97.  Nidhi implies the largest number that can be named in Arithmetical notation.  Hence, it implies, as the commentator correctly explains, the possessor of inexhaustible felicity and gladness.

98.  Sahasraksha is either Indra or possessor of innumerable eyes in consequence of Mahadeva’s being identical with the universe.  Visalaksha is one whose eyes are of vast power, because the Past and the Future are seen by them even as the Present.  Soma implies either the Moon or the juice of the Soma i.e. the libations poured in the sacrificial fire.  All righteous persons, again, become luminaries in the firmament.  It is Mahadeva that makes them so i.e., he is the giver of glorious forms to those that deserve them.

99.  Many of these names require comments to be intelligible.  Ketu is no plant but Hindu astronomers name the descending node of the Moon by that name.  Hence Rahu is the ascending node of the Moon.  Graha, is that which seizes; Grahapati is Mangala, so called for its malevolence, Varah is Vrihaspati or Jupiter, who is the counterself of Sukra or Venus.  In Hindu mythology, Sukra is a male person, the preceptor of the Daityas and Asuras.  Atri is Vudha or Mercury, represented as the sons of Atri.  Atryahnamaskarta is Durvasas who was the son of Atri’s wife, got by the lady through a boon of Mahadeva.  Daksha’s Sacrifice sought to fly away from Siva, but the latter pursued it and shot his arrow at it for destroying it downright.

100.  Suvarna-retas is explained by the commentator as follows:  At first he created water and then cast his seed into it.  That seed became a golden egg.  It may also mean that Mahadeva is Agni or the deity of fire, for gold represents the seed of Agni.

101.  The sense is this:  Jiva carries that seed of acts, i.e., Ignorance and Desire, with him.  In consequence of this seed, Jiva travels from one world into another ceaselessly.  This seed, therefore, is the conveyance or the means of locomotion of Jiva.  Mahadeva is Jiva.  The soul is called the rider, and the body is the car that bears the Soul on it.

102.  Ganapati is Ganesa, the eldest son of Mahadeva.  The Ganas are mighty beings that wait upon Mahadeva.  This make up the first hundred names.  The commentator takes Avala and Gana together.

103.  Digvasas means nude.  The Puranas say that for stupefying the wives of certain ascetics, Mahadeva became nude on one occasion.  The real meaning, however, is that he is capable of covering and does actually cover even infinite space.  In the sense of nude, the word means one that has empty space for his cover or vestments.

104.  The meaning is that with thee Knowledge is penance instead of actual physical austerities being so.  This is only another way of saying that thou hast Jnanamayam Tapah.

105.  Sataghni a killer of hundred; Wilson thinks it was a kind of rocket.

106.  Harikesa means one having the senses for one’s rays, i.e., one who displays all objects before the soul through the doors of the senses.  The meaning is that Mahadeva is he through whose puissance the mind succeeds in acquiring knowledge through the senses.