The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

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VISHNU.

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 Sankhya. 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 Krzshzza. 97. Thou art the lotus-eyed god.
98. Thou art Narayazza (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,
1 seq.
85, 86. See Introduction.
101. Nand. observes that the divers epithets which are given to
Vishmi in this chapter are precisely equal in number to the ninety-
six chapters, of which the law part of the Vishmi-sutra 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 Sutra 101 to contain an epithet of Vishmi, 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 Sutra 6 contains no epithet at all.