विष्णुसहस्रनाम स्तोत्र (महाभारत अनुशासन पर्व - जगद्गुरु आदि शंकराचार्य भाष्य सानुवाद सटीक)

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making 637 Kārikās altogether. The unknown author of
this commentary only recapitulates the explanation given
by our great Āchārya Śrī Śaṅkara. Here and there he
helps with some fine ideas for certain names and I have
added these explanations in their respective places and
marked as Ka. This commentary may be one of the four
referred to by the author of the Nāmakārikā commentaries.
Every tenth name of the 1,000 names has been given in his
37 verses for rules so that the repeater should not make
mistakes in uttering this hymn. There are 1,031 single
names in the Sahasranāma. The extra 31 names are to be
used as Viseshna, i.e., qualifying the names which are
next to them. When one makes Archana to the Deity the
correct dative case is also referred to in this Kārikā. There
are 5 double names in the first hundred (names 12, 16,
30, 46 and 55), 2 in the second (120 and 124), 4 in the third
(217, 232, 275, . . .), 4 in the fourth (333, 359, 390 and 399)
and (400), 5 in the fifth (404, 427, 429, 454 and 493), 6 in the
sixth (514, 531, 552, 564, 572 and 573), 1 in the seventh (627)
and 4 in the eighth (. . ., 732, 794, 799). The 896th name
is an indeclinable one (avyaya). It should be used in the
Archana as Sanāt Namah ; the 929th name, being
plural, as Sadbhyo Namah. The author ends with a
verse, “ Thus the learned should perform Archana, consult-
ing this commentary for correctly uttering the names in
dative case and suffixing ‘ Namah ’ to each name ”.
The MS. contains also at the end, the 25th Chapter,
extracts from the Bhrigu Saṁhitā and called “ Sahasra-
nāmārchana vidhi ”. This Samhitā is one of the four
belonging to the Vaikhānasa sect.¹ This 25th Chapter
¹ Marīchi Saṁhitā containing 96 Paṭalas, with about 5,000 grandhas.
(2) Bhrigu, the largest, containing about 15,000 grandhas dividing into
18 Adhikāras, as Yejnādhikāra, Kriyādhikāra, etc., (3) Atri Saṁhitā
with 32 Chapters, (4) Kāsyapa, 2,000 Grandhas. The MSS. were
secured long ago and deposited in the libraries assisted by me, at
Adyar, Mysore and Baroda.