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XCVIII, 79.
79. “Thou art the great boar.
80. "Thou art the tormentor (of the Asuras, or of the righteous and the unrighteous).
81. "Thou art eternal.
82. “Thou art infinite. 83. Thou art Purusha. 84. Thou art the great (unbounded) Purusha. 85. Thou art (the sage) Kapila. 86. Thou art the teacher of the Sânkhya. 87. Thy powers are everywhere. 88. Thou art virtue. 89. Thou art the giver of virtue. 90. Thy body is virtue (law). 91. Thou art the giver of both virtue and wealth. 92. Desires are gratified by thee. 93. Thou art Vishnu. 94. Thou art triumphant everywhere. 95. Thou art capable of bearing (the extremities of heat and cold and any others). 96. Thou art Krishna. 97. Thou art the lotus-eyed god. 98. Thou art Nârâyana (the son of Nara). 99. Thou art the final aim. 100. Thou art the resort of all beings. 101. Adoration, adoration (be to thee)!
102. The goddess of the earth, after her desire had been gratified, and after she had thus praised
a fish, is said to have dragged the ship of Manu behind him. (Nand.)
79. This epithet refers to Vishnu's boar-incarnation. See I, I seq. 85, 86. See Introduction.
101. Nand. observes that the divers epithets which are given to Vishnu in this chapter are precisely equal in number to the ninetysix chapters, of which the law part of the Vishnu-sūtra is composed. This coincidence is curious enough, though it is not quite perfect. For it is by a highly artificial interpretation only that Nand. makes out Sūtra 101 to contain an epithet of Vishnu, viz. by interpreting the two separate words namo nama as a compound, meaning 'he who is worshipped by the worshipful, i.e. by Brahman and the other gods;' and Sūtra 6 contains no epithet at all.
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