-bhutaya bhubrite
namAmi vishNum SirasA catur-bhujam.
chayayam parijatasya hemasimhasanopari asinamambusdasyamamayataksamal- ankrtam
candrananam caturbahum srivatsankita vaksasam rukmini satyabhamabhyam sahitam krsnamasraya
[I bow down my head before the four-handed vishNu who sports in His hand the Sankha and the discuss, who is adorned with a crown and ear-pendants, who wears a yellow cloth, whose eyes resemble a lotus and whose chest is beautified by many necklaces and the kaustubha mark.]
VISHNU SAHASRANAMA STOTRAM:
Om vishvam vishnur-vashatkaro bhuta-bhavya-bhavat-prabhuh
Bhu- takrud bhutabhrud bhavo bhutatma bhuta-bhavanah ..1
Vishnur: He who pervades every thing.
Bhuta-bhavya-bhavat-prab- huh: The one who is the master and beyond the past, present and the future.
Bhutabhrud: One who supports or sustains or governs the universe.
Bhutatma: The essence of all beings.
Putatma: One whose nature is purity/who is purity
Muktanam parama gatih: The highest goal of the liberated ones.
Purusha: One who abides in the body or pura.
Kshetrajno: The knower of the field or body.
Yogo: One attainable through Yoga.
Pradhana-purushesvarah: The master of pradhana or Prakruti and Purusha or Jiva.
Shirman: One on whose chest the goddess Shri always dwells.
Purushottamah: The greatest among all Purushas
Sarvah sarvah sivah sthanur-bhutadir-nidhir-avyaya- h
Sambhavo bhavano bharta prabhavah prabhur-isvarah ..4
Sarvah: Destroyer. Sivah: One pure.
Bhutadir: Source of all elements or existing things.
Sambhavo: One born out of His own will as incarnation.
Bharta: One who supports the universe as its substratum.
Prabhur: One who is an adept in all rites.
Svayambhuh: One who exists by Himself, uncaused by any other.
Adityah: The golden-hued person in the sun’s orb.
Mahasvanah: One from whom comes the great sound – the Veda.
Dhata: One who is the support of the universe.
Dhaturuttamah: The ultimate support of every thing.
Aprameyo hrishikesah padma-nabho~mara-prabhuh
Visvak- arma manustvashta sthavishtah sthaviro-dhruvah ..6
Hrishikesah: The master of the senses or He under whose control the senses subsist.
Amara-prabhuh: The master of Amaras or the deathless ones, i.e. the Devas.
Manu: He who thinks.
Sthavishtah: He who excels in everything in bulk or substantiality.
Agrahyah: One who cannot be grasped by the organs or knowledge or conceived by the mind.
Krishno: The existence-Knowledge-Bliss.
Prat- ardanah: Destroyer of all at the time of cosmic dissolution.
Trikakubdhama: He who is the support (dharma) of the three regions above, below and in the middle.
Isanah: He who controls and regulates everything.
Prano: The Supreme Being.
Sreshthah: One deserving the highest praise.
Hiranyagarbho: One who is Atman of even Brahma the creator.
Madhavo: The Consort of Ma or Mahalakshmi or one who is fit to be known through Madhu-Vidya.
Ishvara: The Omnipotent Being.
Dhanvi: One armed with bow. Medhavi: He who has great intelligence capable of grasping all texts.
Kramah: Vishnu is called Kramah, because He is the cause of Kramana or crossing of the ocean of samsara by devotees, or because from Him all Krama or manifestation of the universe, has taken place.
Duradharsah: One whom none (Asuras) can overcome. Krutajnah: One who knows everything about what has been done (Kruta) by Jivas. Also one who is pleased even with those who offer such simple offerings as leaves, flowers, fruits and water.
Atmavan: One established in his own greatness i.e. requiring no other support than Himself.
Suresah sharanam sharma vishvaretah prajabhavah
Ahah samvasaro vyalah pratyayah sarvadarshanah …10
Saranam: One who removes the sorrows of those in distress.
Vishvaretah: The seed of the universe.
Ahah: Luminous one.
Vyalah: Being ungraspable like a serpent, He is called Vyalah.
Sarvadarshanah: One with eyes everywhere. As the Lord has assumed all forms, the eye-sight of all beings is His.
Ajah sarveshvarah siddhah siddhih sarvadir acyutah
Vrushakapir ameyatma sarva-yoga-vinihshrutah …11
Sarveshvarah: The Lord of all Lords or the supreme Lord.
Siddhih: One who is of the nature of Consciousness in all.
Achyutah: One who never lost and will never lose his inherent nature and powers.
Ameyatma: One whose form or nature cannot be measured and determined.
Vasur: One in whom all beings dwell and one who dwells in all beings.
Satyah: One whose nature is Truth.
Sammitah: This name and the previous (samatma) occurring together, can be split in two ways – as samatma sammitah and as samatma asammitah.
Amoghah: One whose worship will never go in vain, but will bear ample fruits.
Vrushakarma: One whose actions are according to vrushas i.e. Dharma.
Rudro: One who makes all beings cry at the time of cosmic dissolution.
Babhrur: One who governs the world.
Shuchi sravah:: One whose names and glories are very holy and purifying to be heard.
Shashvata-sthanur: One who is both eternal and firmly established, unchanging.
Mahatapah: The austerity connected with creation, which is of the nature of knowledge is of great potency.
Sarvagah sarva-vid-bhanur vishvaksheno janardanah
Vedo vedavid avyango vedango vedavit kavih..14
Sarva-vid-bhanur: One who is omniscient and illumines everything.
Janardanah: One who inflicts suffering on evil men.
Vedavid: One who knows the Veda and its meaning.
Vedango: He to whom the Vedas stand as organs.
Kavih: One who sees everything.
Lokadhyakshah suradhyaksho dharmadhyakshah krutakrutah
Chaturatma chaturvyuhas chaturdamstras chatur-bhujah ..15
Suradhyaksho: One who is the overlord of the protecting Divinities of all regions.
Krutakrutah: One who is an effect in the form of the worlds and also a non-effect as their cause.
Chaturvyuhas: One who adopts a fourfold manifestation.
Chaturbhujah: One with four arms.
Bhrajishnur-bhojanam bhokta sahishnur jagad-adhijah
Anagho vijayo jeta vishva-yonih punar-vasuh ..16
Bhojanam: Prakruti or Maya is called Bhojanam or what is enjoyed by the Lord.
Sahishnur: As He suppresses Asuras like Kiranyaksha, He is Sahishnu.
Anagho: The sinless one.
Jeta: One who is naturally victorious over beings, i.e. superior to all beings.
Punar-vasuh: One who dwells again and again in the bodies as the Jivas.
Upendro vamanah pramshur amoghah suchir urjitah
Atindrah samgrahah sargo dhrutatma niyamo yamah ..17
Vamanah: One who, in the form of Vamana (dwarf), went begging to Bali.
Amoghah: One whose acts do not go in vain.
Urjitah: One of infinite strength.
Samgrahah: One who is of the subtle form of the universe to be created.
Niyamo: One who appoints His creatures in particular stations.
Vedyo: One who has to be known by those who aspire for Mokshas.
Sada-yogi: One who is ever experienceble, being ever existent.
Madhavo: One who is the Lord or Master of Ma or knowledge.
Atindriyo: One who is not knowable by the senses.
Mahotsaho: One who is ever busy in the work of creation, sustentation and dissolution.
Mahabuddir: The wisest among the wise
Mahasaktir: One with great resources of strength and skill.
Anirdesyavapuh: One who cannot be indicated to another as: `He is this’, because He cannot be objectively known.
Ameyatma: The Spirit with intelligence that cannot be measured by any one.
Maheshvaso: One equipped with the great bow.
Shrinivasah: One on whose chest the Goddess Shri, eternal in nature, dwells.
Aniruddhah: One who has never been obstructed by any one or anything from manifesting in various forms.
Govindo: Gau means words. Thou pervadest all words, giving them power. Therefore sages call the Govinda.
Marchir: The supreme power and impressiveness seen in persons endowed with such qualities.
Hamsah: One who removes the fear of Samsara from those who practise the sense of identity with Him.
Bhujagottamah: One who is the greatest among those who move on Bhujas or arms, that is, serpents. The great serpents like Ananta and Vasuki are the powers of Vishnu, so he has come to have this name.
Sutapah: One who performs rigorous austerities at Badarikashrama as Nara and Narayana.
Prajapatih: The father of all beings, who are His children.
Amrutyuh sarva-druk simhah sandhata sandhiman sthirah
Ajo durmarshanah shasta vishrutatma surariha ..22
Sarva-druk: One who sees the Karmas of all Jivas through His inherent wisdom.
Sandhata: One who unites the Jivas with the fruits of their actions.
Sthirah: One who is always of the same nature.
Durmarshanah: One whose might the Asuras cannot bear.
Vishrutatma: One who is specially known through signifying terms like Truth, Knowledge etc.
Gurur: One who is the teacher of all forms of knowledge.
Dhama: It means brilliance.
Satya-parakamah: One of unfailing valour.
Animishah: One who is ever awake.
Vachaspatir-udaradhih: Being the master of Vak or word i.e. knowledge, He is called so. As his intellect perceives everything, He is Udaradhih. Both these epithets together constitute one name.
Agranir gramanih shriman nyayo neta samiranah
Sahsra-murdha vishvatma sahasraksha sahasrapat ..24
Gramanih: One who has the command over Bhutagrama or the collectivity of all beings.
Nyayo: The consistency which runs through all ways of knowing and which leads one to the truth of Non-duality.
Samiranah: One who in the form of breath keeps all living beings functioning.
Vishvatma: The soul of the universe.
Sahasrapat: One with a thousand, i.e. innumerable legs.
Avrtano nivrutatma samvrutah sampramardanah
Ahah samvartako vahnir anilo dharani-dharah ..25
Nivrutatma: One whose being is free or untouched by the bondage of Samsara.
Sampramardanah: One who delivers destructive blows on all beings through His Vibhutis (power manifestation like Rudra, Yama etc.).
Vahnir: One who as fire carries the offerings made to the Devas in sacrifices.
Dhanani dharah: One who supports the worlds, Adisesha, elephants of the quarters etc.
Suprasadah prasannatma vishva-dhrug vishva-bhug vibhuh
Sat-karta sat-krutah sadhur jahnur narayano narah ..26
Prasannatma: One whose mind is never contaminated by Rajas or Tamas.Vishva-dhrug: One who holds the universe by his power.
Vibhuh: One who becomes many from Hiranyagarbha downwards.
Sat-krutah: One who is adored even by those who deserve adoration.
Jahnuh: One who dissolves all beings in oneself at the time of dissolution.
Narah: He directs everything, the eternal Paramatma is called Nara”.
Asankhyeyo prameyatma visistah shishtakruch chucih
Siddharthah siddha-sankalpah siddhidah siddhisadhanah ..27
Aprameyatma: One whose nature cannot be grasped by any of the means of knowledge.
Shishtakrch: Shihstam means commandment. So, one who commands everything. Or one who protects shishtas or good men.
Siddha-sankalpah: One whose resolutions are always fulfilled.
Siddhisadhanah: One who brings fulfillment to works that deserve the same.
Vrushahi vrushabho vishnur vrushaparva vrushodarah
Vardhano vardhamanascha viviktah shruti-sagarah ..28
Vrushabho: One who showers on the devotees all that they pray for.
Vrushaparva: One who has given as steps (Parvas), observances of the nature of Dharma, to those who want to attain the supreme state.
Vardhamanascha: One who multiplies in the form of the universe.
Shruti-sagarah: One to whom all the shruti or Vedic words and sentences flow.
Subhujo durdharo vagmi mahendro vasodo vasuh
Naikarupo bruhad-rupah shipivishtah prakashana ..29
Durdharo: One who holds up the universe – a work which none else can do.
Mahendro: The great Lord, that is, the Supreme Being, who is the God of all gods.
Vasuh: One who is himself theVasu.
Bruhad-rupah: One who has adopted mysterious forms like that of a Boar.
Prakashana: One who illumines everthing.
Ojas tejo dyuti-dharah prakashatma pratapanah
Vruddhah spahstaksharo mantras chandramshur bhaskaradyutih ..30
Prakashatma: One whose form is radiant.
Vruddhah: One who is rich in excellences like Dharma, Gyana (knowledge), Vairagya (renunciation) etc.
Mantras: One who manifests as the Mantras of the Rk, Sama, Yajus etc., or one who is known through Mantras.
Bhaaskaradyutih -The Effulgence of the Sun. Sun is the centre of the solar system, an eternal exchequer of energy, ever distributing Life and Strength to all living upon the earth; life would have been impossible but for the Sun. At the same time, the Sun stays where he is and he never interferes with life; from afar he blesses life. The Lord who thus from afar blesses by His mere presence is the true Sun of Life, the Atman, the Self- Sree Maha Vishnu
Amrtamshu dbhavo bhanuh shashabinduh sureshvarah
Aushadham jagatah setuh satya-dharma-prarakramah ..31
Bhanuh: One who shines.
Sureshvarah: One who is the Lord of all Devas and those who do good.
Jagatah setuh: One who is the aid to go across the ocean of Samsara.
Bhuta-bhavya-bhavan-na- thah: One who is the master for all the beings of the past, future and present.
Pavano: One who causes movement.
Kamaha: One who destroys the desire-nature in seekers after liberation.
Kantah: One who is extremely beautiful.
Kamapradah: One who liberally fulfils the desires of devotees.
Yugadikrud: One who is the cause of periods of time like Yuga.
Naikamayo: One who can assume numerous forms of Maya, not one only.
Adrushyo: One who cannot be grasped by any of the five organs of knowledge.
Sahasrajid: One who is victorious over innumerable enemies of the Devas in battle.
Ishto: One who is dear to all because He is of the nature of supreme Bliss.
Shishtestah: One who is dear to shishta or Knowing Ones.
Vrushah: One who is of the form of Dharma.
Krodhakrut karta: One who generates Krodha or anger in evil people.
Mahidharah: Mahi means both earth and worship. So the name means one who supports the earth or receives all forms of worship.
Achyutah prathitah pranah pranado vasavanujah
Apam-nidhir adhishthanam apramattah pratishtitah ..35
Prathitah: One who is famous because of His works like creation of the worlds etc.
Pranado: One who bestows Prana, that is, strength, on Devas and Asuras and also destroys them by withdrawing it.
Apam-nidhir: The word means collectivity of water or the ocean.
Apramattah: One who is always vigilant in awarding the fruits of actions to those who are entiled to them.
Skandah: One who drives everything as air.
Dhuryo: One who bears the weight of the burden of all beings in the form of birth etc.
Vayuvahanah: One who vibrates the seven Vayus or atmospheres beginning with Avaha.
Bruhad-bhanur: The great brilliance.
Purandarah: One who destroys the cities of the enemies of Devas.
Ashokas-taranas-tarah surah saurir janeshvarah
Anukulah shatavartah padmi padma-nibhekshanah ..37
Taranas: One who uplifts beings from the ocean of samsara.
Surah: One of great prowess, that is, who fulfils the four supreme satisfactions of life – Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha.
Janeshvarah: The Lord of all beings.
Shatavartah: One who has had several Avataras or incarnations.
Padma-nibhekshana- h: One with eyes resembling lotus.
Padmanabho aravindakshah padmagarbhah sarirabhrut
Mahardhir ruddho vruddhatma mahaksho garuda-dhvajah ..38
Aravindakshah: One whose eyes resemble Aravinda or the Lotus.
Sarirabhrut: One who supports the bodies of beings, strengthening them in the form of Anna (Food) and Prana.
Ruddho: One who is seen as standing in the form of the world.
Mahaksho: One who has got two or many glorious eyes.
Atulah: One who cannot be compared to anything else.
Bhimah: One of whom everyone is afraid.
Havir-harih: One who takes the portion of offerings (Havis) in Yajnas.
Lakshmivan: One on whose chest the Goddess Lakshmi is always residing.
Viksharo: One who is without Kshara or desruction.
Margah: One who is sought after by persons seeking Moksha or Liberation.
Damodarah: One who has very benevolent mind because of disciplines like self-control.
Mahidharo: One who props up the earth in the form of mountain.
Vegavan: One of tremendous speed.
Udbhavah: One who is the material cause of creation.
Devan: `Divyati’ means sports oneself through creation and other cosmic activities.
Parameshvarah: `Parama’ means the supreme. `Ishvarah’ means one who hold sway over all beings.
Kaaranam: He who is the most important factor in the generation of this universe.
Vikarta: One who makes this unique universe.
Guhah: One who hides one’s own nature with the help of His power of Maya.
Vyavasayo vyavasthanah samsthanah sthanado dhruvah
Parardhih parama-spashtas tushtah pushtah subhekshanah ..42
Vyavasthanah: He in whom the orderly regulation of the universe rests.
Sthanado: One who gives their particular status to persons like Dhruva according to their Karma.
Parardhih: One who possesses lordliness of this most exalted type.
Tushtah: One who is of the nature of supreme.
Subhekshanah: One whose Ikshanam or vision bestows good on all beings that is, gives liberation to those who want Moksha and enjoyments to those who are after it, and also cuts asunder the knots of the heart by eliminating all doubts.
Ramo viramo virato margo neyo nayonayah
Veera shaktimatam shreshtho dharmo dharma-vid uttamah ..43
Viramo: One in whom the Virama or end of all beings takes place.
Margo: That path by knowing which the liberation-seeking ascetics attain to immortality.
Nayo: One who leads, that is, who is the leader in the form of spiritual illumination.
Veera: One who is valorous.
Dharmah: One who supports all beings.
Vaikunthah: The bringing together of the diversified categories is Vikuntha. He who is the agent of it is Vaikunthah.
Pranah: One who lives as Kshetrajana (knower in the body) or one who functions in the form of vital force called Prana.
Pranavah: One who is praised or to whom prostration is made with Om.
Hiranya-garbhah: He who was the cause of the golden-coloured egg out of which Brahma was born.
Vyaptah: One who as the cause pervades all effects.
Adhokshajah: He is Adhokshaja because he undergoes no degeneration from His original nature.
Rituh sudarshanah kalah parameshti parigrahah
Ugrah samvatsaro daksho vishramo vishva-dakshinah ..45
Sudarshanah: One whose Darshana or vision that is knowledge, bestows the most auspicious fruit Moksha.
Parameshti: One who dwells in his supreme greatness in the sky of the heart.
Ugrah: One who is the cause of fear even to beings like Sun.
Vishramah: One who bestows Vishrama or liberation to aspirants who seek relief from the ocean of Samsara with its waves of various tribulations in the from of Hunger, Thirst etc., and difficulties like Avidya, pride, infatuation etc.,
Vistarah: One in whom all the worlds have attained manifestation.
Pramanam: One who is of the nature of pure consciousness.
Arthah: One who is sought (Arthita) by all, as He is of the nature of bliss.
Mahakosho: One who has got as His covering the great Koshas like Annamaya, Pranamaya etc.
Mahadhanah: One who has got the whole universe as the wealth (Dhana) for His enjoyment.
Anirvinnah sthavishtho abhoohr dharma-yupo maha-makhah
Nakshatra-nemir nakshatri kshamah kshamah samihanah ..47
Sthavishtah: One of huge proportions, because He is in the form of cosmic person.
Dharma Yupah: The sacrificial post for Dharmas, that is, one to whom all the forms of Dharma, which are His own form of worship, are attached, just as a sacrificial animal is attached to a Yupa or a sacrificial post.
Nakshatra nemir: The heart of all nakshatras.
Kshamah: One who is clever in everything.
Samihanah: One who exerts well for creation etc.
Yajna ijyo mahejyas cha kratuh satram satamgatih
Sarvadarshi vimuktatma sarvagyo gynanam-uttamam ..48
Ijayah: One who is fit to be worshipped in sacrifices.
Kratuh: A Yajna in which there is a sacrificial post is Kratu.
Satamgatih: One who is the sole support for holy men who are seekers of Moksha.
Vimuktatma: One who is naturally free.
Gynanam uttamam: That consciousness which is superior to all, birthless, unlimited by time and space and the cause of all achievements.
Suvratah sumukhah sukshmah sughoshah sukhadah suhrut
Manoharo jita-krodho virabahur vidaranah ..49
Sumukhah: One with a pleasant face.
Sughoshah: One whose auspicious sound is the Veda. Or one who has got a deep and sonorous sound like the clouds.
Suhrut: One who helps without looking for any return.
Jitakrodho: One who has overcome anger.
