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making 637 Karikas altogether. The unknown author of
this commentary only recapitulates the explanation given
by our great Acharya Sri Sankara. 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 Namakarika 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 Sahasranama. 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 Karika. 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 Sanat 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 Samhita and called "Sahasra-
nâmarchana vidhi". This Samhita is one of the four
belonging to the Vaikhanasa sect.' This 25th Chapter
Mar Ichi Samhita containing 96 Patalas, with about 5,000 grandhas.
(2) Bhrigu, the largest, containing about 15.000 grandhas dividing into
18 Adhikaras, as Yejnádhikära, Kriyadhikära, etc., (3) Atri Samhita
with 32 Chapters, (4) Kásyapa, 2,000 Grandhas. The MSS. were
secured long ago and deposited in the libraries assisted by me, at
Adyar, Mysore and Baroda.
making 637 Karikas altogether. The unknown author of
this commentary only recapitulates the explanation given
by our great Acharya Sri Sankara. 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 Namakarika 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 Sahasranama. 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 Karika. 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 Sanat 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 Samhita and called "Sahasra-
nâmarchana vidhi". This Samhita is one of the four
belonging to the Vaikhanasa sect.' This 25th Chapter
Mar Ichi Samhita containing 96 Patalas, with about 5,000 grandhas.
(2) Bhrigu, the largest, containing about 15.000 grandhas dividing into
18 Adhikaras, as Yejnádhikära, Kriyadhikära, etc., (3) Atri Samhita
with 32 Chapters, (4) Kásyapa, 2,000 Grandhas. The MSS. were
secured long ago and deposited in the libraries assisted by me, at
Adyar, Mysore and Baroda.