विष्णुसहस्रनामावलिः शाङ्करभाष्यसमेता /4

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
 

 
THE warm reception accorded last year by the devotees of

Lalitaā to the revised and enlarged second edition of my

English translation of Lalita Sahasranaāma, with the com-

mentary of Bhaskararaya, has induced me to respond to

the call of the devotees of our Lord Vishnu, by publishing

in a revised and enlarged form my English translation of

Vishnu Sahasranaāma with Sri Sankara's commentary

and those of others. The first edition of this translation

was brought out by me, a quarter of a century ago, under

the auspices of that true patriotic Aryan, the late lamented

and venerable Dr. Subramania Iyer.
 

 
In preparing this second edition, I have carefully

consulted all the available commentaries now extant. But

while I was touring in Malabar last summer, I came across

an old MSS. of a Vyaākhya by some Sanyaāsin and a glos-

sary on it by one Niīlakantha which I secured with the help

of the then President of the Malabar District Board,

Mr. Madhava Raja. I found the author of the Vyaākhya had

consulted all the then available commentaries by our

great AcharyaĀchryās, and had composed one verse for each name,

called Namakaārikā. Being a follower of Sri Sankara, he

gives first Sri Sankara's explanation and then those of

others, wherever there is a difference, which I found to be

verbatim quotations mostly from Sri Paraāsara Bhatta's

Vyaākhya. Sri Paraāsara Bhatta belongs to the school of

Visishtaādvaitins and hence he bases his explanations on the