Vidaranah: One who destroys those who live contrary to Dharma.
Svapanah svavasho vyapi naikatma naika-karma-krut
Vatsaro vatsalo vatsi ratna-garbho dhaneshvarah ..50
Svavasho: One who is dominated by oneself and not anything else, as He is the cause of the whole cosmic process.
Naikatma: One who manifests in different forms as the subsidiary agencies causing the various cosmic processes.
Vatsaro: One in whom everything dwells.
Vatsi: One who protects those who are dear to Him.
Dhaneshvarah: One who is the Lord of all wealth.
Dharmagub dharmakrud dharmi sad-asatksharam aksharam
Avigyata sahashramsur vidhata kruta-lakshanah ..51
Dharmakrud: Though above. Dharma and Adharma, He performs Dharma in order to keep up the traditions in respect of it.
Sad: The Parabrahman who is of the nature of truth.
Ksharam: All beings subjected to change.
Avigyata: One who is without the attributes of a Jiva or vigyata like sense of agency etc.
Vidhata: One who is the unique support of all agencies like Ananta who bear the whole universe.
Gabhasti-nemih: He who dwells in the middle of Gabhasti or rays as the Sun.
Simho: One who ahs irresistible power like a lion.
Adidevo: He who is the first of all beings.
Devesah: One who is the lord of all Devas, being the most important among them.
Uttaro: One who is Uttirna or liberated from Samsara.
Gopta: One who is the protector of all beings.
Puratanah: One who is not limited by time and who existed before anything else.
Bhokta: One who protects. Or one who is the enjoyer of infinite bliss.
Bhuridakshinah: One to whom numerous Dakshinas or votive offerings are made in Yagyas.
Somapo amrutapah somah purujit purushottamah
Vinayo jayah satyasandho dasharhah satvatampatih ..54
Amrutapah: One who drinks the drink of immortal Bliss which is of one’s own nature.
Purujit: One who gains victory over numerous people.
Vinayo: One who inflicts Vinaya or punishment on evil ones.
Satyasandho: One whose `Sandha’ or resolve becomes always true.
Satvatampatih: `Satvatam’ is the name of a Tantra. So the one who gave it out or commented upon it.
Jivo vinayita-sakshi mukundo amita vikramah
Ambhonidhir anantatma mahodadhishayonatakah ..55
Vinayita-sakshi: One who witnesses the Vinayita or worshipful attitude of all devotees.
Amita vikramah: One whose three strides were limitless.
Anantatma: One who cannot be determined by space, time and causation.
Antakah: One who brings about the end of all beings.
Ajo maharhah svabhavyo jitamitrah pramodanah
Anando nandano nandah satya-dharma trivikramah ..56
Maharhah: One who is fit for worship.
Jitamitrah: One who has conquered the inner enemies like attachment, anger etc. as also external enemies like Ravana, Kumbhakarna etc.
Anando: One whose form is Ananda or Bliss.
Nandah: One endowed with all perfections.
Trivikramah: One whose three strides covered the whole world.
Maharshih kapilacharyah krutagyo medini-patih
Tripadas tridashadhyaksho mahashrungah krutantakrut ..57
Krutagyo: Kruta means the world because it is of the nature of an effect.
Tripadas: One having three strides.
Mahashrungah: One with a great antenna.
Mahavaraho: The great Cosmic Boar.
Sushenah: One who has got about Him an armed guard in the shape of His eternal associates.
Guhyo: One who is to be known by the Guhya or the esoteric knowledge conveyed by the Upanishads. Or one who is hidden in the Guha or heart.
Gahano: One who could be entered into only with great difficulty. One who is the witness of the three states of waking, dreams and sleep as also their absence.
Chakra-gada-dharah: One who has discus and Gada in hand.
Vedhah svango ajitah krishno drudhah sankarshano acyutah
Varuno vaaruno vrukshah pushkaraksho mahamanah ..59
Svango: One who is oneself the participant in accomplishing works.
Krishno: One who is known as Krishna-dvaipayana.
Sankarshano- Acyutah: Sankarshana is one who attracts to oneself all beings at the time of cosmic Dissolution and Acyuta is one who knows no fall from His real nature. They form one word with the first as the qualification – Acyuta who is sankarshana.
Vaaruno: Vasishta or Agastya, the sons of Varuna.
Pushkaraksho: One who shines as the light of consciousness when meditated upon in the lotus of the heart. Or one who has eyes resembling the lotus.
Bhagavan: The origin, dissolution, the bondage and salvation of creatures, knowledge, ignorance – one who knows all these is Bhagavan.
Anandi: One whose nature is Ananda (bliss).
Halayudhah: One who in His incarnation as Balabhadra had Hala or ploughshare as His weapon.
Jyotir-adityah: One who dwells in the brilliance of the sun’s orb.
Gatisattamah: One who is the ultimate resort and support of all, and the greatest of all beings.
Sudhanva-khandaparashur- -daruno dravinapradah
Divah-spruk sarva-drug vyaso vachaspatir ayonijah ..61
Khanda-parashur: The battle-axe that destroys enemies.
Dravinapradah: One who bestows the desired wealth on devotees.
Sarva-drug vyaso: One whose comprehension includes everything in its ambit.
Trisama: One who is praised by the chanters of Sama-gana through the three Samas known as Devavratam.
Sama: Among the Vedas, I am Sama Veda.
Bheshajam: The medicine for the disease of Samsara.
Sanyasakrut: One who instituted the fourth Ashrama of Sanyasa for the attainment of Moksha.
Santo: The peaceful, being without interest in pleasures of the world.
Santih: One in whom there is complete erasing of Avidya or ignorance. That is Brahman.
Shubhangah: One with a handsome form.
Srashta: One who brought forth everything at the start of the creative cycle.
Kuvalesayah: ‘Ku’ means earth. That which surrounds it is water, so ‘Kuvala’ means water. One who lies in water is Kuvalesaya. ‘Kuvala’ also means the underside of serpents. One wholies on a serpent, known as Adisesha, is Kuvalesaya.
Gopatir: The Lord of the earth is Vishnu.
Vrushabhaksho: One whose eyes can rain all desirable objects on devotees. Vrushabha means Dharma and so one whose look is Dharma.
Anivarti: One who never retreats in the battle with Asuras. Or one who, being devoted to Dharma, never abandons it.
Samkshepta: One who at the time of cosmic dissolution contracts the expansive universe into a subtle state.
Chivah: One who purifies everyone by the very utterance of His name.
Shrivasah: One on whose chest Shridevi always dwells.
Shrimatam-varah: One who is supreme over all deities like Brahma who are endowed with power and wealth of the Vedas.
Shridah shrishah shrinivasah shrinidhih shri-vibhavanah
Shridharah shrikarah shreyah shriman loka-trayashrayah ..65
Shrishah: One who is Lord of the Goddess Shri.
Shrinidhih: One who is the seat of all Shri, that is, virtues and powers.
Shridharah: One who bears on His chest Shri who is the mother of all.
Shreyah: ‘Shreyas’ means the attainment of what is un-decaying good and happiness. Such a state is the nature of the Lord.
Loka-trayashrayah: One who is the support of all the three worlds.
Svakshah svangah shatanando nandir jyotir-ganeshvarah
Vijitatma vidheyatma satkirtischinna-samsayah ..66
Svangah: One whose limbs are beautiful.
Nandir: One who is of the nature of supreme Bliss.
Vijitatma: One who has conquered the Atma that is the mind.
Satkriti: One whose fame is of the nature of truth.
Udirnah: He who is superior to all beings.
Anisah: One who cannot have anyone to lord over him.
Bhushayo: One who, while seeking the means to cross over to Lanka, had to sleep on the ground of the sea-beach.
Bhutir: One who is the abode or the essence of everthing, or is the source of all glorious manifestations.
Shokanashanah: One who effaces the sorrows of devotees even by mere remembrance.
Archishman architah kumbho vishuddhatma vishodhanah
Aniruddho pratirathah pradyumno amita-vikramah ..68
Architah: One who is worshipped by Brahma and other Devas who are themselves the objects of worship in all the worlds.
Vishuddhatma: Being above the three Gunas, Satva, Rajas and Tamas, the Lord is pure spirit and is also free from all impurities.
Aniruddho: The last one of the four Vyuhas – Vasudeva, Samkarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. Or one who, cannot be obstructed by enemies.
Pradyumno: One whose Dyumna or wealth is of a superior and sacred order. Or one of the four Vyuhas.
Kalanemi-niha: One who destroyed the Asura named Kalanemi.
Saurih: One who was born in the clan of Sura as Krishna.
Trilokatma: One who in his capacity as the inner pervade is the soul for the three worlds.
Keshavah: By Kesha is meant the rays of light spreading within the orbit of the sun.
Harih: One who destroys Samsara, that is, entanglement in the cycle of birth and death along with ignorance, its cause.
Kamadevah kamapalah kami kantah krutagamah
Anirdeshya-vapur vishnur viro ananto dhananjayah ..70
Kamapalah: One who protects or assures the desired ends of people endowed with desires.
Kantah: One whose form is endowed with great beauty. Or one who effects the ‘Anta’ or dissolution of ‘Ka’ or Brahma at the end of a Dviparardha. (the period of Brahma’s lifetime extending over a hundred divine years).
Anirdeshya-vapur: He is called so, because, being above the Gunas, His form cannot be determined.
Viro: One who has the power of Gati or movement.
Dhananjayah: Arjuna is called so because by his conquest of the kingdoms in the four quarters he acquired great wealth. Arjuna is a Vibhuti, a glorious manifestation of the Lord.
Brahmanyo brahmakrud-brahma brahma brahma-vivardhanah
Brahmavid brahmano brahmi brahmgno brahmana-priyah ..71
Brahmakrud: One who performs Brahma or Tapas (austerity).
Brahma: Being big expanding, the Lord who is known from indications like Satya (Truth), is called Brahma. Or Brahma is Truth, Knowledge and Infinity!
Brahmavid : One who knows the Vedas and their real meaning.
Brahmi: One in whom is established such entities as Tapas, Veda, mind, Prana etc. which are parts of Brahma and which are also called Brahma.
Brahmanapriyah: One to whom holy men are devoted.
Mahakramo mahakarma mahateja mahoragah
Mahakratur mahayajva mahayagyo mahahavih ..72
Mahakarma: One who is performing great works like the creation of the world.
Mahoragah: He is also the great serpent.
Mahayajva: One who is great and performs sacrifices for the good of the world.
Mahahavih: The whole universe conceived as Brahman and offered as sacrificial offering (Havis) into the fire of the Self, which is Brahman.
Stavyah Stavapriyah stotram stutih stota ranapriyah
Purnah purayita punyah punyakirtir anamayah ..73
Stavapriyah: One who is pleased with hymns.
Stutih: A praise.
Ranapriyah: One who is fond of fight for the protection of the world, and for the prupose always sports in His hands the five weapons, the discus Sudarshana, the mace Kaumodaki, the bow Saranga, and the sword Nandaka besides the conch Panchajanya.
Purayita: One who is not only self-fulfilled but gives all fulfillments to others.
Punyakirtir: One of holy fame. His excellences are capable of conferring great merit on others.
Manojavas: One who, being all pervading, is said to be endowed with speed likes that of the mind.
Vasureta: He whose Retas (Semen) is gold (Vasu).
Vasuprado: One who bestows on devotees the highest of all wealth, namely Moksha.
Vasur: He in whom all creation dwells.
Havih: Havis or sacrificial offerings
Sadgatih sat-krutih satta sad-bhutih sat-parayanah
Suraseno yadushreshthah sannivasah suyamunah ..75
Sat-krutih: One whose achievements are for the protection of the world.
Sad-bhutih: The Paramatman who is pure existence and conscousness, who is unsublatable and who manifests Himself in many ways.
Suraseno: One having an army of heroic wariours like Hanuman.
Sannivasah: One who is the resort of holy knowing ones.
Bhutavaso: He in whom all the beings dwell.
Sarvasu-nilayo: He in whose form as the Jiva all the vital energy or Prana of all living beings dissolves.
Darpaha: One who puts down the pride of persons who walk along the unrighteous path.
Drupto: One who is ever satisfied by the enjoyment of His own inherent bliss.
Aparajita: One who is never conquered by internal enemies like attachment and by external enemies like Asuras.
Vishvamurtir mahamurtir diptamurtir amurtiman
Anekamurtir avyaktah shatamurtih shatananah ..77
Mahamurtir: One with an enormous form stretched on a bedstead constituted of the serpent Adisesha.
Amurtiman: He who is without a body born of Karma.
Avyaktah: One who cannot be clearly described as ‘This’ even though He has many forms.
Shatananah: He is called one with a hundred faces to indicate that He has several forms.
Eko naikah savah kah kim yat tat padam-anuttamam
Lokabandhur lokanatho madhavo bhakta-vastalah ..78
Naikah: One who has numerous bodies born of Maya.
Kah: The syllable ‘Ka’ indicatesjoy or happiness. So it means one who is hymned as constituted of joy.
Yat: One who is by nature existent. The word ‘Yat’ indicates a self-subsisting entity.
Padam-anuttamam: Braman is ‘Pada’ or Status, because He is the goal of all Moksha-seekers. It is Anuttama, because It is that beyond which there is nothing else to be attained.
Lokanathah: One to whom all the worlds pray.
Bhaktavatsalah: One who has got love for devotees.
Suvarna varno hemango varangas chandanangadi
Viraha vishamah sunyo ghrutasir achalaschalah ..79
Hemango: One whose form is like that of gold.
Chandanangadi: One who is adorned with armlets that generate joy.
Vishamah: One to whom there is no euql because nothing is comparable to Him by any characteristic.
Ghrutasir: One whose blessings are unfailing.
Chalah: One who moves in the form of air.
Amani manado manyo lokasvami triloka-dhruk
Sumedha medhajo dhanyah satyamedha dharadharah ..80
Manado: One who by His power of Maya induces the sense of self in non-self. Or one who has regard and beneficence towards devotees. Or one who destroys in the knowing ones the sense of identification with the non-self.
Lokasvami: One who is the Lord of all the fourteen spheres.
Sumedha: One with great and beneficent intelligence.
Dhanyah: One who has attained all His ends and therefore is self-satisfied.
Dharadharah: One who supports the worlds by His fractiosn like Adisesha.
Tejovrusho dyuti-dharah sarva-shastra-bhrutam-varah
Pra- grahonigraho vyagro naikashrungo gadagrajah ..81
Dyuti-dharah: One whose form is always brilliant.
Pragraho: One who accepts the offerings of devotees with great delight.
Vyagro: One who has no Agra or end. Or one who is very attentive (Vyagra) in granting the prayers of devotees.
Gadagrajah: One who is revealed first by Mantra (Nigada). Or one who is the elder rbother of Gada.
Chaturmurtis chaturbahus chaturvyuhas chaturgatih
Chaturatma chaturbhavas chaturvedavid ekapat ..82
Chaturbahus: One with four arms, as Vasudeva is always described.
Chatur-gatih: One who is sought as the end by the four Orders of life and four Varnas ordained by the scriptures.
Chaturbhavas: One from whom has originated the four human values – Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha.
Ekapat: One with a single Pada, part or leg. Or one with a single foot or manifestation.
Samavarto anivrutatma durjayo duratikramah
Durlabho durgamo durgo duravaso durariha ..83
Anivrutatma: One who is not Nivruta (separated from) anything or anywhere, because He is all-pervading.
Duratikramah: One out of fear of whom, even heavenly objects like sun do not dare to oppose His command.
Durgamo: One whom it is difficult to attain.
Duravaso: He whom the Yogis with very great difficulty bring to reside in their hearts in Samadhi.
Shubhango: One whose form is very auspicious to meditate upon.
Sutantus: As this universe of infinite extension belongs to Him, the Lord is called Sutantu.
Indrakarma: One whose actions are like that of Indra, that is, are of a highly commendable nature.
Krutakarma: One who has fulfilled everything and has nothing more to accomplish.
Udbhavah: One who assumes great and noble embodiments out of His own will.
Sundo: One who is noted for extreme tenderness (Undanam).
Sulochanah: One who has brilliant eyes, that is, knowledge of everything.
Vajasanah: One who gives Vajam (food) to those who entreat Him.
Jayantah: One who conquers enemies easily.
Suvarna-bindur: One whose ‘Bindus’ that is, limbs, are euaql to gold in brilliance.
Sarva-vagishvareshv- arah: One who is the master of all masters of learning, including Brahma.
Maha-garto: One whose Maya is difficult to cross like a ddp pit.
Mahanidhih: One in whom all the great elements have their support. He is Mahan or a great one and ‘Nidhi’, the most precious one.
Kumudah kundarah kundah parjanyah pavano anilah
Amrutasho amrutavapuh sarvagyah sarvato-mukha ..87
Kundarah: One who offers blessings as pure as Kunda or jasmine.
Parjanyah: The word means cloud. One who resembles the cloud in extinguishing the three Tapas (heats, that is, miseries) arising from psychological, material and spiritual causes. Or one who rains all desires like a cloud.
Anilah: ‘Ilanam’ means inducement. One who is without any inducement is Anila. Ilana also means sleep. So one who sleeps not or is ever awake is Anila.
Amrutavapuh: One whose form is deathless, that is, undecaying.
Sarvatomukhah: One who has faces everywhere.
Sulabhah suvratah siddhah shatru-jit shatru-tapanah
Nyagrodho adumbaro-svatthas chanurandhra-nishudhanah ..88
Suvratah: ‘Vratati’ means enjoys. So, one who enjoys pure offerings. It can also mean one who is a non-enjoyer, that is, a mere witness.
Shatru-jit: Conqueror of all forces of evil.
Nyagrodho: That which remains above all and grows downward. That is, He is the source of everything that is manifest.
Asvatthas: That which does not last even for the next day.
Sahasrarchi: One with innumerable Archis or rays.
Saptaidhah: The Lord who is of the nature of fire has seven Edhas or forms of brilliance.
Amurtir: One who is without sins or without sorrow.
Bhayakrud: One who generates fear in those who go along the evil path. Or one who cuts at the root of all fear.
Anur: One who is extremely subtle.
Krusah: One who is non-material.
Gunabrun: The support of the Gunas. He is so called because in the creative cycle of creation, sustentation, and dissolution, He is the support of the Gunas – Satva, Rajas and Tamas – with which these functions are performed.
Mahan: The great.
Svadhrutah: One supported by oneself.
Pragvamsho: The family lines of others are preceded by the lines of still others, but the Lord’s descendent, namely, the world system, is not preceded by anything else.
Bhara-bhrut: One who bears the weight of the earth assuming the form of Ananta.
Yogi: Yoga here means knowledge. So He who is attained by that is Yogi. Or Yoga means Samadhi. He who is ever established in His own Self, that is, the Paramatma. He is therefore Yogi.
Sarva-kamadah: One who bestows all desired fruits.
Shramanah: One who brings tribulations to those who live without using their discriminative power.
Suparnah: The lord who has manifested Himself as the tree of Samsara has excellent leaves (Parna) in the form of Vedic passages (Chandas).
Dhanurdharo: He who as Rama wielded the great bow.
Dando: He who is discipline among the disciplinarians.
Damah: He who is in the form of self-descipline in men as a result of enforcement.
Sarvasaho: One who is expert in all Karmas (works).
Aniyamo: One on whom there is no enforcement of any law, or above whom there can be no overlord to enforce anything, as He is the controller of everything.
Satvavan: One who has got the strengthening qualities like heroism, prowess etc.
Satyah: One who is truly established in good people.
Abhiprayah: The One who is sought after by those who seek the ultimate values of life (Purushartha).
Arhah: One who deserves to be worshipped with all the ingredients and rites of worship like offerings, praise, prostration etc.
Pritivardhanah: One who enhances the joys of devotees.
Vihayasagatir jyotih suruchir huta-bhug vibhuh
Ravir virochanah suryah savita ravilochanah ..94
Jyotih: One who is the light of self-luminous consciousness that reveals oneself as well as other things.
Huta-bhug: One who eats, that is, receives, whatever is offered to whatever deities (Devas) in all sacrifices.
Ravir: One who absorbs all Rasas (fluids) in the form of the Sun.
Suryah: One who generates Shri or brilliance in Surya. Or Agni (Fire) is what is called Surya.
Ravi-lochanah: One having the sun as the eye.
Ananto huta-bhug bhokta sukhado naikajo-grajah
Anirvinnah sadamarshi lokadhishthana-madbhutah ..95
Hutabhuk: One who consumes what is offered in firesacrifices.
