Vishnu Sahasranama Dhyana Shloka

[Girish Sharma]

In the last pada of a shloka, I don't understand punIyAdari in

AnandI naH punIyAdari-nalina-gadA-ZaGkha-pANir-mukundaH.

The rest I believe is "the blissful Mukunda Who holds a conch shell, a
mace, and a lotus."

Could it be punIyAt ari? Perhaps some conjugation of pU that I don't
understand, followed by ari (enemy)? If so, how can ari fit with the
following samAsa?

Thank you.

[Hnbhat B.R.]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Girish Sharma <girish...@earthlink.net> wrote:

In the last pada of a shloka, I don't understand punIyAdari in

 AnandI naH punIyAdari-nalina-gadA-ZaGkha-pANir-mukundaH.

It is punIyAd ari-nalina-gadA-ZaGkha-pANir mukundaH

 

 AnandI

ri-nalina-gadA-ZaGkha-pANir mukundaH = 

  AnandI =  "the blissful

mukundaH = Mukunda,

ari-nalina-gadA-ZaGkha-pANir = Who holds a disc. a lotus,  a mace, and a conch shell in his hands,."

punIyAd naH = let purify us.

I have just corrected your interpretation close to the text. You missed some point and I made it out. punIyAd is benedictory mood, पूञ् पवने to purify.

 

and ari is disc, or cakra. having अर-s. the word is अरिन् in the neuter.

GarPur, 1, 45, 5.1

namo gadāriśaṅkhābjayukta ca / 

GarPur, 1, 45, 8.1

sāriśaṅkhagadābjāya vai namaḥ / 

GarPur, 1, 45, 9.1

suśaṅkhasugadābjāridhṛte / 

GarPur, 1, 45, 9.2

namo gadāśaṅkhābjārīvidhāriṇe // 

GarPur, 1, 45, 10.2

namo gadāśaṅkhāripadmine // 

GarPur, 1, 45, 11.1

padmagadāśaṅkhāridhāriṇe / 

GarPur, 1, 45, 11.2

padmāriśaṅkhagadine namo ' // 

GarPur, 1, 45, 13.2

sagadābjāriśaṅkhāya namaḥ // 

All in the same expression for Vishnu. It is not uncommon.

-- 

Dr. Hari Narayana Bhat B.R. M.A., Ph.D.,
Research Scholar,

Ecole française d'Extrême-OrientCentre de Pondichéry

16 & 19, Rue Dumas

Pondichéry - 605 001

[murthy]

Is this possible?

अरिनलिनगदाशंखपाणिः is one word.

अरिः नलिनमिव यस्याः सा अरिनलिना =enemy is just as destroyable as a lotus

अरिनलिना च असौ गदा च अरिनलिनगदा

Regards

Murthy

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[dhaval patel]

arin  = discus (chakra) also...

That might solve the problem...

Shankha, chakra, gadA, padma - 4 ornaments of Lord Vishnu.

Dr. Dhaval Patel

www.sanskritworld.in

[Girish Sharma]

Thank you to all the responders. arin = discus certainly clears up the question.

I also have a confusion about another aspect of the shloka. With the preceding pada it is:

Zubhrair-abhrair-adabhrair-upari viracitair-muktapIyUSavarSaiH

AnandI naH punIyAd-ari-nalina-gadA-ZaGkha-pANir-mukundaH

Common translations of the shloka connect AnandI with the preceding pada, something like:

Mukunka enjoys the abundant shower of nectar released from a bright cloud above.

Due to all the instrumental cases in the preceding pada, is it not possibly:

May Mukunda purify us by an abundant shower of nectar...?