Today my reading of the Vishnu Sahasranamam brought me to the word, कतिथः । I give the scan of Sri Adi Shankara's bhashya in Sanskrit (Kannada script) and its translation in English by Swami Tapasyananda of Ramakrishna Math.
I was born into a Melkote(+Tumkur) Vaishnava family, on Ananta Chaturdashi, in Bhargava gotra, and raised in front of a Narayana temple. No wonder I feel charged to think of Narayana=Vishnu and His avatars, leelas and prayers.
Sri Shankara's commentary says how Vishnu is the goal in Vedas, in our scriptures like Ramayana and Mahabharata and is the muktipradaata.
हरिः ॐ तत् सत्