Sukhado: One who bestows liberation (Miksha) on devotees.
Agrajah: One who was born before everything else, that is, Hiranya-garbha.
Sadamarshi: One who is always patient towards good men.
Adbhutah: The wonderful being.
Sanat sanatana-tamah kapilah kapir avyayah
Svastidah svastikrut svasti svastibhuk svasti-dakshinah ..96
Sanatana-tamah: Being the cause of all, He is more ancient than Brahma and other beings, who are generally considered eternal.
Kapir: ‘Ka’ means water. One who drinks or absorbs all water by his Kapi, that is, the sun.
Svastikrut: One who works bestowing what is good.
Svastibhuk: One who enjoys the Svasti mentioned above or who preserves the Svasti of devotees.
Araudrah: Action, attachment and anger these three are Raudra. The Lord is one whose desires are all accomplished, so He has no attachment or aversion. So He is free from theRaudras mentioned above.
Chakri: One who sports in his hand the discus named Sudarshana, which is the category known as Manas, for the protection of all the worlds.
Urjita-shasanah: One whose dictates in the form of shrutis and smrutis are of an extremely sublime nature.
Sabdasahah: One who is the purport of all Vedas.
Sarvari-karah: For those in bondage, the Atman is like Sarvari (night) and for an enlightened one the state of samsara is like night (Sarvari). So the Lord is called the one who generates Sarvari or night for both the enlightened and the bound ones.
Akrurah peshalo daksho dakshinah kshiminam varah
Vidvattamo vitabhayah punya-shravana-kirtanah ..98
Peshalo: One who is handsome in regard to His actions, mind, word and body.
Dakshinah: This word is also means the same as the above Nama.
Vidvattamo: He who has got the unsurpassable and all-inclusive knowledge of everything.
Punya-shravana-kirt- anah: One to hear about whom and to sing of whom is meritorious.
Uttarano dushkrutiha punyo duh-svapna-nasanah
Viraha rakshanah santo jivanah paryavasthitah ..99
Dushkrutiha: One who effaces the evil effects of evil actions. Or one who destroys those who perform evil.
Duh-svapna-nasanah: When adored and meditated upon, He saves one from dreams foreboding danger. Hence He is called so.
Rakshanah: One who, assuming the Satvaguna, protects all the three worlds.
Jivanah: One who supports the lives of all beings as Prana.
Ananta-rupo: One who has innumerable forms, as He dwells in this all-comprehending universe.
Jitamanyur: One who has overcome anger.
Chaturashro: One who is just, because He bestows on Jivas the fruits of their Karma.
Vidisho: One who distributes various furits of actions to persons differing in their forms according to competency.
Dishah: One who in the form of the Vedas bestows the fruits of their ritualistic actions on different beings.
Anadi bhurbhuvo lakshmih suviro ruchirangadah
Janano janajanmadir bhimo bhima-parakramah ..101
Bhurbhuvo: ‘Bhu’ means support. One who is the support (Bhu) of even the earth, which is known to support all things.
Suviro: One who has many brilliant ways of manifestation.
Janano: One who gives brith to living beings.
Bhimo: One who is the cause of fear.
Adharanilayo: One who is the support of even all the basic supporting factors like the five elements – Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.
Pushpahasah: One whose manifestation as the universe resembles the Hasa or blooming of buds into flowers.
Urdhvagah: One who is above everything.
Pranadah: One who givesback life to dead ones as in the case of Parikshit.
Panah: It comes from the root ‘Prana’ meaning transaction. So one who bestows the fruits of Karma on all according to their Karma.
Prmanam prananilayah pranabhrut pranajivanah
Tatvam tatvavidekatma janma-mrutyu-jaratigah ..103
Prananilayah: The home or dissolving ground of the Pranas.
Pranajivanah: He who keeps alive human beings with Vayus (airs) known as Prana, Apana etc., Tattvam: “the Reality” –that which is eternal, the essence. “That which one gains in subjective realization is the self,” Sree Narayana
Ekatma: One who is the sole being and the spirit (Atma) in all.
Bhur-bhuvah-svastarus: The three Vyahrutis Bhuh, Bhuvah, Svah are said to be the essence of the Veda.
Prapitamahah: One who is the father of Brahma and therefore the grandfather of all.
Yagya-patir: One who is the protector and the master of the Yagyas.
Yagyango: All the parts of His body as the incarnate Cosmic Boar are identified with the parts of a yagya.
Yagyabhrud: He is so called, because He is the protector and supporter of all yagyas.
Yagyi: One who is the Principal.
Yagyasadhanah: One to whom the Yagya is the approach.
Yagyaguhyam: The gyana yagya or the sacrifice of knowledge, which is the esoteric (Guhyam) of all the yagyams.
Annada eva cha: One who is the eater of the whole world as food. The word Eva is added to show that He is also Anna, the food eaten.
Atmayonih svayamjato vaikhanah samagayanah
Devaki-nandanah srashtha kshitishah papanashanah ..106
Svayam-jato: He is also the instrumental cause.
Samagayanah: One who recites the Sama chants.
Srashtha: The creator of all the worlds.
Papanashanah: He who destroys the sins of those who adore Him, meditate upon Him, remember and sing hymns of praise on Him.
Shankhabrun -nandaki chakri sharangadhnva gadadharah
Rathanga panirakshobhyah sarva-praharanayudhah ..107
Nandaki: One who has in His hand the sword known as Nandaka, which stands for Vidya (spiritual illumination).
Sharnga-dhanvaa :“One who aims his unerring bow called Saarnga.” This bow of Narayana is glorified in our texts as representing the Ego, as the ‘apex’ of all the sense organs, Ahankaara-Tattva. In this concluding Stanza, the instruments of Blessing in sree Narayana’s hands are remembered with reverence and devotion.
Rathangapani: One in whose hand is a wheel (Chakra).
Sarva-praharana-yudha- h: There is no rule that the Lord has got only the above-mentioned weapons. All things, which can be used for contacting or striking, are His weapons.
1. (In the above verses have been given a complete enumeration of the thousand divine names of the the Great Being Keshava, who is the fit object for all praise and prayer.)
(Nothing evil or inauspicious will befall a man here or hereafter who daily hears or repeats these names)
Vedan-tago bramhana-syat kshatriyo vijayee bavet
Vaisyo dhana-samru-ddhasyat shhoodra sukha mavap-nuyat
Dharmarthee prapnu-yatdharmam artharthee chartha mapnuyat
Kamana-vapnuyat-kamee prajarthee chapnu-yat-prajam
5.Bhaktimaan Yah Sadotthyaaya Suchis-tadgata Maanasahah
Sahasram Vaasudevasya Naamnaam Etat Prakeertayet
(Whichever devoted man, getting up early in the morning and purifying himself, repeats this hymn devoted to Vaasudeva, with a mind that is concentrated on Him.. )
6. Yashah Prapnoti Vipulam Jnaati Praadhaanyam Eva Cha
Achalaam Sriyam Aapnoti Sreyah Praapnotyanuttamam
(That man attains to great fame, leadership among his peers, wealth that is secure and the supreme good unsupassed by anything....)
7. Na Bhayam Kvachid Aapnoti Veeryam Tejasya Vindati
Bhavatyarogo Dyutimaan Bala-roopa-gunaanvitahah
(He will be free from all fears and be endowed with great courage and energy and he will be free from diseases. Beauty of form, strength of body and mind, and virtuous character will be natural to him.)
8. Rogarto muchyate rogat baddho muchyeta bandhanat Bhaya nmuchyeta bheetastu muchye tapanna apadha
9.Durganya-titara tyashu purushah purusho-ttamam Stuva nnama-saha-srena nityam bhakti saman-vitah
10. Vaasudeva-ashrayo Martyo Vaasudeva Paraayanahah
Sarva Paapa Vishudhaatmaa Yaati Brahma Sanaatanam
(Free from all sins, a man devoted to Vaasudeva and completely dependent on Him attains to the eternal status of Brahman.)
11.Na vasu-deva bhakta-nam ashubham vidyate kvachit
Janma mrithyu jara vyadhi bhayam naivapa jayate
(No inauspicious things can happen to a devotee of Vasudeva. The person will conquer the cycle of birth, death, fear and disease.)
12.Emam stava madhee-yanah shraddha-bhakti sama-nvitah
Yujye tatam sukha-kshantih shree-dhrati smruti keertibhih
(One who reads this hymn every day with devotion and attention attains peace of mind, patience, prosperity, mental stability, memory and reputation.)
13.Na krodho na matsaryam na lobho na shubha-matih
Bhavanti kruta punyanam bhakta-nam puru-shottame
(Such a person is not caught by anger, binding, jealousy, or any inauspicious event. Such a bhakta becomes a "punyatma" and merges with the Purshottama (i.e. supreme being))
14.Dhyou sachan-drarka nakshatra kham disho bhoorma-hodadhih
Vasu-devasya veeryena vidhrutani mahat-manah
15.Sa-sura-sura gandharvam sa-yaksho-raga raksha-sam
Jaga-dvashe varta-tedam krishnasya sachara-charam
16.Indri-yani mano-buddhih satvam tejo-balam dhrutih
Vasu-devatma kanyahuh kshetram-kshetragyna eva cha
17.Sarva-gamana macharah prathamam pari-kalpate
Aachara prabhavo dharmo dharmasya pradhu-rachyutah
(The rishis, pitrus, the devas, the great elements and in fact all things moving and unmoving constituting this universe have originated from Naaraayana. )
19.Yogo gynanam tatha sankhyam vidya shilpadi karma-cha
Vedah shasthrani vigynana etat-sarvam janar-danat
(The Yoga, Jnaana, Saamkya, sciences, arts, works, Vedas, scriptures, spiritual illumination -- all these have originated from Janaardhana.)
20.Eko-vishnu rmaha-dbhootam prutha-gbhoota nyanekasah
Trilon-lokan-vyapya-- bhootatma bhujkte vishva-bhugavyayah
(Whoever desires advancement and happiness should repeat this devotional hymn on Vishnu composed by Vyaasa.)
22.Vishve-shvara majam devam jagatah prabhu mavyam
Bhajanti ye pushka-raksham nate yanti para-bhavam
Na te yanti para-bhavam om nama iti
The birth of Sri Vishnu Sahasra Nama - The 1008 Names of Sri Maha.
As directed by the Lord, he meets Yudishtra. At their meeting, Yudhistira presented Bhishma with six questions.
kimEkam dhaivatam lokE?
Who is the greatest Lord in the world?
2. stuvantam kam prApnuyuh mAnavah subham?
By glorifying whom, can man attain peace and prosperity?
4. kO dharmah sarva dharmANaam bhavatah paramO matah?
What is, in thy opinion, the greatest Dharma?
6.
Bhishma responded by reciting the one thousand names now hailed as the Vishnu Shasranama, and reminded him that either by meditating on these names or by invoking the names through archana (Offering), our minds can be lifted to higher consciousness.
VishNu SahasranAmam consists of 142 slokas. Excepting 13 slokas at the beginning and 22 at the end, the remaining 107 slokas contain the thousandnames of God.
prasanna-vadanam dhyAyet sarva-vighnopaSAntaye.
[ (For the eradication of all obstructions) One should meditate upon vishNu Who is clad in white robes, Who has a moonlike lustre, Who has four arms and Who has a beneficient face. ]
vyAsam vasishta-naptAram Sakteh pautram akalmasham
namo vai Brahma-nidhaye vAsishtAya namo namaH.
[ My repeated salutations to vyAsa who is a form of vishNu and to vishNu who is a form of vyAsa- sage vyAsa, who is a descendent of vasishta and who is a treasure of brahman, (i.
avikArAya SuddhAya nityAya paramAtmane
yudhishThiraH SAntanavam punar-evAbhya-bhAshata.
[ sri vaiSampAyana said: "After hearing all froms of dharma capable of effecting complete purification, yudhishThira, still unsatisfied, questioned the son of Santanu as follows": ]
YudhishThira uvAca-
kimekam daivatam loke kim vApyekam parAyaNam
dhyAyan stuvan namasyamS-ca yajamAnas-tam-eva-ca.
[That worshipper will be free from all sorrows who devoutly worships and meditates on that Undecaying Being, as also praises Him and makes prostrations to Him. ]
anAdi-nidhanam vishNum sarva-loka-maheSvaram
paramam yo mahad brahma paramam yaH parAyanam.
[He is the supreme light of consciousness. He is the supreme controller of everything. He is the supreme All-pervading Being. He is the support of everything. ]
pavitrAnAm pavitam yo mangalAnAm ca mangalam
yasmimS-ca pralayam yAnti punareva yuga-kshye.
[He is the One from whom all beings come into existence at the beginning of a cycle of time, and He is also the One into whom they all dissolve at the end of the cycle.]
tasya loka-pradhAnasya jagan nAthasya bhUpate
vishNor nAma-sahasram me SRNu pApa-bhay'Apaham.
[Hear from me the hymn that is constituted of a 'thousand names' of that vishNu who is the master of the universe, who is the subject of discourse of all scriptures, and who is the eraser of all sins and fear of samsAra.]
yAni nAmAni gauNAni vikhyAtAni maHAtmanaH
RishibhiH pari-gItAni tAni vashyAmi bhUtaye.
[I am giving for the benefit of all those names of His which are far-famed, which are indicative of His attributes, and which find a place in the exalted hymns of the Rshis."]
vishNoHr nAma-sahasrasya veda-vyAso mahA-muniH
aneka-rUpa-daity-Ant- am namAmi purushottamam.
[I bow to vishNu, the victorious, the All-pervading, the Mighty, the Lord of All, the Enemy of daityas (demons) of many forms and the Best of persons. ]
asya sri vishNoH divya sahara-nAma-stotra-mahA-mantra- sya
sri veda-vyAso bhagavAn RishiH, anushtup Chandah,
sri mahA-vishNuH paramAtmA sriman-nArAyaNo devatA
amritAmSUdbhavo bhAnuriti bIjam
devakInandanaH srashteti SaktiH
udbhavah kshobhano deva-iti paramo mantraH
Sankha-bHrt nandakI cakrIti kIlakam
SArnga-dhanvA gadhA-dhara-iti astram
rathAnga-pANiH akshobhyah-iti netram
tri-sAmA sAmagah sAmeti kavacham
Anandam para-brahmeti yoniH
rituh sudarsanah kAleti dig-bandhaH
sri visva-rUpa iti dhyAnam
chitram ramramyate tam tribhuvana-vapusham vishNum Isam namAmi.
[I bow to Lord vishNu who has the three worlds as His body. The Earth is His feet, and the sky His navel. Wind is His breath, and the Sun and the Moon are His eyes. Directions are His ears, and the Heaven is His head. Fire is His face and ocean His abdomen. In Him is situated the universe with diverse kinds of Gods, men, birds, cattle, serpents, gandharvas and daityas (demons)- all sporting in a charming way.]
Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya:
SantAkAram bhujaga-sayanam padmanAbham sureSam
viSvAdhAram gagana-sadRSam megha-varNam SubhAngam
lakshmi-kAntam kamala-nayanam yogibhir dhyAna-gamyam
vishNum vande sarva-lokaika-nAtham.
[I prostrate before vishNu, the one Lord of the worlds, blue as the cloud and clothed in yellow robes. His chest is marked by the mole known as srivatsa. His body is resplendent with kaustubha gem. He is surrounded by holy persons. And he has wide eyes like lotuses.]
Namah samasta bhutanam-adi-bhutaya bhubrite
namAmi vishNum SirasA catur-bhujam.
chayayam parijatasya hemasimhasanopari asinamambusdasyamamayataksamal- ankrtam
candrananam caturbahum srivatsankita vaksasam rukmini satyabhamabhyam sahitam krsnamasraya
[I bow down my head before the four-handed vishNu who sports in His hand the Sankha and the discuss, who is adorned with a crown and ear-pendants, who wears a yellow cloth, whose eyes resemble a lotus and whose chest is beautified by many necklaces and the kaustubha mark.]
VISHNU SAHASRANAMA STOTRAM:
Om vishvam vishnur-vashatkaro bhuta-bhavya-bhavat-prabhuh
Bhu- takrud bhutabhrud bhavo bhutatma bhuta-bhavanah ..1
Vishnur: He who pervades every thing.
Bhuta-bhavya-bhavat-prab- huh: The one who is the master and beyond the past, present and the future.
Bhutabhrud: One who supports or sustains or governs the universe.
Bhutatma: The essence of all beings.
Putatma: One whose nature is purity/who is purity
Muktanam parama gatih: The highest goal of the liberated ones.
Purusha: One who abides in the body or pura.
Kshetrajno: The knower of the field or body.
Yogo: One attainable through Yoga.
Pradhana-purushesvarah: The master of pradhana or Prakruti and Purusha or Jiva.
Shirman: One on whose chest the goddess Shri always dwells.
Purushottamah: The greatest among all Purushas
Sarvah sarvah sivah sthanur-bhutadir-nidhir-avyaya- h
Sambhavo bhavano bharta prabhavah prabhur-isvarah ..4
Sarvah: Destroyer. Sivah: One pure.
Bhutadir: Source of all elements or existing things.
Sambhavo: One born out of His own will as incarnation.
Bharta: One who supports the universe as its substratum.
Prabhur: One who is an adept in all rites.
Svayambhuh: One who exists by Himself, uncaused by any other.
Adityah: The golden-hued person in the sun’s orb.
Mahasvanah: One from whom comes the great sound – the Veda.
Dhata: One who is the support of the universe.
Dhaturuttamah: The ultimate support of every thing.
Aprameyo hrishikesah padma-nabho~mara-prabhuh
Visvak- arma manustvashta sthavishtah sthaviro-dhruvah ..6
Hrishikesah: The master of the senses or He under whose control the senses subsist.
Amara-prabhuh: The master of Amaras or the deathless ones, i.e. the Devas.
Manu: He who thinks.
Sthavishtah: He who excels in everything in bulk or substantiality.
Agrahyah: One who cannot be grasped by the organs or knowledge or conceived by the mind.
Krishno: The existence-Knowledge-Bliss.
Prat- ardanah: Destroyer of all at the time of cosmic dissolution.
Trikakubdhama: He who is the support (dharma) of the three regions above, below and in the middle.
Isanah: He who controls and regulates everything.
Prano: The Supreme Being.
Sreshthah: One deserving the highest praise.
Hiranyagarbho: One who is Atman of even Brahma the creator.
Madhavo: The Consort of Ma or Mahalakshmi or one who is fit to be known through Madhu-Vidya.
Ishvara: The Omnipotent Being.
Dhanvi: One armed with bow. Medhavi: He who has great intelligence capable of grasping all texts.
Kramah: Vishnu is called Kramah, because He is the cause of Kramana or crossing of the ocean of samsara by devotees, or because from Him all Krama or manifestation of the universe, has taken place.
Duradharsah: One whom none (Asuras) can overcome. Krutajnah: One who knows everything about what has been done (Kruta) by Jivas. Also one who is pleased even with those who offer such simple offerings as leaves, flowers, fruits and water.
Atmavan: One established in his own greatness i.e. requiring no other support than Himself.
Suresah sharanam sharma vishvaretah prajabhavah
Ahah samvasaro vyalah pratyayah sarvadarshanah …10
Saranam: One who removes the sorrows of those in distress.
Vishvaretah: The seed of the universe.
Ahah: Luminous one.
Vyalah: Being ungraspable like a serpent, He is called Vyalah.
Sarvadarshanah: One with eyes everywhere. As the Lord has assumed all forms, the eye-sight of all beings is His.
Ajah sarveshvarah siddhah siddhih sarvadir acyutah
Vrushakapir ameyatma sarva-yoga-vinihshrutah …11
Sarveshvarah: The Lord of all Lords or the supreme Lord.
Siddhih: One who is of the nature of Consciousness in all.
Achyutah: One who never lost and will never lose his inherent nature and powers.
Ameyatma: One whose form or nature cannot be measured and determined.
Vasur: One in whom all beings dwell and one who dwells in all beings.
Satyah: One whose nature is Truth.
Sammitah: This name and the previous (samatma) occurring together, can be split in two ways – as samatma sammitah and as samatma asammitah.
Amoghah: One whose worship will never go in vain, but will bear ample fruits.
Vrushakarma: One whose actions are according to vrushas i.e. Dharma.
Rudro: One who makes all beings cry at the time of cosmic dissolution.
Babhrur: One who governs the world.
