उपनिषद् · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.16
॥
देवनागरी
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् यश्च विष्णुः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān yaśca viṣṇuḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
ओं यः ह वैoṃ yaḥ ha vaiOṁ. He who; Oṁ. The very one who
नृसिंहः देवः सः भगवान्nṛsiṃhaḥ devaḥ saḥ bhagavānis the God Nṛsiṃha — he is the Lord; the god Nṛsiṃha is — he is Bhagavān
यः च विष्णुःyaḥ ca viṣṇuḥand who is Viṣṇu; and the one who is Viṣṇu
भूर्भुवः स्वःbhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
अनुवाद
Oṁ. He who is the God Nṛsiṃha — He is the Lord, and He is Viṣṇu. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The second name is Viṣṇu, and in a Vaiṣṇava book it stands second, not first.
This is telling. The order of the litany is the same as in the Atharvaśiras: first Brahmā, then Viṣṇu, then Maheśvara. The book does not rearrange for its own sake.
Nor is there any need to. The subject of all thirty-two names is one — Nṛsiṃha; and Nṛsiṃha is Viṣṇu come out of the pillar.
That is, here the book calls its Lord by his own name, but as one of the thirty-two.
In this is the whole force of such a list. It neither exalts the named nor abases him: it shows that the names are many and the Named is one.
The same measure we noted in reading the fifth mantra of the litany of the Rāma-tāpanī, where Rāma was called “Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara”.