Dasa Avatars

[Sankaran Aniruddhan]

namaste,

> PS In case you dont like to accept Buddha, there is a much better
candidate
> for that avatar. It is Vyasa. You will find the following right in the
> beginning portion of the vishNu sahasranAma-----

> vyAsAya vishNu rUpAya vyAsa rUpAya vishNave

Isn't this just a dhyana shloka to be recited before the vishnu sahasranama?
Or is it there in the real mahabharata at the beginning of the vishnu
sahasranama as told by Bheeshma to Yudhishthira?

Aniruddhan

Sruti smRti purANAnAm Alayam karuNAlayam
namAmi bhagavatpAda Sam.karam lokaSam.karam