Shuchi sravah:: One whose names and glories are very holy and purifying to be heard.
Shashvata-sthanur: One who is both eternal and firmly established, unchanging.
Mahatapah: The austerity connected with creation, which is of the nature of knowledge is of great potency.
Sarvagah sarva-vid-bhanur vishvaksheno janardanah
Vedo vedavid avyango vedango vedavit kavih..14
Sarva-vid-bhanur: One who is omniscient and illumines everything.
Janardanah: One who inflicts suffering on evil men.
Vedavid: One who knows the Veda and its meaning.
Vedango: He to whom the Vedas stand as organs.
Kavih: One who sees everything.
Lokadhyakshah suradhyaksho dharmadhyakshah krutakrutah
Chaturatma chaturvyuhas chaturdamstras chatur-bhujah ..15
Suradhyaksho: One who is the overlord of the protecting Divinities of all regions.
Krutakrutah: One who is an effect in the form of the worlds and also a non-effect as their cause.
Chaturvyuhas: One who adopts a fourfold manifestation.
Chaturbhujah: One with four arms.
Bhrajishnur-bhojanam bhokta sahishnur jagad-adhijah
Anagho vijayo jeta vishva-yonih punar-vasuh ..16
Bhojanam: Prakruti or Maya is called Bhojanam or what is enjoyed by the Lord.
Sahishnur: As He suppresses Asuras like Kiranyaksha, He is Sahishnu.
Anagho: The sinless one.
Jeta: One who is naturally victorious over beings, i.e. superior to all beings.
Punar-vasuh: One who dwells again and again in the bodies as the Jivas.
Upendro vamanah pramshur amoghah suchir urjitah
Atindrah samgrahah sargo dhrutatma niyamo yamah ..17
Vamanah: One who, in the form of Vamana (dwarf), went begging to Bali.
Amoghah: One whose acts do not go in vain.
Urjitah: One of infinite strength.
Samgrahah: One who is of the subtle form of the universe to be created.
Niyamo: One who appoints His creatures in particular stations.
Vedyo: One who has to be known by those who aspire for Mokshas.
Sada-yogi: One who is ever experienceble, being ever existent.
Madhavo: One who is the Lord or Master of Ma or knowledge.
Atindriyo: One who is not knowable by the senses.
Mahotsaho: One who is ever busy in the work of creation, sustentation and dissolution.
Mahabuddir: The wisest among the wise
Mahasaktir: One with great resources of strength and skill.
Anirdesyavapuh: One who cannot be indicated to another as: `He is this’, because He cannot be objectively known.
Ameyatma: The Spirit with intelligence that cannot be measured by any one.
Maheshvaso: One equipped with the great bow.
Shrinivasah: One on whose chest the Goddess Shri, eternal in nature, dwells.
Aniruddhah: One who has never been obstructed by any one or anything from manifesting in various forms.
Govindo: Gau means words. Thou pervadest all words, giving them power. Therefore sages call the Govinda.
Marchir: The supreme power and impressiveness seen in persons endowed with such qualities.
Hamsah: One who removes the fear of Samsara from those who practise the sense of identity with Him.
Bhujagottamah: One who is the greatest among those who move on Bhujas or arms, that is, serpents. The great serpents like Ananta and Vasuki are the powers of Vishnu, so he has come to have this name.
Sutapah: One who performs rigorous austerities at Badarikashrama as Nara and Narayana.
Prajapatih: The father of all beings, who are His children.
Amrutyuh sarva-druk simhah sandhata sandhiman sthirah
Ajo durmarshanah shasta vishrutatma surariha ..22
Sarva-druk: One who sees the Karmas of all Jivas through His inherent wisdom.
Sandhata: One who unites the Jivas with the fruits of their actions.
Sthirah: One who is always of the same nature.
Durmarshanah: One whose might the Asuras cannot bear.
Vishrutatma: One who is specially known through signifying terms like Truth, Knowledge etc.
Gurur: One who is the teacher of all forms of knowledge.
Dhama: It means brilliance.
Satya-parakamah: One of unfailing valour.
Animishah: One who is ever awake.
Vachaspatir-udaradhih: Being the master of Vak or word i.e. knowledge, He is called so. As his intellect perceives everything, He is Udaradhih. Both these epithets together constitute one name.
Agranir gramanih shriman nyayo neta samiranah
Sahsra-murdha vishvatma sahasraksha sahasrapat ..24
Gramanih: One who has the command over Bhutagrama or the collectivity of all beings.
Nyayo: The consistency which runs through all ways of knowing and which leads one to the truth of Non-duality.
Samiranah: One who in the form of breath keeps all living beings functioning.
Vishvatma: The soul of the universe.
Sahasrapat: One with a thousand, i.e. innumerable legs.
Avrtano nivrutatma samvrutah sampramardanah
Ahah samvartako vahnir anilo dharani-dharah ..25
Nivrutatma: One whose being is free or untouched by the bondage of Samsara.
Sampramardanah: One who delivers destructive blows on all beings through His Vibhutis (power manifestation like Rudra, Yama etc.).
Vahnir: One who as fire carries the offerings made to the Devas in sacrifices.
Dhanani dharah: One who supports the worlds, Adisesha, elephants of the quarters etc.
Suprasadah prasannatma vishva-dhrug vishva-bhug vibhuh
Sat-karta sat-krutah sadhur jahnur narayano narah ..26
Prasannatma: One whose mind is never contaminated by Rajas or Tamas.Vishva-dhrug: One who holds the universe by his power.
Vibhuh: One who becomes many from Hiranyagarbha downwards.
Sat-krutah: One who is adored even by those who deserve adoration.
Jahnuh: One who dissolves all beings in oneself at the time of dissolution.
Narah: He directs everything, the eternal Paramatma is called Nara”.
Asankhyeyo prameyatma visistah shishtakruch chucih
Siddharthah siddha-sankalpah siddhidah siddhisadhanah ..27
Aprameyatma: One whose nature cannot be grasped by any of the means of knowledge.
Shishtakrch: Shihstam means commandment. So, one who commands everything. Or one who protects shishtas or good men.
Siddha-sankalpah: One whose resolutions are always fulfilled.
Siddhisadhanah: One who brings fulfillment to works that deserve the same.
Vrushahi vrushabho vishnur vrushaparva vrushodarah
Vardhano vardhamanascha viviktah shruti-sagarah ..28
Vrushabho: One who showers on the devotees all that they pray for.
Vrushaparva: One who has given as steps (Parvas), observances of the nature of Dharma, to those who want to attain the supreme state.
Vardhamanascha: One who multiplies in the form of the universe.
Shruti-sagarah: One to whom all the shruti or Vedic words and sentences flow.
Subhujo durdharo vagmi mahendro vasodo vasuh
Naikarupo bruhad-rupah shipivishtah prakashana ..29
Durdharo: One who holds up the universe – a work which none else can do.
Mahendro: The great Lord, that is, the Supreme Being, who is the God of all gods.
Vasuh: One who is himself theVasu.
Bruhad-rupah: One who has adopted mysterious forms like that of a Boar.
Prakashana: One who illumines everthing.
Ojas tejo dyuti-dharah prakashatma pratapanah
Vruddhah spahstaksharo mantras chandramshur bhaskaradyutih ..30
Prakashatma: One whose form is radiant.
Vruddhah: One who is rich in excellences like Dharma, Gyana (knowledge), Vairagya (renunciation) etc.
Mantras: One who manifests as the Mantras of the Rk, Sama, Yajus etc., or one who is known through Mantras.
Bhaaskaradyutih -The Effulgence of the Sun. Sun is the centre of the solar system, an eternal exchequer of energy, ever distributing Life and Strength to all living upon the earth; life would have been impossible but for the Sun. At the same time, the Sun stays where he is and he never interferes with life; from afar he blesses life. The Lord who thus from afar blesses by His mere presence is the true Sun of Life, the Atman, the Self- Sree Maha Vishnu
Amrtamshu dbhavo bhanuh shashabinduh sureshvarah
Aushadham jagatah setuh satya-dharma-prarakramah ..31
Bhanuh: One who shines.
Sureshvarah: One who is the Lord of all Devas and those who do good.
Jagatah setuh: One who is the aid to go across the ocean of Samsara.
Bhuta-bhavya-bhavan-na- thah: One who is the master for all the beings of the past, future and present.
Pavano: One who causes movement.
Kamaha: One who destroys the desire-nature in seekers after liberation.
Kantah: One who is extremely beautiful.
Kamapradah: One who liberally fulfils the desires of devotees.
Yugadikrud: One who is the cause of periods of time like Yuga.
Naikamayo: One who can assume numerous forms of Maya, not one only.
Adrushyo: One who cannot be grasped by any of the five organs of knowledge.
Sahasrajid: One who is victorious over innumerable enemies of the Devas in battle.
Ishto: One who is dear to all because He is of the nature of supreme Bliss.
Shishtestah: One who is dear to shishta or Knowing Ones.
Vrushah: One who is of the form of Dharma.
Krodhakrut karta: One who generates Krodha or anger in evil people.
Mahidharah: Mahi means both earth and worship. So the name means one who supports the earth or receives all forms of worship.
Achyutah prathitah pranah pranado vasavanujah
Apam-nidhir adhishthanam apramattah pratishtitah ..35
Prathitah: One who is famous because of His works like creation of the worlds etc.
Pranado: One who bestows Prana, that is, strength, on Devas and Asuras and also destroys them by withdrawing it.
Apam-nidhir: The word means collectivity of water or the ocean.
Apramattah: One who is always vigilant in awarding the fruits of actions to those who are entiled to them.
Skandah: One who drives everything as air.
Dhuryo: One who bears the weight of the burden of all beings in the form of birth etc.
Vayuvahanah: One who vibrates the seven Vayus or atmospheres beginning with Avaha.
Bruhad-bhanur: The great brilliance.
Purandarah: One who destroys the cities of the enemies of Devas.
Ashokas-taranas-tarah surah saurir janeshvarah
Anukulah shatavartah padmi padma-nibhekshanah ..37
Taranas: One who uplifts beings from the ocean of samsara.
Surah: One of great prowess, that is, who fulfils the four supreme satisfactions of life – Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha.
Janeshvarah: The Lord of all beings.
Shatavartah: One who has had several Avataras or incarnations.
Padma-nibhekshana- h: One with eyes resembling lotus.
Padmanabho aravindakshah padmagarbhah sarirabhrut
Mahardhir ruddho vruddhatma mahaksho garuda-dhvajah ..38
Aravindakshah: One whose eyes resemble Aravinda or the Lotus.
Sarirabhrut: One who supports the bodies of beings, strengthening them in the form of Anna (Food) and Prana.
Ruddho: One who is seen as standing in the form of the world.
Mahaksho: One who has got two or many glorious eyes.
Atulah: One who cannot be compared to anything else.
Bhimah: One of whom everyone is afraid.
Havir-harih: One who takes the portion of offerings (Havis) in Yajnas.
Lakshmivan: One on whose chest the Goddess Lakshmi is always residing.
Viksharo: One who is without Kshara or desruction.
Margah: One who is sought after by persons seeking Moksha or Liberation.
Damodarah: One who has very benevolent mind because of disciplines like self-control.
Mahidharo: One who props up the earth in the form of mountain.
Vegavan: One of tremendous speed.
Udbhavah: One who is the material cause of creation.
Devan: `Divyati’ means sports oneself through creation and other cosmic activities.
Parameshvarah: `Parama’ means the supreme. `Ishvarah’ means one who hold sway over all beings.
Kaaranam: He who is the most important factor in the generation of this universe.
Vikarta: One who makes this unique universe.
Guhah: One who hides one’s own nature with the help of His power of Maya.
Vyavasayo vyavasthanah samsthanah sthanado dhruvah
Parardhih parama-spashtas tushtah pushtah subhekshanah ..42
Vyavasthanah: He in whom the orderly regulation of the universe rests.
Sthanado: One who gives their particular status to persons like Dhruva according to their Karma.
Parardhih: One who possesses lordliness of this most exalted type.
Tushtah: One who is of the nature of supreme.
Subhekshanah: One whose Ikshanam or vision bestows good on all beings that is, gives liberation to those who want Moksha and enjoyments to those who are after it, and also cuts asunder the knots of the heart by eliminating all doubts.
Ramo viramo virato margo neyo nayonayah
Veera shaktimatam shreshtho dharmo dharma-vid uttamah ..43
Viramo: One in whom the Virama or end of all beings takes place.
Margo: That path by knowing which the liberation-seeking ascetics attain to immortality.
Nayo: One who leads, that is, who is the leader in the form of spiritual illumination.
Veera: One who is valorous.
Dharmah: One who supports all beings.
Vaikunthah: The bringing together of the diversified categories is Vikuntha. He who is the agent of it is Vaikunthah.
Pranah: One who lives as Kshetrajana (knower in the body) or one who functions in the form of vital force called Prana.
Pranavah: One who is praised or to whom prostration is made with Om.
Hiranya-garbhah: He who was the cause of the golden-coloured egg out of which Brahma was born.
Vyaptah: One who as the cause pervades all effects.
Adhokshajah: He is Adhokshaja because he undergoes no degeneration from His original nature.
Rituh sudarshanah kalah parameshti parigrahah
Ugrah samvatsaro daksho vishramo vishva-dakshinah ..45
Sudarshanah: One whose Darshana or vision that is knowledge, bestows the most auspicious fruit Moksha.
Parameshti: One who dwells in his supreme greatness in the sky of the heart.
Ugrah: One who is the cause of fear even to beings like Sun.
Vishramah: One who bestows Vishrama or liberation to aspirants who seek relief from the ocean of Samsara with its waves of various tribulations in the from of Hunger, Thirst etc., and difficulties like Avidya, pride, infatuation etc.,
Vistarah: One in whom all the worlds have attained manifestation.
Pramanam: One who is of the nature of pure consciousness.
Arthah: One who is sought (Arthita) by all, as He is of the nature of bliss.
Mahakosho: One who has got as His covering the great Koshas like Annamaya, Pranamaya etc.
Mahadhanah: One who has got the whole universe as the wealth (Dhana) for His enjoyment.
Anirvinnah sthavishtho abhoohr dharma-yupo maha-makhah
Nakshatra-nemir nakshatri kshamah kshamah samihanah ..47
Sthavishtah: One of huge proportions, because He is in the form of cosmic person.
Dharma Yupah: The sacrificial post for Dharmas, that is, one to whom all the forms of Dharma, which are His own form of worship, are attached, just as a sacrificial animal is attached to a Yupa or a sacrificial post.
Nakshatra nemir: The heart of all nakshatras.
Kshamah: One who is clever in everything.
Samihanah: One who exerts well for creation etc.
Yajna ijyo mahejyas cha kratuh satram satamgatih
Sarvadarshi vimuktatma sarvagyo gynanam-uttamam ..48
Ijayah: One who is fit to be worshipped in sacrifices.
Kratuh: A Yajna in which there is a sacrificial post is Kratu.
Satamgatih: One who is the sole support for holy men who are seekers of Moksha.
Vimuktatma: One who is naturally free.
Gynanam uttamam: That consciousness which is superior to all, birthless, unlimited by time and space and the cause of all achievements.
Suvratah sumukhah sukshmah sughoshah sukhadah suhrut
Manoharo jita-krodho virabahur vidaranah ..49
Sumukhah: One with a pleasant face.
Sughoshah: One whose auspicious sound is the Veda. Or one who has got a deep and sonorous sound like the clouds.
Suhrut: One who helps without looking for any return.
Jitakrodho: One who has overcome anger.
Vidaranah: One who destroys those who live contrary to Dharma.
Svapanah svavasho vyapi naikatma naika-karma-krut
Vatsaro vatsalo vatsi ratna-garbho dhaneshvarah ..50
Svavasho: One who is dominated by oneself and not anything else, as He is the cause of the whole cosmic process.
Naikatma: One who manifests in different forms as the subsidiary agencies causing the various cosmic processes.
Vatsaro: One in whom everything dwells.
Vatsi: One who protects those who are dear to Him.
Dhaneshvarah: One who is the Lord of all wealth.
Dharmagub dharmakrud dharmi sad-asatksharam aksharam
Avigyata sahashramsur vidhata kruta-lakshanah ..51
Dharmakrud: Though above. Dharma and Adharma, He performs Dharma in order to keep up the traditions in respect of it.
Sad: The Parabrahman who is of the nature of truth.
Ksharam: All beings subjected to change.
Avigyata: One who is without the attributes of a Jiva or vigyata like sense of agency etc.
Vidhata: One who is the unique support of all agencies like Ananta who bear the whole universe.
Gabhasti-nemih: He who dwells in the middle of Gabhasti or rays as the Sun.
Simho: One who ahs irresistible power like a lion.
Adidevo: He who is the first of all beings.
Devesah: One who is the lord of all Devas, being the most important among them.
Uttaro: One who is Uttirna or liberated from Samsara.
Gopta: One who is the protector of all beings.
Puratanah: One who is not limited by time and who existed before anything else.
Bhokta: One who protects. Or one who is the enjoyer of infinite bliss.
Bhuridakshinah: One to whom numerous Dakshinas or votive offerings are made in Yagyas.
Somapo amrutapah somah purujit purushottamah
Vinayo jayah satyasandho dasharhah satvatampatih ..54
Amrutapah: One who drinks the drink of immortal Bliss which is of one’s own nature.
Purujit: One who gains victory over numerous people.
Vinayo: One who inflicts Vinaya or punishment on evil ones.
Satyasandho: One whose `Sandha’ or resolve becomes always true.
Satvatampatih: `Satvatam’ is the name of a Tantra. So the one who gave it out or commented upon it.
Jivo vinayita-sakshi mukundo amita vikramah
Ambhonidhir anantatma mahodadhishayonatakah ..55
Vinayita-sakshi: One who witnesses the Vinayita or worshipful attitude of all devotees.
Amita vikramah: One whose three strides were limitless.
Anantatma: One who cannot be determined by space, time and causation.
Antakah: One who brings about the end of all beings.
Ajo maharhah svabhavyo jitamitrah pramodanah
Anando nandano nandah satya-dharma trivikramah ..56
Maharhah: One who is fit for worship.
Jitamitrah: One who has conquered the inner enemies like attachment, anger etc. as also external enemies like Ravana, Kumbhakarna etc.
Anando: One whose form is Ananda or Bliss.
Nandah: One endowed with all perfections.
Trivikramah: One whose three strides covered the whole world.
Maharshih kapilacharyah krutagyo medini-patih
Tripadas tridashadhyaksho mahashrungah krutantakrut ..57
Krutagyo: Kruta means the world because it is of the nature of an effect.
Tripadas: One having three strides.
Mahashrungah: One with a great antenna.
Mahavaraho: The great Cosmic Boar.
Sushenah: One who has got about Him an armed guard in the shape of His eternal associates.
Guhyo: One who is to be known by the Guhya or the esoteric knowledge conveyed by the Upanishads. Or one who is hidden in the Guha or heart.
Gahano: One who could be entered into only with great difficulty. One who is the witness of the three states of waking, dreams and sleep as also their absence.
Chakra-gada-dharah: One who has discus and Gada in hand.
Vedhah svango ajitah krishno drudhah sankarshano acyutah
Varuno vaaruno vrukshah pushkaraksho mahamanah ..59
Svango: One who is oneself the participant in accomplishing works.
Krishno: One who is known as Krishna-dvaipayana.
Sankarshano- Acyutah: Sankarshana is one who attracts to oneself all beings at the time of cosmic Dissolution and Acyuta is one who knows no fall from His real nature. They form one word with the first as the qualification – Acyuta who is sankarshana.
Vaaruno: Vasishta or Agastya, the sons of Varuna.
Pushkaraksho: One who shines as the light of consciousness when meditated upon in the lotus of the heart. Or one who has eyes resembling the lotus.
Bhagavan: The origin, dissolution, the bondage and salvation of creatures, knowledge, ignorance – one who knows all these is Bhagavan.
Anandi: One whose nature is Ananda (bliss).
Halayudhah: One who in His incarnation as Balabhadra had Hala or ploughshare as His weapon.
Jyotir-adityah: One who dwells in the brilliance of the sun’s orb.
Gatisattamah: One who is the ultimate resort and support of all, and the greatest of all beings.
Sudhanva-khandaparashur- -daruno dravinapradah
Divah-spruk sarva-drug vyaso vachaspatir ayonijah ..61
Khanda-parashur: The battle-axe that destroys enemies.
Dravinapradah: One who bestows the desired wealth on devotees.
