The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Viṣṇusahasranāmastotram

Verse 441

देवव्रतसमाख्यातैः त्रिभिः सामभिः सामगैः स्तुत इति त्रिसामा ।साम गायतीति सामगः, 'वेदानां सामवेदोऽस्मि' इति भगवद्वचनात् ।सामवेदः साम ।सर्वदुःखोपशमलक्षणं परमानन्दरूपं निर्वाणम् ।संसाररोगस्यौषधं भेषजम् ।संसाररोगनिर्मोक्षकारिणीं परां विद्यामुपदिदेश गीतास्विति भिषक्, 'भिषक्तमं त्वा भिषजां शृणोमि' इति श्रुतेः ।मोक्षार्थं चतुर्थमाश्रमं कृतवानिति संन्यासकृत् ।संन्यासिनां प्राधान्येन ज्ञानसाधनं शममाचष्ट इति शमः, 'यतीनां प्रशमो धर्मो नियमो वनवासिनाम् ।दानमेव गृहस्थानां शुश्रूषा ब्रह्मचारिणाम्' इति स्मृतेः ।'तत्करोति तदाचष्टे' इति णिचि पचाद्यचि कृते रूपं शम इति ।सर्वभूतानां श

In plain words

He is called Trisāman because he is praised through three sāmans by chanters who follow sacred vows. He is the Sāmaga because he sings the sāman, as Krishna declares in the Gita, 'Among the Vedas I am the Sama Veda.' The Sama Veda itself is the sāman. Liberation is the vanishing of all sorrow and the embodiment of supreme joy. He is Bheṣaja, the healing remedy for the disease of worldly existence. He is Bhiṣak, the physician, because he imparted that supreme knowledge in the Gita which frees one from the disease of saṃsāra, echoing the Vedic verse, 'I hear thee as the greatest of healers.' He is Saṃnyāsakṛt, one who instituted the fourth stage of life for the attainment of liberation. He is Śama, because he teaches mental peace as the primary instrument of wisdom for those who renounce, as scripture ordains 'Peace is the duty of ascetics...' Thus the noun is grammatically derived through standard rules.

Close to the Sanskrit

Described as praised by three sāmans through three sāma-singers known by sacred vows, hence Trisāman. One who sings the sāman is a sāmaga, from the divine utterance 'Of the Vedas I am the Sama Veda.' The Sama Veda is sāman. Nirvāna is the cessation of all sorrow and has the form of supreme bliss. Bheṣaja is the medicine for the disease of saṃsāra. Bhiṣak, because he taught supreme knowledge which brings release from the disease of saṃsāra in the Gita, as the shruti says 'I hear thee as the best of physicians among physicians.' Saṃnyāsakṛt, because he performed the fourth ashrama for the sake of liberation. Śama, because he teaches mental tranquility principally as the means to knowledge for renunciates, as the smriti says 'Tranquility is the duty of ascetics, restraint for forest-dwellers...'. Śama is the form produced by applying the causal suffix and the ac suffix after pac etc., according to the rule 'It does that, it declares that.' Of all beings śa...