[Advaita-l] Information on Vishnu Sahasranamam

[Mahadevan Babu]

Hari Om,
I believe Sri Parasara Bhattar (Shishya of Sri Ramanuja) commented on  
VishnuSahasranamam.
 From the (concised Vishnu Sahasranam Bhashyam book by Anna -  
Ramakrishna Matt), the MadhvAcharya's PAtam is very close to Shri  
Shankaracharya's PAtam except the following few differences:
Shankra PAtam						MadhvAcharya PAtam
naarasimha vapuh:					narasimha vapuh:
Yagya ijya:							Yagya eejya:
kruthaashee:							dhruthaashee:
amruthaasha:						amruthaamsha:
savithaa								sabithaa
BajanthiyE pushkaraaksham			Bajanthi puNkareekaksham


As far the AnushtuB chandas, the following explanation may be handy  
after splitting the padams.

shlOkE shashTam guru gyEyam sarvathra laGhupanchamam  |

dvishchatu:  pAdayOrhasvam  saptamam  deerGamanyayO:  ||

There are several varieties of this meter, but that which is most in  
use has eight syllables in each quarter, but of variable quantity.
Thus the fifth syllable of each quarter should be short, the sixth  
long and the seventh alternately long and short.

Above reference from: Vaman Shivram Apte's book.

SRI GURUBYO NAMAHA !!!

Mahadevan Babu					






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On 26/08/2009, at 7:10 PM, sivasenani at yahoo.com wrote:

> I did not know that Sri Ramanujacharya and Sri Madhvacharya also  
> commented on the Vishnusahasranama. Any pointers?
>
> Regarding making anushTup as chandas, this happens when the chandas  
> of the 'mantra' in question is not one but is a mixture.
>
> Senani
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "sriram" <srirudra at vsnl.com>
>
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:10:04
> To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta<advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org 
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> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Information on Vishnu Sahasranamam
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>
> Dear Members
> The Vishnu Sahasranamam is set on anushtup chandhas-that is after  
> each 8
> letters another set of eight letters will follow which will enable  
> us do the
> padhaschedam properly -this is my understanding.But differences do  
> exist in
> segregating the namas by Sri Sankara,Sri Ramanuja and Sri
> Madhwa.But they are all unanimous in the total number of namas as  
> thousand
> only.R.Krishnamoorthy.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "narayan iyer" <z1e1b1r1a at yahoo.com>
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta"
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Information on Vishnu Sahasranamam
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>
>>
>> Namaste,
>>
>> I would like any of the learned members to clarify the following:
>>
>> Before reciting Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam, we begin:
>>
>> " Sri Veda VyasO Bhagavan Rishi, Anushtub chanda: Sri Mahavishnu
>> Paramaathmaa Sriman NaarayaNo devata…."
>>
>> I understand the chandas metre to be of 32 letters. Which sloka has  
>> 32
>> letters in VS? Is it dhyana sloka or any other sloka/mantra in VS?
>> There are many slokas of different letter-counts. Do they also  
>> belong to
>> Anushtub chandas?
>>
>> I learnt on the net that anushtub chandas (32 letters) is used for
>> narration and thrishtub (44 letters) is used for praise/to express  
>> the
>> song of devotion etc. Is the information correct?
>>
>> Are all sahasranamams composed in Anushtub chandas?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any information
>>
>> With regards,
>>
>> narayan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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