Sarva-drug vyaso: One whose comprehension includes everything in its ambit.
Trisama: One who is praised by the chanters of Sama-gana through the three Samas known as Devavratam.
Sama: Among the Vedas, I am Sama Veda.
Bheshajam: The medicine for the disease of Samsara.
Sanyasakrut: One who instituted the fourth Ashrama of Sanyasa for the attainment of Moksha.
Santo: The peaceful, being without interest in pleasures of the world.
Santih: One in whom there is complete erasing of Avidya or ignorance. That is Brahman.
Shubhangah: One with a handsome form.
Srashta: One who brought forth everything at the start of the creative cycle.
Kuvalesayah: ‘Ku’ means earth. That which surrounds it is water, so ‘Kuvala’ means water. One who lies in water is Kuvalesaya. ‘Kuvala’ also means the underside of serpents. One wholies on a serpent, known as Adisesha, is Kuvalesaya.
Gopatir: The Lord of the earth is Vishnu.
Vrushabhaksho: One whose eyes can rain all desirable objects on devotees. Vrushabha means Dharma and so one whose look is Dharma.
Anivarti: One who never retreats in the battle with Asuras. Or one who, being devoted to Dharma, never abandons it.
Samkshepta: One who at the time of cosmic dissolution contracts the expansive universe into a subtle state.
Chivah: One who purifies everyone by the very utterance of His name.
Shrivasah: One on whose chest Shridevi always dwells.
Shrimatam-varah: One who is supreme over all deities like Brahma who are endowed with power and wealth of the Vedas.
Shridah shrishah shrinivasah shrinidhih shri-vibhavanah
Shridharah shrikarah shreyah shriman loka-trayashrayah ..65
Shrishah: One who is Lord of the Goddess Shri.
Shrinidhih: One who is the seat of all Shri, that is, virtues and powers.
Shridharah: One who bears on His chest Shri who is the mother of all.
Shreyah: ‘Shreyas’ means the attainment of what is un-decaying good and happiness. Such a state is the nature of the Lord.
Loka-trayashrayah: One who is the support of all the three worlds.
Svakshah svangah shatanando nandir jyotir-ganeshvarah
Vijitatma vidheyatma satkirtischinna-samsayah ..66
Svangah: One whose limbs are beautiful.
Nandir: One who is of the nature of supreme Bliss.
Vijitatma: One who has conquered the Atma that is the mind.
Satkriti: One whose fame is of the nature of truth.
Udirnah: He who is superior to all beings.
Anisah: One who cannot have anyone to lord over him.
Bhushayo: One who, while seeking the means to cross over to Lanka, had to sleep on the ground of the sea-beach.
Bhutir: One who is the abode or the essence of everthing, or is the source of all glorious manifestations.
Shokanashanah: One who effaces the sorrows of devotees even by mere remembrance.
Archishman architah kumbho vishuddhatma vishodhanah
Aniruddho pratirathah pradyumno amita-vikramah ..68
Architah: One who is worshipped by Brahma and other Devas who are themselves the objects of worship in all the worlds.
Vishuddhatma: Being above the three Gunas, Satva, Rajas and Tamas, the Lord is pure spirit and is also free from all impurities.
Aniruddho: The last one of the four Vyuhas – Vasudeva, Samkarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. Or one who, cannot be obstructed by enemies.
Pradyumno: One whose Dyumna or wealth is of a superior and sacred order. Or one of the four Vyuhas.
Kalanemi-niha: One who destroyed the Asura named Kalanemi.
Saurih: One who was born in the clan of Sura as Krishna.
Trilokatma: One who in his capacity as the inner pervade is the soul for the three worlds.
Keshavah: By Kesha is meant the rays of light spreading within the orbit of the sun.
Harih: One who destroys Samsara, that is, entanglement in the cycle of birth and death along with ignorance, its cause.
Kamadevah kamapalah kami kantah krutagamah
Anirdeshya-vapur vishnur viro ananto dhananjayah ..70
Kamapalah: One who protects or assures the desired ends of people endowed with desires.
Kantah: One whose form is endowed with great beauty. Or one who effects the ‘Anta’ or dissolution of ‘Ka’ or Brahma at the end of a Dviparardha. (the period of Brahma’s lifetime extending over a hundred divine years).
Anirdeshya-vapur: He is called so, because, being above the Gunas, His form cannot be determined.
Viro: One who has the power of Gati or movement.
Dhananjayah: Arjuna is called so because by his conquest of the kingdoms in the four quarters he acquired great wealth. Arjuna is a Vibhuti, a glorious manifestation of the Lord.
Brahmanyo brahmakrud-brahma brahma brahma-vivardhanah
Brahmavid brahmano brahmi brahmgno brahmana-priyah ..71
Brahmakrud: One who performs Brahma or Tapas (austerity).
Brahma: Being big expanding, the Lord who is known from indications like Satya (Truth), is called Brahma. Or Brahma is Truth, Knowledge and Infinity!
Brahmavid : One who knows the Vedas and their real meaning.
Brahmi: One in whom is established such entities as Tapas, Veda, mind, Prana etc. which are parts of Brahma and which are also called Brahma.
Brahmanapriyah: One to whom holy men are devoted.
Mahakramo mahakarma mahateja mahoragah
Mahakratur mahayajva mahayagyo mahahavih ..72
Mahakarma: One who is performing great works like the creation of the world.
Mahoragah: He is also the great serpent.
Mahayajva: One who is great and performs sacrifices for the good of the world.
Mahahavih: The whole universe conceived as Brahman and offered as sacrificial offering (Havis) into the fire of the Self, which is Brahman.
Stavyah Stavapriyah stotram stutih stota ranapriyah
Purnah purayita punyah punyakirtir anamayah ..73
Stavapriyah: One who is pleased with hymns.
Stutih: A praise.
Ranapriyah: One who is fond of fight for the protection of the world, and for the prupose always sports in His hands the five weapons, the discus Sudarshana, the mace Kaumodaki, the bow Saranga, and the sword Nandaka besides the conch Panchajanya.
Purayita: One who is not only self-fulfilled but gives all fulfillments to others.
Punyakirtir: One of holy fame. His excellences are capable of conferring great merit on others.
Manojavas: One who, being all pervading, is said to be endowed with speed likes that of the mind.
Vasureta: He whose Retas (Semen) is gold (Vasu).
Vasuprado: One who bestows on devotees the highest of all wealth, namely Moksha.
Vasur: He in whom all creation dwells.
Havih: Havis or sacrificial offerings
Sadgatih sat-krutih satta sad-bhutih sat-parayanah
Suraseno yadushreshthah sannivasah suyamunah ..75
Sat-krutih: One whose achievements are for the protection of the world.
Sad-bhutih: The Paramatman who is pure existence and conscousness, who is unsublatable and who manifests Himself in many ways.
Suraseno: One having an army of heroic wariours like Hanuman.
Sannivasah: One who is the resort of holy knowing ones.
Bhutavaso: He in whom all the beings dwell.
Sarvasu-nilayo: He in whose form as the Jiva all the vital energy or Prana of all living beings dissolves.
Darpaha: One who puts down the pride of persons who walk along the unrighteous path.
Drupto: One who is ever satisfied by the enjoyment of His own inherent bliss.
Aparajita: One who is never conquered by internal enemies like attachment and by external enemies like Asuras.
Vishvamurtir mahamurtir diptamurtir amurtiman
Anekamurtir avyaktah shatamurtih shatananah ..77
Mahamurtir: One with an enormous form stretched on a bedstead constituted of the serpent Adisesha.
Amurtiman: He who is without a body born of Karma.
Avyaktah: One who cannot be clearly described as ‘This’ even though He has many forms.
Shatananah: He is called one with a hundred faces to indicate that He has several forms.
Eko naikah savah kah kim yat tat padam-anuttamam
Lokabandhur lokanatho madhavo bhakta-vastalah ..78
Naikah: One who has numerous bodies born of Maya.
Kah: The syllable ‘Ka’ indicatesjoy or happiness. So it means one who is hymned as constituted of joy.
Yat: One who is by nature existent. The word ‘Yat’ indicates a self-subsisting entity.
Padam-anuttamam: Braman is ‘Pada’ or Status, because He is the goal of all Moksha-seekers. It is Anuttama, because It is that beyond which there is nothing else to be attained.
Lokanathah: One to whom all the worlds pray.
Bhaktavatsalah: One who has got love for devotees.
Suvarna varno hemango varangas chandanangadi
Viraha vishamah sunyo ghrutasir achalaschalah ..79
Hemango: One whose form is like that of gold.
Chandanangadi: One who is adorned with armlets that generate joy.
Vishamah: One to whom there is no euql because nothing is comparable to Him by any characteristic.
Ghrutasir: One whose blessings are unfailing.
Chalah: One who moves in the form of air.
Amani manado manyo lokasvami triloka-dhruk
Sumedha medhajo dhanyah satyamedha dharadharah ..80
Manado: One who by His power of Maya induces the sense of self in non-self. Or one who has regard and beneficence towards devotees. Or one who destroys in the knowing ones the sense of identification with the non-self.
Lokasvami: One who is the Lord of all the fourteen spheres.
Sumedha: One with great and beneficent intelligence.
Dhanyah: One who has attained all His ends and therefore is self-satisfied.
Dharadharah: One who supports the worlds by His fractiosn like Adisesha.
Tejovrusho dyuti-dharah sarva-shastra-bhrutam-varah
Pra- grahonigraho vyagro naikashrungo gadagrajah ..81
Dyuti-dharah: One whose form is always brilliant.
Pragraho: One who accepts the offerings of devotees with great delight.
Vyagro: One who has no Agra or end. Or one who is very attentive (Vyagra) in granting the prayers of devotees.
Gadagrajah: One who is revealed first by Mantra (Nigada). Or one who is the elder rbother of Gada.
Chaturmurtis chaturbahus chaturvyuhas chaturgatih
Chaturatma chaturbhavas chaturvedavid ekapat ..82
Chaturbahus: One with four arms, as Vasudeva is always described.
Chatur-gatih: One who is sought as the end by the four Orders of life and four Varnas ordained by the scriptures.
Chaturbhavas: One from whom has originated the four human values – Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha.
Ekapat: One with a single Pada, part or leg. Or one with a single foot or manifestation.
Samavarto anivrutatma durjayo duratikramah
Durlabho durgamo durgo duravaso durariha ..83
Anivrutatma: One who is not Nivruta (separated from) anything or anywhere, because He is all-pervading.
Duratikramah: One out of fear of whom, even heavenly objects like sun do not dare to oppose His command.
Durgamo: One whom it is difficult to attain.
Duravaso: He whom the Yogis with very great difficulty bring to reside in their hearts in Samadhi.
Shubhango: One whose form is very auspicious to meditate upon.
Sutantus: As this universe of infinite extension belongs to Him, the Lord is called Sutantu.
Indrakarma: One whose actions are like that of Indra, that is, are of a highly commendable nature.
Krutakarma: One who has fulfilled everything and has nothing more to accomplish.
Udbhavah: One who assumes great and noble embodiments out of His own will.
Sundo: One who is noted for extreme tenderness (Undanam).
Sulochanah: One who has brilliant eyes, that is, knowledge of everything.
Vajasanah: One who gives Vajam (food) to those who entreat Him.
Jayantah: One who conquers enemies easily.
Suvarna-bindur: One whose ‘Bindus’ that is, limbs, are euaql to gold in brilliance.
Sarva-vagishvareshv- arah: One who is the master of all masters of learning, including Brahma.
Maha-garto: One whose Maya is difficult to cross like a ddp pit.
Mahanidhih: One in whom all the great elements have their support. He is Mahan or a great one and ‘Nidhi’, the most precious one.
Kumudah kundarah kundah parjanyah pavano anilah
Amrutasho amrutavapuh sarvagyah sarvato-mukha ..87
Kundarah: One who offers blessings as pure as Kunda or jasmine.
Parjanyah: The word means cloud. One who resembles the cloud in extinguishing the three Tapas (heats, that is, miseries) arising from psychological, material and spiritual causes. Or one who rains all desires like a cloud.
Anilah: ‘Ilanam’ means inducement. One who is without any inducement is Anila. Ilana also means sleep. So one who sleeps not or is ever awake is Anila.
Amrutavapuh: One whose form is deathless, that is, undecaying.
Sarvatomukhah: One who has faces everywhere.
Sulabhah suvratah siddhah shatru-jit shatru-tapanah
Nyagrodho adumbaro-svatthas chanurandhra-nishudhanah ..88
Suvratah: ‘Vratati’ means enjoys. So, one who enjoys pure offerings. It can also mean one who is a non-enjoyer, that is, a mere witness.
Shatru-jit: Conqueror of all forces of evil.
Nyagrodho: That which remains above all and grows downward. That is, He is the source of everything that is manifest.
Asvatthas: That which does not last even for the next day.
Sahasrarchi: One with innumerable Archis or rays.
Saptaidhah: The Lord who is of the nature of fire has seven Edhas or forms of brilliance.
Amurtir: One who is without sins or without sorrow.
Bhayakrud: One who generates fear in those who go along the evil path. Or one who cuts at the root of all fear.
Anur: One who is extremely subtle.
Krusah: One who is non-material.
Gunabrun: The support of the Gunas. He is so called because in the creative cycle of creation, sustentation, and dissolution, He is the support of the Gunas – Satva, Rajas and Tamas – with which these functions are performed.
Mahan: The great.
Svadhrutah: One supported by oneself.
Pragvamsho: The family lines of others are preceded by the lines of still others, but the Lord’s descendent, namely, the world system, is not preceded by anything else.
Bhara-bhrut: One who bears the weight of the earth assuming the form of Ananta.
Yogi: Yoga here means knowledge. So He who is attained by that is Yogi. Or Yoga means Samadhi. He who is ever established in His own Self, that is, the Paramatma. He is therefore Yogi.
Sarva-kamadah: One who bestows all desired fruits.
Shramanah: One who brings tribulations to those who live without using their discriminative power.
Suparnah: The lord who has manifested Himself as the tree of Samsara has excellent leaves (Parna) in the form of Vedic passages (Chandas).
Dhanurdharo: He who as Rama wielded the great bow.
Dando: He who is discipline among the disciplinarians.
Damah: He who is in the form of self-descipline in men as a result of enforcement.
Sarvasaho: One who is expert in all Karmas (works).
Aniyamo: One on whom there is no enforcement of any law, or above whom there can be no overlord to enforce anything, as He is the controller of everything.
Satvavan: One who has got the strengthening qualities like heroism, prowess etc.
Satyah: One who is truly established in good people.
Abhiprayah: The One who is sought after by those who seek the ultimate values of life (Purushartha).
Arhah: One who deserves to be worshipped with all the ingredients and rites of worship like offerings, praise, prostration etc.
Pritivardhanah: One who enhances the joys of devotees.
Vihayasagatir jyotih suruchir huta-bhug vibhuh
Ravir virochanah suryah savita ravilochanah ..94
Jyotih: One who is the light of self-luminous consciousness that reveals oneself as well as other things.
Huta-bhug: One who eats, that is, receives, whatever is offered to whatever deities (Devas) in all sacrifices.
Ravir: One who absorbs all Rasas (fluids) in the form of the Sun.
Suryah: One who generates Shri or brilliance in Surya. Or Agni (Fire) is what is called Surya.
Ravi-lochanah: One having the sun as the eye.
Ananto huta-bhug bhokta sukhado naikajo-grajah
Anirvinnah sadamarshi lokadhishthana-madbhutah ..95
Hutabhuk: One who consumes what is offered in firesacrifices.
Sukhado: One who bestows liberation (Miksha) on devotees.
Agrajah: One who was born before everything else, that is, Hiranya-garbha.
Sadamarshi: One who is always patient towards good men.
Adbhutah: The wonderful being.
Sanat sanatana-tamah kapilah kapir avyayah
Svastidah svastikrut svasti svastibhuk svasti-dakshinah ..96
Sanatana-tamah: Being the cause of all, He is more ancient than Brahma and other beings, who are generally considered eternal.
Kapir: ‘Ka’ means water. One who drinks or absorbs all water by his Kapi, that is, the sun.
Svastikrut: One who works bestowing what is good.
Svastibhuk: One who enjoys the Svasti mentioned above or who preserves the Svasti of devotees.
Araudrah: Action, attachment and anger these three are Raudra. The Lord is one whose desires are all accomplished, so He has no attachment or aversion. So He is free from theRaudras mentioned above.
Chakri: One who sports in his hand the discus named Sudarshana, which is the category known as Manas, for the protection of all the worlds.
Urjita-shasanah: One whose dictates in the form of shrutis and smrutis are of an extremely sublime nature.
Sabdasahah: One who is the purport of all Vedas.
Sarvari-karah: For those in bondage, the Atman is like Sarvari (night) and for an enlightened one the state of samsara is like night (Sarvari). So the Lord is called the one who generates Sarvari or night for both the enlightened and the bound ones.
Akrurah peshalo daksho dakshinah kshiminam varah
Vidvattamo vitabhayah punya-shravana-kirtanah ..98
Peshalo: One who is handsome in regard to His actions, mind, word and body.
Dakshinah: This word is also means the same as the above Nama.
Vidvattamo: He who has got the unsurpassable and all-inclusive knowledge of everything.
Punya-shravana-kirt- anah: One to hear about whom and to sing of whom is meritorious.
Uttarano dushkrutiha punyo duh-svapna-nasanah
Viraha rakshanah santo jivanah paryavasthitah ..99
Dushkrutiha: One who effaces the evil effects of evil actions. Or one who destroys those who perform evil.
Duh-svapna-nasanah: When adored and meditated upon, He saves one from dreams foreboding danger. Hence He is called so.
Rakshanah: One who, assuming the Satvaguna, protects all the three worlds.
Jivanah: One who supports the lives of all beings as Prana.
Ananta-rupo: One who has innumerable forms, as He dwells in this all-comprehending universe.
Jitamanyur: One who has overcome anger.
Chaturashro: One who is just, because He bestows on Jivas the fruits of their Karma.
Vidisho: One who distributes various furits of actions to persons differing in their forms according to competency.
Dishah: One who in the form of the Vedas bestows the fruits of their ritualistic actions on different beings.
Anadi bhurbhuvo lakshmih suviro ruchirangadah
Janano janajanmadir bhimo bhima-parakramah ..101
Bhurbhuvo: ‘Bhu’ means support. One who is the support (Bhu) of even the earth, which is known to support all things.
Suviro: One who has many brilliant ways of manifestation.
Janano: One who gives brith to living beings.
Bhimo: One who is the cause of fear.
Adharanilayo: One who is the support of even all the basic supporting factors like the five elements – Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.
Pushpahasah: One whose manifestation as the universe resembles the Hasa or blooming of buds into flowers.
Urdhvagah: One who is above everything.
Pranadah: One who givesback life to dead ones as in the case of Parikshit.
Panah: It comes from the root ‘Prana’ meaning transaction. So one who bestows the fruits of Karma on all according to their Karma.
Prmanam prananilayah pranabhrut pranajivanah
Tatvam tatvavidekatma janma-mrutyu-jaratigah ..103
Prananilayah: The home or dissolving ground of the Pranas.
Pranajivanah: He who keeps alive human beings with Vayus (airs) known as Prana, Apana etc., Tattvam: “the Reality” –that which is eternal, the essence. “That which one gains in subjective realization is the self,” Sree Narayana
Ekatma: One who is the sole being and the spirit (Atma) in all.
Bhur-bhuvah-svastarus: The three Vyahrutis Bhuh, Bhuvah, Svah are said to be the essence of the Veda.
Prapitamahah: One who is the father of Brahma and therefore the grandfather of all.
Yagya-patir: One who is the protector and the master of the Yagyas.
Yagyango: All the parts of His body as the incarnate Cosmic Boar are identified with the parts of a yagya.
Yagyabhrud: He is so called, because He is the protector and supporter of all yagyas.
Yagyi: One who is the Principal.
Yagyasadhanah: One to whom the Yagya is the approach.
Yagyaguhyam: The gyana yagya or the sacrifice of knowledge, which is the esoteric (Guhyam) of all the yagyams.
Annada eva cha: One who is the eater of the whole world as food. The word Eva is added to show that He is also Anna, the food eaten.
Atmayonih svayamjato vaikhanah samagayanah
Devaki-nandanah srashtha kshitishah papanashanah ..106
Svayam-jato: He is also the instrumental cause.
Samagayanah: One who recites the Sama chants.
Srashtha: The creator of all the worlds.
