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"Everywhere are Its hands and feet; Its eyes, heads, and mouths are
everywhere; Its ears are on all sides; and It exists encompassing all things."
SrI v.v. rAmAnujan gives support from tiruvAimozhi:
tOLgaL AyirattAi! muDigaL AyirattAi! tuNai malark kaNgaL AyirattAi!
tALgaL AyirattAi! pErgaL AyirattAi! tamiayanEn peria appanE!
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(tiruvAi.8.1.10)
where nammAzhvAr refers to Him as "Oh Lord with a thousand shoulders,
faces, eyes, feet, names", etc.
SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri gives reference to the SvetASvtara Upanishad
wherein Brahman is described as "sarvAnana SirogrIvah sarva bhUta
guhASayah" - (3.11) - "He Who has many faces, heads and necks, and resides
in the hearts of all the beings".
b) SrI satyadevo vAsishThagives a second interpretation, in which he takes
Ananam to mean "the means for sustaining life", and gives the meaning to the
nAma as "He Who has provided innumerable ways (such as nose, mouth, face,
etc.), through which life is sustained for the different creatures" - jIvana
upAyAnAm ca bAhuvidyam, tathA cayadyad jIvane Silpa vaiSishTyam tattat
tasyaiva bhagavata ityAkhyAtum SatAnananAmnA bhagavAn vishNuh stUyate.
c) Yet another interpretation provided by SrI vAsishTha is based on the
pANinisUtra 3.1.26 - hetumati ca - which states that the affix Nic is employed
after a root when the operation of a causer is to be expressed. Thus, he
interprets the term "Ananah" as "Anayati iti Ananah" - "One Who causes, or
makes it possible to live". Ananam is here interpreted as referring to
bhagavAn's action in creating the different life-forms which have different
ways of sustaining life. Ananah is thus given the meaning "jIvan dAtA - the
life-giver". The meaning given here is thus "He Who has created various lifeforms"
- catur-vidha SrshTi udvhAvinah anantAn jIvAn tat-tat jIvanaih
upakaraNaih Anayati = jIvayatiiti SatAnanah.
d) SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri explains the nAma in terms of bhagavAn being