VISHNU SAHASRANAMA - PART 19

Sloka 86

suvarnabindurakshobhyah sarvavagisvaresvarah |
mahahrado mahagarto mahabhuto mahanidhih ||

803. suvarna-binduh - a) He Who concealed the truth of the vedic path from the asura-s with sweet words. b) He Who has a beautiful form with golden-colored beautiful limbs. c) He Who is in the form of the auspicious praNava mantra. d) He Who has a beautiful form, and Who has beautifully divided the creatures of the universe into their various parts. e) The Knower of the veda-s consisting of auspicious letters. f) He Who has the beautiful golden-colored sandalwood marks on His forehead, cheeks, etc.

804 - a-kshobhyah - He who is unshaken by desire.

805. sarva-vag-isvara-isvarah - The Lord of all who have a mastery over all words.

806. maha-hradah - a) The Vast Lake in which the sinners drown never to rise again, and the devotees dip again and again to get relief. b) He Who is associated with the deep waters, as in kAlIya mardanam, or in His reclining on the Milk Ocean. c) He Who has created the great oceans so that the earth does not become completely dry and perish.

807. maha-gartah - a) He Who pushes the great sinners into the great pit of samsAra. b) The Great Charioteer of mahabharata fame. c) The One with the Great Chariot (with the Garuda in its flag). d) He Who resides in the great mountains such as Seshacala. e) The Great Pit in which everything in this Universe originates, resides, and merges back.

808. maha-bhutah - a) He Who considers great men as His own. b) He Who is a Great Being. c) He Who is the Origin of the five elements.

809. maha-nidhih - a) He Who has the great treasure in the form of His devotees. b) He Who is a great treasure for His devotees. c) He Who is the Abode of everything in the Universe. d) He Who is like a treasure from which His devotees can draw at will.

Sloka 87

  

kumudah kundarah kundah parjanyah pavano'nilah |
amrtaso'mrta-vapuh sarva~jnah sarvato-mukhah ||

810. kumudah - a) He Who is on this earth with delight by enjoying the association with His devotees. b) One Who gladdens the earth by ridding it of the evil-doers. c) One Who bestows the auspicious world of parama padam. d) One Who delights in the sky, in the form of the sun. e) He Who wears a garland made of blue lilies.

811. kundarah - a) The Bestower of the knowledge of the Supreme Reality (kunda-rah). b) He Who dissolves or eliminates the sins accumulated over countless births (kun-darah). c) He Who bestows benefits as agreeable as the kunda flower (kunda-rah). d) He Who accepts offering that are pure like the kunda flowers (kunda-lah). e) He Who pierced the earth in His varAha incarnation in search of hiranyaksha (kum-darah). f) One Who gives what is sought or what is desired. g) He Who created the oceans by tearing apart the earth (kum-darah). h) He Who is very pleased with the offerings of the kunda pushpa-s by His devotees (kunda-rah).

812. kundah - a) He Who grants the successive stages of higher knowledge. b) He Who cleanses the sins of His devotees. c) He Who is pure and beautiful like the kunda (jasmine) flower. d) He Who bestows purity like the kunda flower to His devotees. e) He Who has the spear by name kunta (kuntah). f) One who is sharp like the kunta spear in removing the sins of His devotees (kuntah). g) He Who gave an offering of the earth to kasyapa rshi. h) He Who eliminated the bad kshatriya kings from the earth. i) He Who cleanses the earth through the sun, rain, etc.

813. parjanyah - a) He Who bestows His blessings on the devotees like the rain-cloud. b) He from whom a superior birth is attained. c) He Who protects.

814. pavanah - a) He Who is the forrn of the wind. b) He Who moves to His devotees to remove their distress. c) He Who purifies in the form of wind, agni, water, etc. d) He Who protects the protectors - the kings (pA + avanah).

815. anilah - a) He Who need not be goaded by anyone in His blessing the devotees (an-ilah). b) He Who has no enforcer above Him. c) He Who is easily accessible to His devotees (a-nilah). d) He Who is the Giver of life-breath to everything else. e) He Who is ever awakened. f) One Who needs no support. g) One Who does not have a fixed residence, One Who is in the form of the wind, etc. h) He Who has no end. i) One Who has no binding to papa, punya, etc. j) He Who gave the kingdom (to ugrasena after killing kamsa). k) He Who spent sleepless nights (planning how to save rukmini).

816. amrtasah - a) He Who feeds His devotees with the Nectar - Himself. b) He Who consumed the nectar after churning the Milk Ocean. c) One Who has an ever-living will to give fruits. d) One Whose wishes are failure-proof. e) One Who is dear to the mukta-s. f) One Who provides unending means of survival for His creation.

817. amrta-vapuh - a) He of a Nectar-like body. b) He Who has an immortal form. c) He Who sows and cuts the lives of this Universe continuously irrespective of time.

819. sarvaj~nah - a) He Who knows all. b) He Who knows all the needs of all His devotees.