Papanashanah: He who destroys the sins of those who adore Him, meditate upon Him, remember and sing hymns of praise on Him.
Shankhabrun -nandaki chakri sharangadhnva gadadharah
Rathanga panirakshobhyah sarva-praharanayudhah ..107
Nandaki: One who has in His hand the sword known as Nandaka, which stands for Vidya (spiritual illumination).
Sharnga-dhanvaa :“One who aims his unerring bow called Saarnga.” This bow of Narayana is glorified in our texts as representing the Ego, as the ‘apex’ of all the sense organs, Ahankaara-Tattva. In this concluding Stanza, the instruments of Blessing in sree Narayana’s hands are remembered with reverence and devotion.
Rathangapani: One in whose hand is a wheel (Chakra).
Sarva-praharana-yudha- h: There is no rule that the Lord has got only the above-mentioned weapons. All things, which can be used for contacting or striking, are His weapons.
1. (In the above verses have been given a complete enumeration of the thousand divine names of the the Great Being Keshava, who is the fit object for all praise and prayer.)
(Nothing evil or inauspicious will befall a man here or hereafter who daily hears or repeats these names)
Vedan-tago bramhana-syat kshatriyo vijayee bavet
Vaisyo dhana-samru-ddhasyat shhoodra sukha mavap-nuyat
Dharmarthee prapnu-yatdharmam artharthee chartha mapnuyat
Kamana-vapnuyat-kamee prajarthee chapnu-yat-prajam
5.Bhaktimaan Yah Sadotthyaaya Suchis-tadgata Maanasahah
Sahasram Vaasudevasya Naamnaam Etat Prakeertayet
(Whichever devoted man, getting up early in the morning and purifying himself, repeats this hymn devoted to Vaasudeva, with a mind that is concentrated on Him.. )
6. Yashah Prapnoti Vipulam Jnaati Praadhaanyam Eva Cha
Achalaam Sriyam Aapnoti Sreyah Praapnotyanuttamam
(That man attains to great fame, leadership among his peers, wealth that is secure and the supreme good unsupassed by anything....)
7. Na Bhayam Kvachid Aapnoti Veeryam Tejasya Vindati
Bhavatyarogo Dyutimaan Bala-roopa-gunaanvitahah
(He will be free from all fears and be endowed with great courage and energy and he will be free from diseases. Beauty of form, strength of body and mind, and virtuous character will be natural to him.)
8. Rogarto muchyate rogat baddho muchyeta bandhanat Bhaya nmuchyeta bheetastu muchye tapanna apadha
9.Durganya-titara tyashu purushah purusho-ttamam Stuva nnama-saha-srena nityam bhakti saman-vitah
10. Vaasudeva-ashrayo Martyo Vaasudeva Paraayanahah
Sarva Paapa Vishudhaatmaa Yaati Brahma Sanaatanam
(Free from all sins, a man devoted to Vaasudeva and completely dependent on Him attains to the eternal status of Brahman.)
11.Na vasu-deva bhakta-nam ashubham vidyate kvachit
Janma mrithyu jara vyadhi bhayam naivapa jayate
(No inauspicious things can happen to a devotee of Vasudeva. The person will conquer the cycle of birth, death, fear and disease.)
12.Emam stava madhee-yanah shraddha-bhakti sama-nvitah
Yujye tatam sukha-kshantih shree-dhrati smruti keertibhih
(One who reads this hymn every day with devotion and attention attains peace of mind, patience, prosperity, mental stability, memory and reputation.)
13.Na krodho na matsaryam na lobho na shubha-matih
Bhavanti kruta punyanam bhakta-nam puru-shottame
(Such a person is not caught by anger, binding, jealousy, or any inauspicious event. Such a bhakta becomes a "punyatma" and merges with the Purshottama (i.e. supreme being))
14.Dhyou sachan-drarka nakshatra kham disho bhoorma-hodadhih
Vasu-devasya veeryena vidhrutani mahat-manah
15.Sa-sura-sura gandharvam sa-yaksho-raga raksha-sam
Jaga-dvashe varta-tedam krishnasya sachara-charam
16.Indri-yani mano-buddhih satvam tejo-balam dhrutih
Vasu-devatma kanyahuh kshetram-kshetragyna eva cha
17.Sarva-gamana macharah prathamam pari-kalpate
Aachara prabhavo dharmo dharmasya pradhu-rachyutah
(The rishis, pitrus, the devas, the great elements and in fact all things moving and unmoving constituting this universe have originated from Naaraayana. )
19.Yogo gynanam tatha sankhyam vidya shilpadi karma-cha
Vedah shasthrani vigynana etat-sarvam janar-danat
(The Yoga, Jnaana, Saamkya, sciences, arts, works, Vedas, scriptures, spiritual illumination -- all these have originated from Janaardhana.)
20.Eko-vishnu rmaha-dbhootam prutha-gbhoota nyanekasah
Trilon-lokan-vyapya-- bhootatma bhujkte vishva-bhugavyayah
(Whoever desires advancement and happiness should repeat this devotional hymn on Vishnu composed by Vyaasa.)
22.Vishve-shvara majam devam jagatah prabhu mavyam
Bhajanti ye pushka-raksham nate yanti para-bhavam
Na te yanti para-bhavam om nama iti
As directed by the Lord, he meets Yudishtra. At their meeting, Yudhistira presented Bhishma with six questions.
kimEkam dhaivatam lokE?
Who is the greatest Lord in the world?
2. stuvantam kam prApnuyuh mAnavah subham?
By glorifying whom, can man attain peace and prosperity?
4. kO dharmah sarva dharmANaam bhavatah paramO matah?
What is, in thy opinion, the greatest Dharma?
6.
Bhishma responded by reciting the one thousand names now hailed as the Vishnu Shasranama, and reminded him that either by meditating on these names or by invoking the names through archana (Offering), our minds can be lifted to higher consciousness.
VishNu SahasranAmam consists of 142 slokas. Excepting 13 slokas at the beginning and 22 at the end, the remaining 107 slokas contain the thousandnames of God.
prasanna-vadanam dhyAyet sarva-vighnopaSAntaye.
[ (For the eradication of all obstructions) One should meditate upon vishNu Who is clad in white robes, Who has a moonlike lustre, Who has four arms and Who has a beneficient face. ]
vyAsam vasishta-naptAram Sakteh pautram akalmasham
namo vai Brahma-nidhaye vAsishtAya namo namaH.
[ My repeated salutations to vyAsa who is a form of vishNu and to vishNu who is a form of vyAsa- sage vyAsa, who is a descendent of vasishta and who is a treasure of brahman, (i.
avikArAya SuddhAya nityAya paramAtmane
yudhishThiraH SAntanavam punar-evAbhya-bhAshata.
[ sri vaiSampAyana said: "After hearing all froms of dharma capable of effecting complete purification, yudhishThira, still unsatisfied, questioned the son of Santanu as follows": ]
YudhishThira uvAca-
kimekam daivatam loke kim vApyekam parAyaNam
dhyAyan stuvan namasyamS-ca yajamAnas-tam-eva-ca.
[That worshipper will be free from all sorrows who devoutly worships and meditates on that Undecaying Being, as also praises Him and makes prostrations to Him. ]
anAdi-nidhanam vishNum sarva-loka-maheSvaram
paramam yo mahad brahma paramam yaH parAyanam.
[He is the supreme light of consciousness. He is the supreme controller of everything. He is the supreme All-pervading Being. He is the support of everything. ]
pavitrAnAm pavitam yo mangalAnAm ca mangalam
yasmimS-ca pralayam yAnti punareva yuga-kshye.
[He is the One from whom all beings come into existence at the beginning of a cycle of time, and He is also the One into whom they all dissolve at the end of the cycle.]
tasya loka-pradhAnasya jagan nAthasya bhUpate
vishNor nAma-sahasram me SRNu pApa-bhay'Apaham.
[Hear from me the hymn that is constituted of a 'thousand names' of that vishNu who is the master of the universe, who is the subject of discourse of all scriptures, and who is the eraser of all sins and fear of samsAra.]
yAni nAmAni gauNAni vikhyAtAni maHAtmanaH
RishibhiH pari-gItAni tAni vashyAmi bhUtaye.
[I am giving for the benefit of all those names of His which are far-famed, which are indicative of His attributes, and which find a place in the exalted hymns of the Rshis."]
vishNoHr nAma-sahasrasya veda-vyAso mahA-muniH
aneka-rUpa-daity-Ant- am namAmi purushottamam.
[I bow to vishNu, the victorious, the All-pervading, the Mighty, the Lord of All, the Enemy of daityas (demons) of many forms and the Best of persons. ]
asya sri vishNoH divya sahara-nAma-stotra-mahA-mantra- sya
sri veda-vyAso bhagavAn RishiH, anushtup Chandah,
sri mahA-vishNuH paramAtmA sriman-nArAyaNo devatA
amritAmSUdbhavo bhAnuriti bIjam
devakInandanaH srashteti SaktiH
udbhavah kshobhano deva-iti paramo mantraH
Sankha-bHrt nandakI cakrIti kIlakam
SArnga-dhanvA gadhA-dhara-iti astram
rathAnga-pANiH akshobhyah-iti netram
tri-sAmA sAmagah sAmeti kavacham
Anandam para-brahmeti yoniH
rituh sudarsanah kAleti dig-bandhaH
sri visva-rUpa iti dhyAnam
chitram ramramyate tam tribhuvana-vapusham vishNum Isam namAmi.
[I bow to Lord vishNu who has the three worlds as His body. The Earth is His feet, and the sky His navel. Wind is His breath, and the Sun and the Moon are His eyes. Directions are His ears, and the Heaven is His head. Fire is His face and ocean His abdomen. In Him is situated the universe with diverse kinds of Gods, men, birds, cattle, serpents, gandharvas and daityas (demons)- all sporting in a charming way.]
Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya:
SantAkAram bhujaga-sayanam padmanAbham sureSam
viSvAdhAram gagana-sadRSam megha-varNam SubhAngam
lakshmi-kAntam kamala-nayanam yogibhir dhyAna-gamyam
vishNum vande sarva-lokaika-nAtham.
[I prostrate before vishNu, the one Lord of the worlds, blue as the cloud and clothed in yellow robes. His chest is marked by the mole known as srivatsa. His body is resplendent with kaustubha gem. He is surrounded by holy persons. And he has wide eyes like lotuses.]
Namah samasta bhutanam-adi-bhutaya bhubrite
namAmi vishNum SirasA catur-bhujam.
chayayam parijatasya hemasimhasanopari asinamambusdasyamamayataksamal- ankrtam
candrananam caturbahum srivatsankita vaksasam rukmini satyabhamabhyam sahitam krsnamasraya
[I bow down my head before the four-handed vishNu who sports in His hand the Sankha and the discuss, who is adorned with a crown and ear-pendants, who wears a yellow cloth, whose eyes resemble a lotus and whose chest is beautified by many necklaces and the kaustubha mark.]
VISHNU SAHASRANAMA STOTRAM:
Om vishvam vishnur-vashatkaro bhuta-bhavya-bhavat-prabhuh
Bhu- takrud bhutabhrud bhavo bhutatma bhuta-bhavanah ..1
Vishnur: He who pervades every thing.
Bhuta-bhavya-bhavat-prab- huh: The one who is the master and beyond the past, present and the future.
Bhutabhrud: One who supports or sustains or governs the universe.
Bhutatma: The essence of all beings.
Putatma: One whose nature is purity/who is purity
Muktanam parama gatih: The highest goal of the liberated ones.
Purusha: One who abides in the body or pura.
Kshetrajno: The knower of the field or body.
Yogo: One attainable through Yoga.
Pradhana-purushesvarah: The master of pradhana or Prakruti and Purusha or Jiva.
Shirman: One on whose chest the goddess Shri always dwells.
Purushottamah: The greatest among all Purushas
Sarvah sarvah sivah sthanur-bhutadir-nidhir-avyaya- h
Sambhavo bhavano bharta prabhavah prabhur-isvarah ..4
Sarvah: Destroyer. Sivah: One pure.
Bhutadir: Source of all elements or existing things.
Sambhavo: One born out of His own will as incarnation.
Bharta: One who supports the universe as its substratum.
Prabhur: One who is an adept in all rites.
Svayambhuh: One who exists by Himself, uncaused by any other.
Adityah: The golden-hued person in the sun’s orb.
Mahasvanah: One from whom comes the great sound – the Veda.
Dhata: One who is the support of the universe.
Dhaturuttamah: The ultimate support of every thing.
Aprameyo hrishikesah padma-nabho~mara-prabhuh
Visvak- arma manustvashta sthavishtah sthaviro-dhruvah ..6
Hrishikesah: The master of the senses or He under whose control the senses subsist.
Amara-prabhuh: The master of Amaras or the deathless ones, i.e. the Devas.
Manu: He who thinks.
Sthavishtah: He who excels in everything in bulk or substantiality.
Agrahyah: One who cannot be grasped by the organs or knowledge or conceived by the mind.
Krishno: The existence-Knowledge-Bliss.
Prat- ardanah: Destroyer of all at the time of cosmic dissolution.
Trikakubdhama: He who is the support (dharma) of the three regions above, below and in the middle.
Isanah: He who controls and regulates everything.
Prano: The Supreme Being.
Sreshthah: One deserving the highest praise.
Hiranyagarbho: One who is Atman of even Brahma the creator.
Madhavo: The Consort of Ma or Mahalakshmi or one who is fit to be known through Madhu-Vidya.
Ishvara: The Omnipotent Being.
Dhanvi: One armed with bow. Medhavi: He who has great intelligence capable of grasping all texts.
Kramah: Vishnu is called Kramah, because He is the cause of Kramana or crossing of the ocean of samsara by devotees, or because from Him all Krama or manifestation of the universe, has taken place.
Duradharsah: One whom none (Asuras) can overcome. Krutajnah: One who knows everything about what has been done (Kruta) by Jivas. Also one who is pleased even with those who offer such simple offerings as leaves, flowers, fruits and water.
Atmavan: One established in his own greatness i.e. requiring no other support than Himself.
Suresah sharanam sharma vishvaretah prajabhavah
Ahah samvasaro vyalah pratyayah sarvadarshanah …10
Saranam: One who removes the sorrows of those in distress.
Vishvaretah: The seed of the universe.
Ahah: Luminous one.
Vyalah: Being ungraspable like a serpent, He is called Vyalah.
Sarvadarshanah: One with eyes everywhere. As the Lord has assumed all forms, the eye-sight of all beings is His.
Ajah sarveshvarah siddhah siddhih sarvadir acyutah
Vrushakapir ameyatma sarva-yoga-vinihshrutah …11
Sarveshvarah: The Lord of all Lords or the supreme Lord.
Siddhih: One who is of the nature of Consciousness in all.
Achyutah: One who never lost and will never lose his inherent nature and powers.
Ameyatma: One whose form or nature cannot be measured and determined.
Vasur: One in whom all beings dwell and one who dwells in all beings.
Satyah: One whose nature is Truth.
Sammitah: This name and the previous (samatma) occurring together, can be split in two ways – as samatma sammitah and as samatma asammitah.
Amoghah: One whose worship will never go in vain, but will bear ample fruits.
Vrushakarma: One whose actions are according to vrushas i.e. Dharma.
Rudro: One who makes all beings cry at the time of cosmic dissolution.
Babhrur: One who governs the world.
Shuchi sravah:: One whose names and glories are very holy and purifying to be heard.
Shashvata-sthanur: One who is both eternal and firmly established, unchanging.
Mahatapah: The austerity connected with creation, which is of the nature of knowledge is of great potency.
Sarvagah sarva-vid-bhanur vishvaksheno janardanah
Vedo vedavid avyango vedango vedavit kavih..14
Sarva-vid-bhanur: One who is omniscient and illumines everything.
Janardanah: One who inflicts suffering on evil men.
Vedavid: One who knows the Veda and its meaning.
Vedango: He to whom the Vedas stand as organs.
Kavih: One who sees everything.
Lokadhyakshah suradhyaksho dharmadhyakshah krutakrutah
Chaturatma chaturvyuhas chaturdamstras chatur-bhujah ..15
Suradhyaksho: One who is the overlord of the protecting Divinities of all regions.
Krutakrutah: One who is an effect in the form of the worlds and also a non-effect as their cause.
Chaturvyuhas: One who adopts a fourfold manifestation.
Chaturbhujah: One with four arms.
Bhrajishnur-bhojanam bhokta sahishnur jagad-adhijah
Anagho vijayo jeta vishva-yonih punar-vasuh ..16
Bhojanam: Prakruti or Maya is called Bhojanam or what is enjoyed by the Lord.
Sahishnur: As He suppresses Asuras like Kiranyaksha, He is Sahishnu.
Anagho: The sinless one.
Jeta: One who is naturally victorious over beings, i.e. superior to all beings.
Punar-vasuh: One who dwells again and again in the bodies as the Jivas.
Upendro vamanah pramshur amoghah suchir urjitah
Atindrah samgrahah sargo dhrutatma niyamo yamah ..17
Vamanah: One who, in the form of Vamana (dwarf), went begging to Bali.
Amoghah: One whose acts do not go in vain.
Urjitah: One of infinite strength.
Samgrahah: One who is of the subtle form of the universe to be created.
Niyamo: One who appoints His creatures in particular stations.
Vedyo: One who has to be known by those who aspire for Mokshas.
Sada-yogi: One who is ever experienceble, being ever existent.
Madhavo: One who is the Lord or Master of Ma or knowledge.
Atindriyo: One who is not knowable by the senses.
Mahotsaho: One who is ever busy in the work of creation, sustentation and dissolution.
Mahabuddir: The wisest among the wise
Mahasaktir: One with great resources of strength and skill.
Anirdesyavapuh: One who cannot be indicated to another as: `He is this’, because He cannot be objectively known.
Ameyatma: The Spirit with intelligence that cannot be measured by any one.
Maheshvaso: One equipped with the great bow.
Shrinivasah: One on whose chest the Goddess Shri, eternal in nature, dwells.
Aniruddhah: One who has never been obstructed by any one or anything from manifesting in various forms.
Govindo: Gau means words. Thou pervadest all words, giving them power. Therefore sages call the Govinda.
Marchir: The supreme power and impressiveness seen in persons endowed with such qualities.
Hamsah: One who removes the fear of Samsara from those who practise the sense of identity with Him.
Bhujagottamah: One who is the greatest among those who move on Bhujas or arms, that is, serpents. The great serpents like Ananta and Vasuki are the powers of Vishnu, so he has come to have this name.
Sutapah: One who performs rigorous austerities at Badarikashrama as Nara and Narayana.
Prajapatih: The father of all beings, who are His children.
Amrutyuh sarva-druk simhah sandhata sandhiman sthirah
Ajo durmarshanah shasta vishrutatma surariha ..22
Sarva-druk: One who sees the Karmas of all Jivas through His inherent wisdom.
Sandhata: One who unites the Jivas with the fruits of their actions.
Sthirah: One who is always of the same nature.
Durmarshanah: One whose might the Asuras cannot bear.
Vishrutatma: One who is specially known through signifying terms like Truth, Knowledge etc.
Gurur: One who is the teacher of all forms of knowledge.
Dhama: It means brilliance.
Satya-parakamah: One of unfailing valour.
Animishah: One who is ever awake.
Vachaspatir-udaradhih: Being the master of Vak or word i.e. knowledge, He is called so. As his intellect perceives everything, He is Udaradhih. Both these epithets together constitute one name.
Agranir gramanih shriman nyayo neta samiranah
Sahsra-murdha vishvatma sahasraksha sahasrapat ..24
Gramanih: One who has the command over Bhutagrama or the collectivity of all beings.
Nyayo: The consistency which runs through all ways of knowing and which leads one to the truth of Non-duality.
Samiranah: One who in the form of breath keeps all living beings functioning.
Vishvatma: The soul of the universe.
Sahasrapat: One with a thousand, i.e. innumerable legs.
Avrtano nivrutatma samvrutah sampramardanah
Ahah samvartako vahnir anilo dharani-dharah ..25
Nivrutatma: One whose being is free or untouched by the bondage of Samsara.
Sampramardanah: One who delivers destructive blows on all beings through His Vibhutis (power manifestation like Rudra, Yama etc.).
Vahnir: One who as fire carries the offerings made to the Devas in sacrifices.
Dhanani dharah: One who supports the worlds, Adisesha, elephants of the quarters etc.
