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- Om
- shukla ambara dharaM vishhNuM shashi varNaM chatur bhujam |
- white cloth wearing Vishnu (who is) moon (the) color of (with) four hands
- prasanna vadanaM dhyaayet sarva vighnopa. shaantaye || (1)
- (with) placid expression on face We meditate on you all (my) obstructions (please) eradicate
- vyaasaM vasishhTha naptaaraM shakteH pautram akalmashham |
- paraasharaatmajaM vande shukataataM taponidhim || (3)
- vyAsa is the great grandson of Vasistha and the grandson of Sakti, son of ParAsara, and the father of Suka. He is untainted by defects (akaimasa) of any kind and is a mine of austerities (tapO nidhi) I offer my obeisance to Him.
- vyaasaaya vishhNu-roopaaya vyaasa roopaaya vishhNave |
- namo vai brahma nidhaye vaasishhThaaya namo namaH || (4)
- Salutations, again and again, to VyAsa, a visible aspect of Lord Vishnu and to Lord Vishnu who, in
- turn, is also a visible aspect of VyAsa, the sage descended from Vasistha and a veritable treasure of vedic knowledge of Brahman.
- avikaaraaya shuddhaaya nityaaya paramaatmane |
- sadaika roopa roopaaya vishhNave sarva jishhNave || (5)
- Salutation to Lord Vishnu who is immutable (unchangeable, not subject to any variation), who is inherently pure and eternal, the Supreme soul who has a consistent undiversified form in all times and ages and is the conqueror of one and all.
- yasya smaraNa maatreNa janmasaM saara bandhanaat |
- vimuchyate namastasmai vishhNave prabhavishhNave || (6)
- My salutation to that all powerful deity, Visnu the mere contemplation of whose name frees all personsfrom the bonds of samsara, the terrific cycle of birth and death.
- || oM namo vishhNave prabhavishhNave ||
- Salutation to that all powerful Visnu denoted by Om
- shrii vaishampaayana uvaacha -
- Sri Vaisampayana said:
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- [ps: the complete form of the last verse is:
- shrii vaishampaayana uvaacha -
- shrutvaa dharmaan asheshheNa paavanaani cha sarvashaH |
- yudhishhThiraH shaantanavaM punarevaa-bhyabhaashhata || (1)
- Sri Vaisampayana said: Having heard all the dharmas, in their entirety, and all other purificatory acts;
- Yudhishthira addressed again Santanu's son (Bhisma)
- and the verse tagged (2) which does not exist in The Prayer is like this:
- yasya dvirada vaktrAdyAh pArisadyAh parassatam |
- vighnam nighnanti satatam visvaksEnam tamAsrayE || (2)
- One should resort to Visvaksena, whose assemblage of gajAnan and other nitya sUris ever ward off
- the innumerable obstacles. ]
- these are the introductory verses of the strotra known as "1000 Names Of Vishnu"
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