820. sarvato-mukhah - a) He Who can be approached from many paths. b) He Who has faces on all sides.

Sloka 88

  

sulabhah su-vratah siddhah Satru-jit Satru-tapanah |
nyag-rodhodumbaro'Svatthah canurandhra-nishudanah ||

821. su-labhah - a) He Who can be easily attained. b) He Who makes it possible to attain sukham (sukham labhata).

822. su-vratah - a) He Who has taken a good, strong vow. b) He Who accepts only the pure food that is offered with sincerity by His selfless devotees. c) He Who controlled what He consumed appropriately in His nara-narayana incarnation. d) He Who controls everything in this universe and keeps them in order. e) He Who observed all the vrata-s rigorously in His Krishna incarnation, even though He was the Supreme Soul.

823. siddhah - a) He Whose protection is ever available without any special effort on the part of His devotees. b) He Who is the siddhopaya - the already existing means - for attaining moksham. c) He Who is fully accomplished, without dependence on anyone or anything else. d) He Who makes His devotees accomplished - in their tapas and other efforts to attain Him. e) He Who gave us the Sastras, or He Who bestows auspiciousness on us. f) The final conclusion - the Ultimate Truth - through all means of proof available to us. g) He Who accomplishes all His undertakings flawlessly to completion and perfection.

824. Satru-jit-satru-tapanah - He Who occupies the bodies of Satru- jits to torment His devotees' enemies.

825. nyag-rodhod - He Who has the Supreme Abode with Lakshmi and everything that is magnificent, but Who is at the command of the devotees who approach Him with folded hands. a) He Who has the most auspicious SrI vaikuntham as His own. b) He Who is `above the sky', i.e., superior to all.
826. umbarah -  c) He Who nourishes the world in the form of food etc. d) One Who has the best of sounds - the veda-s, as His form. e) He Who is praised by the highest and best of sounds - bhajans, nama-sankirtanas etc. f) He Who has the superior pitambaram as His garment (ud- ambarah).

827. asvattah - a) He Who has established the impermanent gods for performing various functions. b) He Who is described as the root of an eternal asvattha tree of samsara etc. c) He Who eternally rules over the universe that is never the same, and keeps constantly changing. d) He Who pervades the entire universe in the form of the five great elements.

828. canurandhra-nishudanah - a) He Who slew the wrestler by name canura. b) He Who causes utmost misery to those who cause hardship to the good people of sattvik disposition. c) He Who slew canura, duryodhana and the like.

  

Sloka 89

  

sahasrarcih sapta-jihvah saptaidhah sapta-vahanah |
a-murtir_anagho'cintyo bhaya-krt bhaya-nasanah ||

829. sahasrarcih - a) The Thousand-rayed, Who illumines everything in this Universe. b) He Whose tirumeni radiates with kanti that resembles infinite number or rays emanating from Him.

830. sapta-jihvah - The seven-tongued.

831. saptaidhah - One Who is kindled in the form of fire by the seven kinds of offerings.

832. sapta-vahanah - a) He Who has seven vehicles in the form of the seven Vedic mantra-s represented by the seven horses of the Sun. b) He Who supports the Universe in the form of the seven Sun-s. c) He Who supports the three worlds through the seven vayu-mandala-s or regions of air. d) He Who has a vehicle with its horse named sapta. e) He Who protects the beings through facilities that has provided in units of seven - seven types of fluids in our system, seven holes in our face as sense organs, the seven objects of these sense-organs, etc. f) He Who conducts the seven worlds with prosperity.

833. a-murtih - a) He Who does not have a body that is the effect of karma similar to ours. b) He Who is signified by the letter `a' in pranavam.

834. an-aghah - a) The Sinless. b) He Who is opposed to sin. c) He Who is of blemishless character. d) He Who does not suffer sorrow.

835. a-cintyah - a) He Who is incomparable to anything known. b) He Whose power cannot be imagined. c) He Who cannot be completely comprehended in our minds.

836. bhya-krt - He Who causes fear.

837. bhaya-nasanah - He Who destroys fear.

Sloka 90

  

anur_brhat_krsas_sthulo guna-bhrn_nir-guno mahan |
adhrtah sva-dhrtah svasyah prag-vamso vamsa-vardhanah || 90 

838. anuh - a) He Who has the power of being smaller than anything small that is known to us. b) He Who is the cause of the sound that permeates everywhere and is in everything (ana - Sabde). c) He Who is in the form of the Vedas, or He Who reveals the Vedas, the Sastras, etc. (ana - sabde).

839. brhat - The Great.  

840. krsah - a) He Who is lighter than the light. b) He Who is thinner than anything thin. c) He Who reduces or eliminates the difficulties to His devotees. d) He Who pares down the form for the jiva-s to make it possible for them to live in comfort. e) He Who makes `light work' of the asura-s (i.e., He Who destroys the asura-s). 

841. sthulah - a) He Who is immense. b) He Who grows or enhances enormously the wealth of His devotees.