Suprasadah prasannatma vishva-dhrug vishva-bhug vibhuh
Sat-karta sat-krutah sadhur jahnur narayano narah ..26
Prasannatma: One whose mind is never contaminated by Rajas or Tamas.Vishva-dhrug: One who holds the universe by his power.
Vibhuh: One who becomes many from Hiranyagarbha downwards.
Sat-krutah: One who is adored even by those who deserve adoration.
Jahnuh: One who dissolves all beings in oneself at the time of dissolution.
Narah: He directs everything, the eternal Paramatma is called Nara”.
Asankhyeyo prameyatma visistah shishtakruch chucih
Siddharthah siddha-sankalpah siddhidah siddhisadhanah ..27
Aprameyatma: One whose nature cannot be grasped by any of the means of knowledge.
Shishtakrch: Shihstam means commandment. So, one who commands everything. Or one who protects shishtas or good men.
Siddha-sankalpah: One whose resolutions are always fulfilled.
Siddhisadhanah: One who brings fulfillment to works that deserve the same.
Vrushahi vrushabho vishnur vrushaparva vrushodarah
Vardhano vardhamanascha viviktah shruti-sagarah ..28
Vrushabho: One who showers on the devotees all that they pray for.
Vrushaparva: One who has given as steps (Parvas), observances of the nature of Dharma, to those who want to attain the supreme state.
Vardhamanascha: One who multiplies in the form of the universe.
Shruti-sagarah: One to whom all the shruti or Vedic words and sentences flow.
Subhujo durdharo vagmi mahendro vasodo vasuh
Naikarupo bruhad-rupah shipivishtah prakashana ..29
Durdharo: One who holds up the universe – a work which none else can do.
Mahendro: The great Lord, that is, the Supreme Being, who is the God of all gods.
Vasuh: One who is himself theVasu.
Bruhad-rupah: One who has adopted mysterious forms like that of a Boar.
Prakashana: One who illumines everthing.
Ojas tejo dyuti-dharah prakashatma pratapanah
Vruddhah spahstaksharo mantras chandramshur bhaskaradyutih ..30
Prakashatma: One whose form is radiant.
Vruddhah: One who is rich in excellences like Dharma, Gyana (knowledge), Vairagya (renunciation) etc.
Mantras: One who manifests as the Mantras of the Rk, Sama, Yajus etc., or one who is known through Mantras.
Bhaaskaradyutih -The Effulgence of the Sun. Sun is the centre of the solar system, an eternal exchequer of energy, ever distributing Life and Strength to all living upon the earth; life would have been impossible but for the Sun. At the same time, the Sun stays where he is and he never interferes with life; from afar he blesses life. The Lord who thus from afar blesses by His mere presence is the true Sun of Life, the Atman, the Self- Sree Maha Vishnu
Amrtamshu dbhavo bhanuh shashabinduh sureshvarah
Aushadham jagatah setuh satya-dharma-prarakramah ..31
Bhanuh: One who shines.
Sureshvarah: One who is the Lord of all Devas and those who do good.
Jagatah setuh: One who is the aid to go across the ocean of Samsara.
Bhuta-bhavya-bhavan-na- thah: One who is the master for all the beings of the past, future and present.
Pavano: One who causes movement.
Kamaha: One who destroys the desire-nature in seekers after liberation.
Kantah: One who is extremely beautiful.
Kamapradah: One who liberally fulfils the desires of devotees.
Yugadikrud: One who is the cause of periods of time like Yuga.
Naikamayo: One who can assume numerous forms of Maya, not one only.
Adrushyo: One who cannot be grasped by any of the five organs of knowledge.
Sahasrajid: One who is victorious over innumerable enemies of the Devas in battle.
Ishto: One who is dear to all because He is of the nature of supreme Bliss.
Shishtestah: One who is dear to shishta or Knowing Ones.
Vrushah: One who is of the form of Dharma.
Krodhakrut karta: One who generates Krodha or anger in evil people.
Mahidharah: Mahi means both earth and worship. So the name means one who supports the earth or receives all forms of worship.
Achyutah prathitah pranah pranado vasavanujah
Apam-nidhir adhishthanam apramattah pratishtitah ..35
Prathitah: One who is famous because of His works like creation of the worlds etc.
Pranado: One who bestows Prana, that is, strength, on Devas and Asuras and also destroys them by withdrawing it.
Apam-nidhir: The word means collectivity of water or the ocean.
Apramattah: One who is always vigilant in awarding the fruits of actions to those who are entiled to them.
Skandah: One who drives everything as air.
Dhuryo: One who bears the weight of the burden of all beings in the form of birth etc.
Vayuvahanah: One who vibrates the seven Vayus or atmospheres beginning with Avaha.
Bruhad-bhanur: The great brilliance.
Purandarah: One who destroys the cities of the enemies of Devas.
Ashokas-taranas-tarah surah saurir janeshvarah
Anukulah shatavartah padmi padma-nibhekshanah ..37
Taranas: One who uplifts beings from the ocean of samsara.
Surah: One of great prowess, that is, who fulfils the four supreme satisfactions of life – Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha.
Janeshvarah: The Lord of all beings.
Shatavartah: One who has had several Avataras or incarnations.
Padma-nibhekshana- h: One with eyes resembling lotus.
Padmanabho aravindakshah padmagarbhah sarirabhrut
Mahardhir ruddho vruddhatma mahaksho garuda-dhvajah ..38
Aravindakshah: One whose eyes resemble Aravinda or the Lotus.
Sarirabhrut: One who supports the bodies of beings, strengthening them in the form of Anna (Food) and Prana.
Ruddho: One who is seen as standing in the form of the world.
Mahaksho: One who has got two or many glorious eyes.
Atulah: One who cannot be compared to anything else.
Bhimah: One of whom everyone is afraid.
Havir-harih: One who takes the portion of offerings (Havis) in Yajnas.
Lakshmivan: One on whose chest the Goddess Lakshmi is always residing.
Viksharo: One who is without Kshara or desruction.
Margah: One who is sought after by persons seeking Moksha or Liberation.
Damodarah: One who has very benevolent mind because of disciplines like self-control.
Mahidharo: One who props up the earth in the form of mountain.
Vegavan: One of tremendous speed.
Udbhavah: One who is the material cause of creation.
Devan: `Divyati’ means sports oneself through creation and other cosmic activities.
Parameshvarah: `Parama’ means the supreme. `Ishvarah’ means one who hold sway over all beings.
Kaaranam: He who is the most important factor in the generation of this universe.
Vikarta: One who makes this unique universe.
Guhah: One who hides one’s own nature with the help of His power of Maya.
Vyavasayo vyavasthanah samsthanah sthanado dhruvah
Parardhih parama-spashtas tushtah pushtah subhekshanah ..42
Vyavasthanah: He in whom the orderly regulation of the universe rests.
Sthanado: One who gives their particular status to persons like Dhruva according to their Karma.
Parardhih: One who possesses lordliness of this most exalted type.
Tushtah: One who is of the nature of supreme.
Subhekshanah: One whose Ikshanam or vision bestows good on all beings that is, gives liberation to those who want Moksha and enjoyments to those who are after it, and also cuts asunder the knots of the heart by eliminating all doubts.
Ramo viramo virato margo neyo nayonayah
Veera shaktimatam shreshtho dharmo dharma-vid uttamah ..43
Viramo: One in whom the Virama or end of all beings takes place.
Margo: That path by knowing which the liberation-seeking ascetics attain to immortality.
Nayo: One who leads, that is, who is the leader in the form of spiritual illumination.
Veera: One who is valorous.
Dharmah: One who supports all beings.
Vaikunthah: The bringing together of the diversified categories is Vikuntha. He who is the agent of it is Vaikunthah.
Pranah: One who lives as Kshetrajana (knower in the body) or one who functions in the form of vital force called Prana.
Pranavah: One who is praised or to whom prostration is made with Om.
Hiranya-garbhah: He who was the cause of the golden-coloured egg out of which Brahma was born.
Vyaptah: One who as the cause pervades all effects.
Adhokshajah: He is Adhokshaja because he undergoes no degeneration from His original nature.
Rituh sudarshanah kalah parameshti parigrahah
Ugrah samvatsaro daksho vishramo vishva-dakshinah ..45
Sudarshanah: One whose Darshana or vision that is knowledge, bestows the most auspicious fruit Moksha.
Parameshti: One who dwells in his supreme greatness in the sky of the heart.
Ugrah: One who is the cause of fear even to beings like Sun.
Vishramah: One who bestows Vishrama or liberation to aspirants who seek relief from the ocean of Samsara with its waves of various tribulations in the from of Hunger, Thirst etc., and difficulties like Avidya, pride, infatuation etc.,
Vistarah: One in whom all the worlds have attained manifestation.
Pramanam: One who is of the nature of pure consciousness.
Arthah: One who is sought (Arthita) by all, as He is of the nature of bliss.
Mahakosho: One who has got as His covering the great Koshas like Annamaya, Pranamaya etc.
Mahadhanah: One who has got the whole universe as the wealth (Dhana) for His enjoyment.
Anirvinnah sthavishtho abhoohr dharma-yupo maha-makhah
Nakshatra-nemir nakshatri kshamah kshamah samihanah ..47
Sthavishtah: One of huge proportions, because He is in the form of cosmic person.
Dharma Yupah: The sacrificial post for Dharmas, that is, one to whom all the forms of Dharma, which are His own form of worship, are attached, just as a sacrificial animal is attached to a Yupa or a sacrificial post.
Nakshatra nemir: The heart of all nakshatras.
Kshamah: One who is clever in everything.
Samihanah: One who exerts well for creation etc.
Yajna ijyo mahejyas cha kratuh satram satamgatih
Sarvadarshi vimuktatma sarvagyo gynanam-uttamam ..48
Ijayah: One who is fit to be worshipped in sacrifices.
Kratuh: A Yajna in which there is a sacrificial post is Kratu.
Satamgatih: One who is the sole support for holy men who are seekers of Moksha.
Vimuktatma: One who is naturally free.
Gynanam uttamam: That consciousness which is superior to all, birthless, unlimited by time and space and the cause of all achievements.
Suvratah sumukhah sukshmah sughoshah sukhadah suhrut
Manoharo jita-krodho virabahur vidaranah ..49
Sumukhah: One with a pleasant face.
Sughoshah: One whose auspicious sound is the Veda. Or one who has got a deep and sonorous sound like the clouds.
Suhrut: One who helps without looking for any return.
Jitakrodho: One who has overcome anger.
Vidaranah: One who destroys those who live contrary to Dharma.
Svapanah svavasho vyapi naikatma naika-karma-krut
Vatsaro vatsalo vatsi ratna-garbho dhaneshvarah ..50
Svavasho: One who is dominated by oneself and not anything else, as He is the cause of the whole cosmic process.
Naikatma: One who manifests in different forms as the subsidiary agencies causing the various cosmic processes.
Vatsaro: One in whom everything dwells.
Vatsi: One who protects those who are dear to Him.
Dhaneshvarah: One who is the Lord of all wealth.
Dharmagub dharmakrud dharmi sad-asatksharam aksharam
Avigyata sahashramsur vidhata kruta-lakshanah ..51
Dharmakrud: Though above. Dharma and Adharma, He performs Dharma in order to keep up the traditions in respect of it.
Sad: The Parabrahman who is of the nature of truth.
Ksharam: All beings subjected to change.
Avigyata: One who is without the attributes of a Jiva or vigyata like sense of agency etc.
Vidhata: One who is the unique support of all agencies like Ananta who bear the whole universe.
Gabhasti-nemih: He who dwells in the middle of Gabhasti or rays as the Sun.
Simho: One who ahs irresistible power like a lion.
Adidevo: He who is the first of all beings.
Devesah: One who is the lord of all Devas, being the most important among them.
Uttaro: One who is Uttirna or liberated from Samsara.
Gopta: One who is the protector of all beings.
Puratanah: One who is not limited by time and who existed before anything else.
Bhokta: One who protects. Or one who is the enjoyer of infinite bliss.
Bhuridakshinah: One to whom numerous Dakshinas or votive offerings are made in Yagyas.
Somapo amrutapah somah purujit purushottamah
Vinayo jayah satyasandho dasharhah satvatampatih ..54
Amrutapah: One who drinks the drink of immortal Bliss which is of one’s own nature.
Purujit: One who gains victory over numerous people.
Vinayo: One who inflicts Vinaya or punishment on evil ones.
Satyasandho: One whose `Sandha’ or resolve becomes always true.
Satvatampatih: `Satvatam’ is the name of a Tantra. So the one who gave it out or commented upon it.
Jivo vinayita-sakshi mukundo amita vikramah
Ambhonidhir anantatma mahodadhishayonatakah ..55
Vinayita-sakshi: One who witnesses the Vinayita or worshipful attitude of all devotees.
Amita vikramah: One whose three strides were limitless.
Anantatma: One who cannot be determined by space, time and causation.
Antakah: One who brings about the end of all beings.
Ajo maharhah svabhavyo jitamitrah pramodanah
Anando nandano nandah satya-dharma trivikramah ..56
Maharhah: One who is fit for worship.
Jitamitrah: One who has conquered the inner enemies like attachment, anger etc. as also external enemies like Ravana, Kumbhakarna etc.
Anando: One whose form is Ananda or Bliss.
Nandah: One endowed with all perfections.
Trivikramah: One whose three strides covered the whole world.
Maharshih kapilacharyah krutagyo medini-patih
Tripadas tridashadhyaksho mahashrungah krutantakrut ..57
Krutagyo: Kruta means the world because it is of the nature of an effect.
Tripadas: One having three strides.
Mahashrungah: One with a great antenna.
Mahavaraho: The great Cosmic Boar.
Sushenah: One who has got about Him an armed guard in the shape of His eternal associates.
Guhyo: One who is to be known by the Guhya or the esoteric knowledge conveyed by the Upanishads. Or one who is hidden in the Guha or heart.
Gahano: One who could be entered into only with great difficulty. One who is the witness of the three states of waking, dreams and sleep as also their absence.
Chakra-gada-dharah: One who has discus and Gada in hand.
Vedhah svango ajitah krishno drudhah sankarshano acyutah
Varuno vaaruno vrukshah pushkaraksho mahamanah ..59
Svango: One who is oneself the participant in accomplishing works.
Krishno: One who is known as Krishna-dvaipayana.
Sankarshano- Acyutah: Sankarshana is one who attracts to oneself all beings at the time of cosmic Dissolution and Acyuta is one who knows no fall from His real nature. They form one word with the first as the qualification – Acyuta who is sankarshana.
Vaaruno: Vasishta or Agastya, the sons of Varuna.
Pushkaraksho: One who shines as the light of consciousness when meditated upon in the lotus of the heart. Or one who has eyes resembling the lotus.
Bhagavan: The origin, dissolution, the bondage and salvation of creatures, knowledge, ignorance – one who knows all these is Bhagavan.
Anandi: One whose nature is Ananda (bliss).
Halayudhah: One who in His incarnation as Balabhadra had Hala or ploughshare as His weapon.
Jyotir-adityah: One who dwells in the brilliance of the sun’s orb.
Gatisattamah: One who is the ultimate resort and support of all, and the greatest of all beings.
Sudhanva-khandaparashur- -daruno dravinapradah
Divah-spruk sarva-drug vyaso vachaspatir ayonijah ..61
Khanda-parashur: The battle-axe that destroys enemies.
Dravinapradah: One who bestows the desired wealth on devotees.
Sarva-drug vyaso: One whose comprehension includes everything in its ambit.
Trisama: One who is praised by the chanters of Sama-gana through the three Samas known as Devavratam.
Sama: Among the Vedas, I am Sama Veda.
Bheshajam: The medicine for the disease of Samsara.
Sanyasakrut: One who instituted the fourth Ashrama of Sanyasa for the attainment of Moksha.
Santo: The peaceful, being without interest in pleasures of the world.
Santih: One in whom there is complete erasing of Avidya or ignorance. That is Brahman.
Shubhangah: One with a handsome form.
Srashta: One who brought forth everything at the start of the creative cycle.
Kuvalesayah: ‘Ku’ means earth. That which surrounds it is water, so ‘Kuvala’ means water. One who lies in water is Kuvalesaya. ‘Kuvala’ also means the underside of serpents. One wholies on a serpent, known as Adisesha, is Kuvalesaya.
Gopatir: The Lord of the earth is Vishnu.
Vrushabhaksho: One whose eyes can rain all desirable objects on devotees. Vrushabha means Dharma and so one whose look is Dharma.
Anivarti: One who never retreats in the battle with Asuras. Or one who, being devoted to Dharma, never abandons it.
Samkshepta: One who at the time of cosmic dissolution contracts the expansive universe into a subtle state.
Chivah: One who purifies everyone by the very utterance of His name.
Shrivasah: One on whose chest Shridevi always dwells.
Shrimatam-varah: One who is supreme over all deities like Brahma who are endowed with power and wealth of the Vedas.
Shridah shrishah shrinivasah shrinidhih shri-vibhavanah
Shridharah shrikarah shreyah shriman loka-trayashrayah ..65
Shrishah: One who is Lord of the Goddess Shri.
Shrinidhih: One who is the seat of all Shri, that is, virtues and powers.
Shridharah: One who bears on His chest Shri who is the mother of all.
Shreyah: ‘Shreyas’ means the attainment of what is un-decaying good and happiness. Such a state is the nature of the Lord.
Loka-trayashrayah: One who is the support of all the three worlds.
Svakshah svangah shatanando nandir jyotir-ganeshvarah
Vijitatma vidheyatma satkirtischinna-samsayah ..66
Svangah: One whose limbs are beautiful.
Nandir: One who is of the nature of supreme Bliss.
Vijitatma: One who has conquered the Atma that is the mind.
Satkriti: One whose fame is of the nature of truth.
Udirnah: He who is superior to all beings.
Anisah: One who cannot have anyone to lord over him.
Bhushayo: One who, while seeking the means to cross over to Lanka, had to sleep on the ground of the sea-beach.
Bhutir: One who is the abode or the essence of everthing, or is the source of all glorious manifestations.
Shokanashanah: One who effaces the sorrows of devotees even by mere remembrance.
Archishman architah kumbho vishuddhatma vishodhanah
Aniruddho pratirathah pradyumno amita-vikramah ..68
Architah: One who is worshipped by Brahma and other Devas who are themselves the objects of worship in all the worlds.
Vishuddhatma: Being above the three Gunas, Satva, Rajas and Tamas, the Lord is pure spirit and is also free from all impurities.
Aniruddho: The last one of the four Vyuhas – Vasudeva, Samkarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. Or one who, cannot be obstructed by enemies.
Pradyumno: One whose Dyumna or wealth is of a superior and sacred order. Or one of the four Vyuhas.
Kalanemi-niha: One who destroyed the Asura named Kalanemi.
Saurih: One who was born in the clan of Sura as Krishna.
Trilokatma: One who in his capacity as the inner pervade is the soul for the three worlds.
Keshavah: By Kesha is meant the rays of light spreading within the orbit of the sun.
Harih: One who destroys Samsara, that is, entanglement in the cycle of birth and death along with ignorance, its cause.
Kamadevah kamapalah kami kantah krutagamah
Anirdeshya-vapur vishnur viro ananto dhananjayah ..70
Kamapalah: One who protects or assures the desired ends of people endowed with desires.
Kantah: One whose form is endowed with great beauty. Or one who effects the ‘Anta’ or dissolution of ‘Ka’ or Brahma at the end of a Dviparardha. (the period of Brahma’s lifetime extending over a hundred divine years).
Anirdeshya-vapur: He is called so, because, being above the Gunas, His form cannot be determined.
Viro: One who has the power of Gati or movement.
Dhananjayah: Arjuna is called so because by his conquest of the kingdoms in the four quarters he acquired great wealth. Arjuna is a Vibhuti, a glorious manifestation of the Lord.
Brahmanyo brahmakrud-brahma brahma brahma-vivardhanah
Brahmavid brahmano brahmi brahmgno brahmana-priyah ..71
Brahmakrud: One who performs Brahma or Tapas (austerity).
Brahma: Being big expanding, the Lord who is known from indications like Satya (Truth), is called Brahma. Or Brahma is Truth, Knowledge and Infinity!
Brahmavid : One who knows the Vedas and their real meaning.
Brahmi: One in whom is established such entities as Tapas, Veda, mind, Prana etc. which are parts of Brahma and which are also called Brahma.
Brahmanapriyah: One to whom holy men are devoted.
