निदिध्यासन Nididhyāsana · AbsorbStep 4 of /4

1. Where is the Viṣṇu Sahasranāma found?

   The ṚgvedaThe RāmāyaṇaThe Anuśāsana Parva of the MahābhārataThe Bhagavad Gītā

2. Where is Bhīṣma when he recites the names?

   On his throne in HastināpuraOn a bed of arrows on the battlefieldIn a forest hermitageAt the court of Dhṛtarāṣṭra

3. Who is standing beside Bhīṣma and Yudhiṣṭhira as the names are recited?

   VyāsaKṛṣṇaArjuna aloneNobody

4. In what order does Bhīṣma answer Yudhiṣṭhira's six questions, according to Śaṅkara?

   In the order they were askedIn reverse orderHe answers only the firstHe answers them all at once in one verse

5. What does Bhīṣma mean when he calls the names gauṇa?

   They are secretThey come from the Lord's qualitiesThey are in an old dialectThey are names of cows

6. Why, according to Śaṅkara, is praising these names the highest dharma?

   It is the most difficult practiceOnly priests may do itIt harms no one and needs no money, helper, special place or timeIt was the oldest ritual

7. What does the name Viṣṇu mean, as Śaṅkara explains it?

   The one who sleepsThe one who pervades and enters everythingThe dark oneThe one who rides an eagle

8. What happens when a name repeats in the hymn?

   Śaṅkara skips itIt is a copying mistakeŚaṅkara finds a new meaning for itIt is chanted twice as loud

9. In the phalaśruti, what does the Lord tell Arjuna?

   That the names must be recited daily without failThat he is praised even by a single verseThat only the learned may recite themThat the names should be kept secret

10. What does Śiva tell Pārvatī is equal to the thousand names?

    The syllable OmThe name RāmaThe Gāyatrī mantraSilence