Anadi bhurbhuvo lakshmih suviro ruchirangadah
Janano janajanmadir bhimo bhima-parakramah ..101
Anandi: One who has no beginning because He is the ultimate cause of all.
Bhurbhuvo: ‘Bhu’ means support. One who is the support (Bhu) of even the earth, which is known to support all things.
Lakshmih: He who is the bestower of all that is auspicious to the earth besides being its supporter.
Suviro: One who has many brilliant ways of manifestation.
Ruchirangadah: One who has very attractive armlets.
Janano: One who gives brith to living beings.
Jana-janmadir: One who is the root cause of the origin of Jivas that come to have embodiment.
Bhimo: One who is the cause of fear.
Bhima-parakramah: One whose power and courage in His incarnations were a cause of fear for the Asuras.
Adharanilayo dhata pushpahasah prajagarah
Urdhvagah sat-pathacharah pranadah pranavah panah ..102
Adharanilayo: One who is the support of even all the basic supporting factors like the five elements – Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.
Adhata: One who is one’s own support and therefore does not require another support.
Pushpahasah: One whose manifestation as the universe resembles the Hasa or blooming of buds into flowers.
Prajagarah: One who is particularly awake, because He is eternal Awareness.
Urdhvagah: One who is above everything.
Sat-pathacharah: One who follows the conduct of the good.
Pranadah: One who givesback life to dead ones as in the case of Parikshit.
Pranavah: Pranava (Om) the manifesting sound symbol of Brahman. As He is inseparably related with Pranava, He is called Pranava.
Panah: It comes from the root ‘Prana’ meaning transaction. So one who bestows the fruits of Karma on all according to their Karma.
Prmanam prananilayah pranabhrut pranajivanah
Tatvam tatvavidekatma janma-mrutyu-jaratigah ..103
Pramanam: One who is self-certifying, as He is Pure Consciousness.
Prananilayah: The home or dissolving ground of the Pranas.
Pranabhrut: One who strengthens the Pranas as food (Anna).
Pranajivanah: He who keeps alive human beings with Vayus (airs) known as Prana, Apana etc.,
Tatvam: Means Brahman, just as words like Amruta, Satya, Paramartha etc.
Tatvavid: One who knowns His own true nature.
Ekatma: One who is the sole being and the spirit (Atma) in all.
Janma-mrutyu-jaratigah: One who subsists without being subject to the six kinds of transformations – being born, existing, temporarily, growing, transforming, decaying and dying.
Bhurbhuvah svastarus-tarah savita prapitamahah
Yagyo yagya-patir-yajva yagyango yagya-vahanah ..104
Bhur-bhuvah-svastarus: The three Vyahrutis Bhuh, Bhuvah, Svah are said to be the essence of the Veda.
Tarah: One who helps Jivas to go across the ocean of Samsara.
Savita: He who generates all the worlds.
Prapitamahah: One who is the father of Brahma and therefore the grandfather of all.
Yagyo: One who is of the form of Yagya.
Yagya-patir: One who is the protector and the master of the Yagyas.
Yajva: One who manifests as the performer of a Yagya.
Yagyango: All the parts of His body as the incarnate Cosmic Boar are identified with the parts of a yagya.
Yagya-vahanah: One who supports the Yagya which yield various fruits.
Yagyabhrud yagyakrud yagyi yagyabhrug yagyasadhanah
Yagyanantakrud yagyaguhyam annam annada eva cha ..105
Yagyabhrud: He is so called, because He is the protector and supporter of all yagyas.
Yagyakrud: One who performs Yagya at the beginnig and end of the world.
Yagyi: One who is the Principal.
Yagyabhrug: One who is the enjoyer of Yagya or Protector of Yagya.
Yagyasadhanah: One to whom the Yagya is the approach.
Yagyanantakrud: One who is the end or the furits of yagya.
Yagyaguhyam: The gyana yagya or the sacrifice of knowledge, which is the esoteric (Guhyam) of all the yagyams.
Annam: That which is eaten by living beings. Or He who eats all beings.
Annada eva cha: One who is the eater of the whole world as food. The word Eva is added to show that He is also Anna, the food eaten.
Atmayonih svayamjato vaikhanah samagayanah
Devaki-nandanah srashtha kshitishah papanashanah ..106
Atmayonih: One who is the source of all; that is, there is no material cause other than Himself for the universe.
Svayam-jato: He is also the instrumental cause.
Vaikhanah: One who excavated the earth, taking a unique form.
Samagayanah: One who recites the Sama chants.
Devakidddd-nandanah: The Son of Devaki in the incarnation as Krishna.
Srashtha: The creator of all the worlds.
Kshitishah: A master of the world. Here it denotes Rama.
Papanashanah: He who destroys the sins of those who adore Him, meditate upon Him, remember and sing hymns of praise on Him.
Shankhabrun -nandaki chakri sharangadhnva gadadharah
Rathanga panirakshobhyah sarva-praharanayudhah ..107
Shankhabrun: One who sports the conch known as Panchajanya, which stands for Tamasahamkara, of which the five elements are born.
Nandaki: One who has in His hand the sword known as Nandaka, which stands for Vidya (spiritual illumination).
Chakri: One who sports the discus known as Sudarshana, which stands for the Rajasahamkara, out of which the Indriyas have come.
Gadadharah: One who has the mace known as the Kaumodaki, which stands for the category of Buddhi.
Rathangapani: One in whose hand is a wheel (Chakra).
Rakshobhyah: One who cannot be upset by anything, because He controls all the above-mentioned weapons.
Sarva-praharana-yudhah: There is no rule that the Lord has got only the above-mentioned weapons. All things, which can be used for contacting or striking, are His weapons.
Vanamali gadi sharangi shankhi chakri cha nandaki
Shriman narayano vishnur-vasudevo-abhirakshatu ..108