Mahakramo mahakarma mahateja mahoragah
Mahakratur mahayajva mahayagyo mahahavih ..72
Mahakarma: One who is performing great works like the creation of the world.
Mahoragah: He is also the great serpent.
Mahayajva: One who is great and performs sacrifices for the good of the world.
Mahahavih: The whole universe conceived as Brahman and offered as sacrificial offering (Havis) into the fire of the Self, which is Brahman.
Stavyah Stavapriyah stotram stutih stota ranapriyah
Purnah purayita punyah punyakirtir anamayah ..73
Stavapriyah: One who is pleased with hymns.
Stutih: A praise.
Ranapriyah: One who is fond of fight for the protection of the world, and for the prupose always sports in His hands the five weapons, the discus Sudarshana, the mace Kaumodaki, the bow Saranga, and the sword Nandaka besides the conch Panchajanya.
Purayita: One who is not only self-fulfilled but gives all fulfillments to others.
Punyakirtir: One of holy fame. His excellences are capable of conferring great merit on others.
Manojavas: One who, being all pervading, is said to be endowed with speed likes that of the mind.
Vasureta: He whose Retas (Semen) is gold (Vasu).
Vasuprado: One who bestows on devotees the highest of all wealth, namely Moksha.
Vasur: He in whom all creation dwells.
Havih: Havis or sacrificial offerings
Sadgatih sat-krutih satta sad-bhutih sat-parayanah
Suraseno yadushreshthah sannivasah suyamunah ..75
Sat-krutih: One whose achievements are for the protection of the world.
Sad-bhutih: The Paramatman who is pure existence and conscousness, who is unsublatable and who manifests Himself in many ways.
Suraseno: One having an army of heroic wariours like Hanuman.
Sannivasah: One who is the resort of holy knowing ones.
Bhutavaso: He in whom all the beings dwell.
Sarvasu-nilayo: He in whose form as the Jiva all the vital energy or Prana of all living beings dissolves.
Darpaha: One who puts down the pride of persons who walk along the unrighteous path.
Drupto: One who is ever satisfied by the enjoyment of His own inherent bliss.
Aparajita: One who is never conquered by internal enemies like attachment and by external enemies like Asuras.
Vishvamurtir mahamurtir diptamurtir amurtiman
Anekamurtir avyaktah shatamurtih shatananah ..77
Mahamurtir: One with an enormous form stretched on a bedstead constituted of the serpent Adisesha.
Amurtiman: He who is without a body born of Karma.
Avyaktah: One who cannot be clearly described as ‘This’ even though He has many forms.
Shatananah: He is called one with a hundred faces to indicate that He has several forms.
Eko naikah savah kah kim yat tat padam-anuttamam
Lokabandhur lokanatho madhavo bhakta-vastalah ..78
Naikah: One who has numerous bodies born of Maya.
Kah: The syllable ‘Ka’ indicatesjoy or happiness. So it means one who is hymned as constituted of joy.
Yat: One who is by nature existent. The word ‘Yat’ indicates a self-subsisting entity.
Padam-anuttamam: Braman is ‘Pada’ or Status, because He is the goal of all Moksha-seekers. It is Anuttama, because It is that beyond which there is nothing else to be attained.
Lokanathah: One to whom all the worlds pray.
Bhaktavatsalah: One who has got love for devotees.
Suvarna varno hemango varangas chandanangadi
Viraha vishamah sunyo ghrutasir achalaschalah ..79
Hemango: One whose form is like that of gold.
Chandanangadi: One who is adorned with armlets that generate joy.
Vishamah: One to whom there is no euql because nothing is comparable to Him by any characteristic.
Ghrutasir: One whose blessings are unfailing.
Chalah: One who moves in the form of air.
Amani manado manyo lokasvami triloka-dhruk
Sumedha medhajo dhanyah satyamedha dharadharah ..80
Manado: One who by His power of Maya induces the sense of self in non-self. Or one who has regard and beneficence towards devotees. Or one who destroys in the knowing ones the sense of identification with the non-self.
Lokasvami: One who is the Lord of all the fourteen spheres.
Sumedha: One with great and beneficent intelligence.
Dhanyah: One who has attained all His ends and therefore is self-satisfied.
Dharadharah: One who supports the worlds by His fractiosn like Adisesha.
Tejovrusho dyuti-dharah sarva-shastra-bhrutam-varah
Pra- grahonigraho vyagro naikashrungo gadagrajah ..81
Dyuti-dharah: One whose form is always brilliant.
Pragraho: One who accepts the offerings of devotees with great delight.
Vyagro: One who has no Agra or end. Or one who is very attentive (Vyagra) in granting the prayers of devotees.
Gadagrajah: One who is revealed first by Mantra (Nigada). Or one who is the elder rbother of Gada.
Chaturmurtis chaturbahus chaturvyuhas chaturgatih
Chaturatma chaturbhavas chaturvedavid ekapat ..82
Chaturbahus: One with four arms, as Vasudeva is always described.
Chatur-gatih: One who is sought as the end by the four Orders of life and four Varnas ordained by the scriptures.
Chaturbhavas: One from whom has originated the four human values – Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha.
Ekapat: One with a single Pada, part or leg. Or one with a single foot or manifestation.
Samavarto anivrutatma durjayo duratikramah
Durlabho durgamo durgo duravaso durariha ..83
Anivrutatma: One who is not Nivruta (separated from) anything or anywhere, because He is all-pervading.
Duratikramah: One out of fear of whom, even heavenly objects like sun do not dare to oppose His command.
Durgamo: One whom it is difficult to attain.
Duravaso: He whom the Yogis with very great difficulty bring to reside in their hearts in Samadhi.
Shubhango: One whose form is very auspicious to meditate upon.
Sutantus: As this universe of infinite extension belongs to Him, the Lord is called Sutantu.
Indrakarma: One whose actions are like that of Indra, that is, are of a highly commendable nature.
Krutakarma: One who has fulfilled everything and has nothing more to accomplish.
Udbhavah: One who assumes great and noble embodiments out of His own will.
Sundo: One who is noted for extreme tenderness (Undanam).
Sulochanah: One who has brilliant eyes, that is, knowledge of everything.
Vajasanah: One who gives Vajam (food) to those who entreat Him.
Jayantah: One who conquers enemies easily.
Suvarna-bindur: One whose ‘Bindus’ that is, limbs, are euaql to gold in brilliance.
Sarva-vagishvareshv- arah: One who is the master of all masters of learning, including Brahma.
Maha-garto: One whose Maya is difficult to cross like a ddp pit.
Mahanidhih: One in whom all the great elements have their support. He is Mahan or a great one and ‘Nidhi’, the most precious one.
Kumudah kundarah kundah parjanyah pavano anilah
Amrutasho amrutavapuh sarvagyah sarvato-mukha ..87
Kundarah: One who offers blessings as pure as Kunda or jasmine.
Parjanyah: The word means cloud. One who resembles the cloud in extinguishing the three Tapas (heats, that is, miseries) arising from psychological, material and spiritual causes. Or one who rains all desires like a cloud.
Anilah: ‘Ilanam’ means inducement. One who is without any inducement is Anila. Ilana also means sleep. So one who sleeps not or is ever awake is Anila.
Amrutavapuh: One whose form is deathless, that is, undecaying.
Sarvatomukhah: One who has faces everywhere.
Sulabhah suvratah siddhah shatru-jit shatru-tapanah
Nyagrodho adumbaro-svatthas chanurandhra-nishudhanah ..88
Suvratah: ‘Vratati’ means enjoys. So, one who enjoys pure offerings. It can also mean one who is a non-enjoyer, that is, a mere witness.
Shatru-jit: Conqueror of all forces of evil.
Nyagrodho: That which remains above all and grows downward. That is, He is the source of everything that is manifest.
Asvatthas: That which does not last even for the next day.
Sahasrarchi: One with innumerable Archis or rays.
Saptaidhah: The Lord who is of the nature of fire has seven Edhas or forms of brilliance.
Amurtir: One who is without sins or without sorrow.
Bhayakrud: One who generates fear in those who go along the evil path. Or one who cuts at the root of all fear.
Anur: One who is extremely subtle.
Krusah: One who is non-material.
Gunabrun: The support of the Gunas. He is so called because in the creative cycle of creation, sustentation, and dissolution, He is the support of the Gunas – Satva, Rajas and Tamas – with which these functions are performed.
Mahan: The great.
Svadhrutah: One supported by oneself.
Pragvamsho: The family lines of others are preceded by the lines of still others, but the Lord’s descendent, namely, the world system, is not preceded by anything else.
Bhara-bhrut: One who bears the weight of the earth assuming the form of Ananta.
Yogi: Yoga here means knowledge. So He who is attained by that is Yogi. Or Yoga means Samadhi. He who is ever established in His own Self, that is, the Paramatma. He is therefore Yogi.
Sarva-kamadah: One who bestows all desired fruits.
Shramanah: One who brings tribulations to those who live without using their discriminative power.
Suparnah: The lord who has manifested Himself as the tree of Samsara has excellent leaves (Parna) in the form of Vedic passages (Chandas).
Dhanurdharo: He who as Rama wielded the great bow.
Dando: He who is discipline among the disciplinarians.
Damah: He who is in the form of self-descipline in men as a result of enforcement.
Sarvasaho: One who is expert in all Karmas (works).
Aniyamo: One on whom there is no enforcement of any law, or above whom there can be no overlord to enforce anything, as He is the controller of everything.
Satvavan: One who has got the strengthening qualities like heroism, prowess etc.
Satyah: One who is truly established in good people.
Abhiprayah: The One who is sought after by those who seek the ultimate values of life (Purushartha).
Arhah: One who deserves to be worshipped with all the ingredients and rites of worship like offerings, praise, prostration etc.
Pritivardhanah: One who enhances the joys of devotees.
Vihayasagatir jyotih suruchir huta-bhug vibhuh
Ravir virochanah suryah savita ravilochanah ..94
Jyotih: One who is the light of self-luminous consciousness that reveals oneself as well as other things.
Huta-bhug: One who eats, that is, receives, whatever is offered to whatever deities (Devas) in all sacrifices.
Ravir: One who absorbs all Rasas (fluids) in the form of the Sun.
Suryah: One who generates Shri or brilliance in Surya. Or Agni (Fire) is what is called Surya.
Ravi-lochanah: One having the sun as the eye.
Ananto huta-bhug bhokta sukhado naikajo-grajah
Anirvinnah sadamarshi lokadhishthana-madbhutah ..95
Hutabhuk: One who consumes what is offered in firesacrifices.
Sukhado: One who bestows liberation (Miksha) on devotees.
Agrajah: One who was born before everything else, that is, Hiranya-garbha.
Sadamarshi: One who is always patient towards good men.
Adbhutah: The wonderful being.
Sanat sanatana-tamah kapilah kapir avyayah
Svastidah svastikrut svasti svastibhuk svasti-dakshinah ..96
Sanatana-tamah: Being the cause of all, He is more ancient than Brahma and other beings, who are generally considered eternal.
Kapir: ‘Ka’ means water. One who drinks or absorbs all water by his Kapi, that is, the sun.
Svastikrut: One who works bestowing what is good.
Svastibhuk: One who enjoys the Svasti mentioned above or who preserves the Svasti of devotees.
Araudrah: Action, attachment and anger these three are Raudra. The Lord is one whose desires are all accomplished, so He has no attachment or aversion. So He is free from theRaudras mentioned above.
Chakri: One who sports in his hand the discus named Sudarshana, which is the category known as Manas, for the protection of all the worlds.
Urjita-shasanah: One whose dictates in the form of shrutis and smrutis are of an extremely sublime nature.
Sabdasahah: One who is the purport of all Vedas.
Sarvari-karah: For those in bondage, the Atman is like Sarvari (night) and for an enlightened one the state of samsara is like night (Sarvari). So the Lord is called the one who generates Sarvari or night for both the enlightened and the bound ones.
Akrurah peshalo daksho dakshinah kshiminam varah
Vidvattamo vitabhayah punya-shravana-kirtanah ..98
Peshalo: One who is handsome in regard to His actions, mind, word and body.
Dakshinah: This word is also means the same as the above Nama.
Vidvattamo: He who has got the unsurpassable and all-inclusive knowledge of everything.
Punya-shravana-kirt- anah: One to hear about whom and to sing of whom is meritorious.
Uttarano dushkrutiha punyo duh-svapna-nasanah
Viraha rakshanah santo jivanah paryavasthitah ..99
Dushkrutiha: One who effaces the evil effects of evil actions. Or one who destroys those who perform evil.
Duh-svapna-nasanah: When adored and meditated upon, He saves one from dreams foreboding danger. Hence He is called so.
Rakshanah: One who, assuming the Satvaguna, protects all the three worlds.
Jivanah: One who supports the lives of all beings as Prana.
Ananta-rupo: One who has innumerable forms, as He dwells in this all-comprehending universe.
Jitamanyur: One who has overcome anger.
Chaturashro: One who is just, because He bestows on Jivas the fruits of their Karma.
Vidisho: One who distributes various furits of actions to persons differing in their forms according to competency.
Dishah: One who in the form of the Vedas bestows the fruits of their ritualistic actions on different beings.
Anadi bhurbhuvo lakshmih suviro ruchirangadah
Janano janajanmadir bhimo bhima-parakramah ..101
Bhurbhuvo: ‘Bhu’ means support. One who is the support (Bhu) of even the earth, which is known to support all things.
Suviro: One who has many brilliant ways of manifestation.
Janano: One who gives brith to living beings.
Bhimo: One who is the cause of fear.
Adharanilayo: One who is the support of even all the basic supporting factors like the five elements – Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.
Pushpahasah: One whose manifestation as the universe resembles the Hasa or blooming of buds into flowers.
Urdhvagah: One who is above everything.
Pranadah: One who givesback life to dead ones as in the case of Parikshit.
Panah: It comes from the root ‘Prana’ meaning transaction. So one who bestows the fruits of Karma on all according to their Karma.
Prmanam prananilayah pranabhrut pranajivanah
Tatvam tatvavidekatma janma-mrutyu-jaratigah ..103
Prananilayah: The home or dissolving ground of the Pranas.
Pranajivanah: He who keeps alive human beings with Vayus (airs) known as Prana, Apana etc., Tattvam: “the Reality” –that which is eternal, the essence. “That which one gains in subjective realization is the self,” Sree Narayana
Ekatma: One who is the sole being and the spirit (Atma) in all.
Bhur-bhuvah-svastarus: The three Vyahrutis Bhuh, Bhuvah, Svah are said to be the essence of the Veda.
Prapitamahah: One who is the father of Brahma and therefore the grandfather of all.
Yagya-patir: One who is the protector and the master of the Yagyas.
Yagyango: All the parts of His body as the incarnate Cosmic Boar are identified with the parts of a yagya.
Yagyabhrud: He is so called, because He is the protector and supporter of all yagyas.
Yagyi: One who is the Principal.
Yagyasadhanah: One to whom the Yagya is the approach.
Yagyaguhyam: The gyana yagya or the sacrifice of knowledge, which is the esoteric (Guhyam) of all the yagyams.
Annada eva cha: One who is the eater of the whole world as food. The word Eva is added to show that He is also Anna, the food eaten.
Atmayonih svayamjato vaikhanah samagayanah
Devaki-nandanah srashtha kshitishah papanashanah ..106
Svayam-jato: He is also the instrumental cause.
Samagayanah: One who recites the Sama chants.
Srashtha: The creator of all the worlds.
Papanashanah: He who destroys the sins of those who adore Him, meditate upon Him, remember and sing hymns of praise on Him.
Shankhabrun -nandaki chakri sharangadhnva gadadharah
Rathanga panirakshobhyah sarva-praharanayudhah ..107
Nandaki: One who has in His hand the sword known as Nandaka, which stands for Vidya (spiritual illumination).
Sharnga-dhanvaa :“One who aims his unerring bow called Saarnga.” This bow of Narayana is glorified in our texts as representing the Ego, as the ‘apex’ of all the sense organs, Ahankaara-Tattva. In this concluding Stanza, the instruments of Blessing in sree Narayana’s hands are remembered with reverence and devotion.
Rathangapani: One in whose hand is a wheel (Chakra).
Sarva-praharana-yudha- h: There is no rule that the Lord has got only the above-mentioned weapons. All things, which can be used for contacting or striking, are His weapons.
1. (In the above verses have been given a complete enumeration of the thousand divine names of the the Great Being Keshava, who is the fit object for all praise and prayer.)
(Nothing evil or inauspicious will befall a man here or hereafter who daily hears or repeats these names)
Vedan-tago bramhana-syat kshatriyo vijayee bavet
Vaisyo dhana-samru-ddhasyat shhoodra sukha mavap-nuyat
Dharmarthee prapnu-yatdharmam artharthee chartha mapnuyat
Kamana-vapnuyat-kamee prajarthee chapnu-yat-prajam
5.Bhaktimaan Yah Sadotthyaaya Suchis-tadgata Maanasahah
Sahasram Vaasudevasya Naamnaam Etat Prakeertayet
(Whichever devoted man, getting up early in the morning and purifying himself, repeats this hymn devoted to Vaasudeva, with a mind that is concentrated on Him.. )
6. Yashah Prapnoti Vipulam Jnaati Praadhaanyam Eva Cha
Achalaam Sriyam Aapnoti Sreyah Praapnotyanuttamam
(That man attains to great fame, leadership among his peers, wealth that is secure and the supreme good unsupassed by anything....)
7. Na Bhayam Kvachid Aapnoti Veeryam Tejasya Vindati
Bhavatyarogo Dyutimaan Bala-roopa-gunaanvitahah
(He will be free from all fears and be endowed with great courage and energy and he will be free from diseases. Beauty of form, strength of body and mind, and virtuous character will be natural to him.)
8. Rogarto muchyate rogat baddho muchyeta bandhanat Bhaya nmuchyeta bheetastu muchye tapanna apadha
9.Durganya-titara tyashu purushah purusho-ttamam Stuva nnama-saha-srena nityam bhakti saman-vitah
10. Vaasudeva-ashrayo Martyo Vaasudeva Paraayanahah
Sarva Paapa Vishudhaatmaa Yaati Brahma Sanaatanam
(Free from all sins, a man devoted to Vaasudeva and completely dependent on Him attains to the eternal status of Brahman.)
11.Na vasu-deva bhakta-nam ashubham vidyate kvachit
Janma mrithyu jara vyadhi bhayam naivapa jayate
(No inauspicious things can happen to a devotee of Vasudeva. The person will conquer the cycle of birth, death, fear and disease.)
12.Emam stava madhee-yanah shraddha-bhakti sama-nvitah
Yujye tatam sukha-kshantih shree-dhrati smruti keertibhih
(One who reads this hymn every day with devotion and attention attains peace of mind, patience, prosperity, mental stability, memory and reputation.)
13.Na krodho na matsaryam na lobho na shubha-matih
Bhavanti kruta punyanam bhakta-nam puru-shottame
(Such a person is not caught by anger, binding, jealousy, or any inauspicious event. Such a bhakta becomes a "punyatma" and merges with the Purshottama (i.e. supreme being))
14.Dhyou sachan-drarka nakshatra kham disho bhoorma-hodadhih
Vasu-devasya veeryena vidhrutani mahat-manah
15.Sa-sura-sura gandharvam sa-yaksho-raga raksha-sam
Jaga-dvashe varta-tedam krishnasya sachara-charam
16.Indri-yani mano-buddhih satvam tejo-balam dhrutih
Vasu-devatma kanyahuh kshetram-kshetragyna eva cha
17.Sarva-gamana macharah prathamam pari-kalpate
Aachara prabhavo dharmo dharmasya pradhu-rachyutah
(The rishis, pitrus, the devas, the great elements and in fact all things moving and unmoving constituting this universe have originated from Naaraayana. )
19.Yogo gynanam tatha sankhyam vidya shilpadi karma-cha
Vedah shasthrani vigynana etat-sarvam janar-danat
(The Yoga, Jnaana, Saamkya, sciences, arts, works, Vedas, scriptures, spiritual illumination -- all these have originated from Janaardhana.)
20.Eko-vishnu rmaha-dbhootam prutha-gbhoota nyanekasah
Trilon-lokan-vyapya-- bhootatma bhujkte vishva-bhugavyayah
(Whoever desires advancement and happiness should repeat this devotional hymn on Vishnu composed by Vyaasa.)
22.Vishve-shvara majam devam jagatah prabhu mavyam
Bhajanti ye pushka-raksham nate yanti para-bhavam
Na te yanti para-bhavam om nama iti
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