842. guna-bhrt - a) The Supporter of all that are subject to Him. b) He Who supports the three guNa-s of sattva, rajas, and tamas. c) He Who bears (has) infinite kalyana guna-s.

843. nir-gunah - He Who is bereft of the qualities (common to others).

844. mahan -  a) He Who is supreme in everything. b) He Who is Great beyond comprehension. c) He Who is worthy of worship, and worshiped by the likes of Indra.

845. a-dhrtah - a) The Unconstrained. b) The Unsustained. 

846. sva-dhrtah - He Who is Self-sustained and superior over the baddha-s who may have some of the same ashTa aiSvarya-s that we saw above, through meditation , prayer, etc.

847. svasyah - He Who has a glorious status and is superior over the mukta-s, who have a status equivalent to Him in many respects, but who were once clouded by nescience.

848. prag-vamsah - He Who is the cause of the eternally free souls and is superior over the nitya-s, the eternal souls in Sri Vaikuntham, since He is their origin, source and eternal support.

849. vamsa-vardhanah - He Who keeps His progeny growing, bhagavan, the One who fosters and grows all the three categories of jIva-s.

Lord Chennakeshava, Mannur (near Malkheda), Karnataka.

803	suvarna-binduh	With limbs radiant like gold
804	akshobhyah	One who is ever unruffled
805	sarva-vaageeshvareshvarah	Lord of the Lord of speech
806	mahaahradah	One who is like a great refreshing swimming pool
807	mahaagartah	The great chasm
808	mahaabhootah	The great being
809	mahaanidhih	The great abode
810	kumudah	One who gladdens the earth
811	kundarah	The one who lifted the earth
812	kundah	One who is as attractive as Kunda flowers
813	parjanyah	He who is similar to rain-bearing clouds
814	paavanah	One who ever purifies
815	anilah	One who never slips
816	amritaashah	One whose desires are never fruitless
817	amritavapuh	He whose form is immortal
818	sarvajna	Omniscient
819	sarvato-mukhah	One who has His face turned everywhere
820	sulabhah	One who is readily available
821	suvratah	One who has taken the most auspicious forms
822	siddhah	One who is perfection
823	shatrujit	One who is ever victorious over His hosts of enemies
824	shatrutaapanah	The scorcher of enemies
825	nyagrodhah	The one who veils Himself with Maya
826	udumbarah	Nourishment of all living creatures
827	ashvattas	Tree of life
828	chaanooraandhra-nishoodanah	The slayer of Canura
829	sahasraarchih	He who has thousands of rays
830	saptajihvah	He who expresses himself as the seven tongues of fire (Types of agni)
831	saptaidhaah	The seven effulgences in the flames
832	saptavaahanah	One who has a vehicle of seven horses (sun)
833	amoortih	Formless
834	anaghah	Sinless
835	acintyo	Inconceivable
836	bhayakrit	Giver of fear
837	bhayanaashanah	Destroyer of fear
838	anuh	The subtlest
839	brihat	The greatest
840	krishah	Delicate, lean
841	sthoolah	One who is the fattest
842	gunabhrit	One who supports
843	nirgunah	Without any properties
844	mahaan	The mighty
845	adhritah	Without support
846	svadhritah	Self-supported
847	svaasyah	One who has an effulgent face
848	praagvamshah	One who has the most ancient ancestry
849	vamshavardhanah	He who multiplies His family of descendents

About the place

The neglect of Mannur, a tiny village on the banks of the Bheema in Afzalpur taluk, which was known as Manipuri, is an example of how the people of the State have been deprived of an opportunity to know its history. During the reign of Vikramaditya of the Kalyan Chalukya Dynasty, Mannur was a famous cultural and commercial centre. It was also an important educational centre with many scholars making Mannur as their home in the pursuit of knowledge and excellence in the field of literature.

Mannur had an "Agrahara" where Vyakarna, Astrology, Tarka, Nyaya, Vedanta, and other subjects were taught. Though several inscriptions have been unearthed in the village, no effort has been made to study them. The village is an important Madhwa centre, and people visit the Brindavan of Madhava Theertha, Vedesh Theertha and Tangalodeyaru at Uttaradi Math on the banks of the Bheema every year during the Aradhana festival. Mannur is also famous for its Chennakeshava Temple, which has a history of 1,000 years. The temple, which has many damaged sculptures, is in a dilapidated condition. An idol of Chennakeshava, which was installed during the reign of Vikramadiya, is a masterpiece.

 Mannur is on the banks of river Bheema in Afzalpur taluk of Gulbarga district. Mannur today is a small village 65 kms from Gulbarga and there are buses to this place from Afzalpur  (29 kms) and Gulbarga . Bangalore is almost 510 kms away.The Paduke of mahwa theertha, he wore are still there in Mannur. Apart from his brindavana, Mannur is home to brindavanas of several other Madhwa saints such as Vedesha Theertha. Two Madhwa saints-Yadavaryaru and Govinda Odeyaru spent time here.