Sri Satyasandha's commentary on Sri Vishnu Sahasra Naama

Posted By Shikaripura Harihareswara (HOYSALA@worldnet.att.net)
19 Feb 1997 05:14:14 GMT

:: Sri Vishnu Sahasra Nama & its Commentaries ::
1. Here is a list of commentaries given by Sri R Anantha Krishna Shastry in his introduction to the translation of Sri Vishnu Sa=
hasra Nama (hereafter abbreviated in this article as 'VSN') (along with Shankara Bhashya) published by the Adyar Library & Research =
Center, 1980 Edn, pp. xx-xxi).
" According to Aufrecht's Catalogue Catalogorum, the last part of which appeared in 1903, the following commentaries on the S=
ahasranama are known:
1 Brihat Bhashya
2 By Sri Vishnu Vallabha
3 By Sri Ananda Tirtha
4 By Sri Krishnananda
5 By Sri Gangadhara Yatindra
6 By Sri Parashara Bhatta or Sri Sriranga Bhatta
7 By Sri Mahadeva Vedantin
8 By Sri Ranganatha Acharya
9 By Sri Ramananda Tirtha
10 By Sri Ramanuja
11 By Sri Vidyaranya Tirtha
12 By Sri Brahmananda Bharati
13 By Sri Shankara Acharya
14 By Sri Sudarshana Bhatta
15 By Sri Govinda Bhatta

Since then, some more have been discovered."

Among the above, some may be extant, and some may not be!

2. In another reference, ( "Sriman Mahabharata" Vol. 29, page 4887, published by Bharata Darshana Prakashana, Bangalore) I read =
the following in Kannada:
"There are thirteen shlokas in the form of Upodghata ( 'preface') for the VSN. For the VSN and for those shlokas as well, several Ac=
haryas of the past have written commentaries. Among them, Acharya Sri Shankara of Advaita sampradaya and Sri Parashara Bhatta, the c=
elebrated disciple of Acharya Sri Ramanuja of Vishishta-advaita samradaya have written commentaries for both the VSN and the Upodgha=
ta shlokas. However, Sri Satyasandha yatiraja mahaswami, belonging to the Dvaita sampradaya of Acharya Sri Ananda Tirtha, has writte=
n commentary on the VSN only."
In the pages to follow, the commentary by Sri Satyasandha on the VSN (in lucid Kannada translation) and the quotes in Sanskrit he h=
as selected from other scriptural sources like Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas etc. to elucidate his commentary - are being given in the =
same volume, pages 4918 to 5409.
There is a Phala-shruti at the end of the VSN, upon which Sri Satyasandha has not commented (Ref. page # 5409, footnote).

3. In the books 'Mahabharata-tatparya-nirnaya', 'Bhagavata-tatparya-nirnaya', 'Vishnu -tattva-nirnaya' 'Gita-bhashya', 'Gita-tatp=
arya' and 'Krishna-amrita-maharnava' - all authored by Acharya Sri Ananda Tirtha, his disciple Sri Satyasandha might have found all =
that is needed to comprehend the mind of his Guru in interpreting the VSN!

- S.K. Harihareswara
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