विष्णुसहस्रनामावलिः शाङ्करभाष्यसमेता /12

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making 637 Kaārikaās altogether. The unknown author of

this commentary only recapitulates the explanation given

by our great AchaĀchārya Sri SŚri Śankara. 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 Naāmakaārika commentaries.
ā 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 Sahasranaāma. 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 Kaārikaā. 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 Sanaāt 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 Samhitaā and called "Sahasra-
nâma
nāmārchana vidhi". This Samhita is one of the four
ā is one of the four
belonging to the Vaikhaānasa sect.' This 25th Chapter
 

 
Mar Ichi Samhitaā containing 96 Patalas, with about 5,000 grandhas.

(2) Bhrigu, the largest, containing about 15.000 grandhas dividing into

18 Adhikaāras, as Yejnáādhikäāra, Kriyaādhikäāra, etc., (3) Atri Samhita
ā
with 32 Chapters, (4) Káāsyapa, 2,000 Grandhas. The MSS. were

secured long ago and deposited in the libraries assisted by me, at

Adyar, Mysore and Baroda.