Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:448
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:889

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–21v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
.. idaṁ pustaka viṣṇur divyasahasranāmastotraprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 1v:

yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janma
saṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave pra
bhaviṣṇave ..
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣena
pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evā
bhyabhāṣata ..2..
Note:
MBh. 13.135.1
Explicit: f. 22r:

vāsanād vāsudevasya vasitaṁ
bhuvanatrayaṁ ..
sarvabhūtanivāso si vāsudeva namo stu te ..30
Note:
MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 1–2

yasya haste gadācakraṁ garuḍo yasya vāhanaṁ ..
śaṅkhaṁ karatale
yasya sa me viṣṇuḥ prasīdatu ..31..
Note:
MBh. 18.5.54*61, lines 7–8

bhāti sarveṣu vedeṣu ratiḥ
sarveṣu jaṁtuṣu ..
taraṇaṁ sarvalokānāṁ tasmād bhāratam ucyate ..32..
Note:
MBh. 1.1.53ab, Appendix I, no. 2, lines 3–4
Final rubric: f22r-f22v:
iti śrī mahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vayyāśakyāṁ śāṁti
parvaṇī dānadharme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭirasaṁvāde sahasranāma saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
.. idaṁ pustaka viṣṇusahasranāmastotraṁ samāptaṁ ..175..
Colophon:none
Note:The Viṣṇusahasranāman is included in the Anuśāsanaparvan in the critical edition of the Mahābhārata at MBh. 13.135.1–142, yet the text as an independent treatise typically appends a phalaśruti not included in the critical text and most of which is also absent from the critical apparatus. The last verse of the text of the critical edition corresponds to verse 122 found on f. 21r. This verse is followed by eight verses included in the critical apparatus as well as two not included. The final rubric of this manuscript situates the Viṣṇusahasranāman in the Śāntiparvan rather than in the Anuśāsanaparvan.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:22
Dimension:9.5 x 15.9 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Very good with browned edges and a few broken corners. The first folio (f. 1r, f. 1v) has a puncture hole in the right margin.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes covered over with white or written over in black.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, rubric and final rubric, and introduction of speakers are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with white (e.g. f. 10v:
) or written over in black (e.g. f. 19v:
).
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin: 17–
Acquisition: David Nelson (2000: 203) describes the acquisition of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania Library as follows:

“ The University of Pennsylvania Library possesses a collection of almost 3,300 Indic manuscripts, the largest such collection in the Western hemisphere. While the vast majority of these manuscripts are from India, there are also a number of manuscripts from Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tibet.

Some of the manuscripts had been acquired in chance fashion by the Library and the University Museum before 1930, but in that year, at the request of Professor W. Norman Brown (1892–1975), Provost Josiah Penniman provided a sum of money to purchase Indic manuscripts. Shortly thereafter he obtained a donation from the late Mr. John Gribbel. Substantial contributions from Dr. Charles W. Burr, the Faculty Research Fund, and the Cotton Fund soon followed. The bulk of the manuscripts are the result of purchases made using these funds in India, between 1930 and 1935, under the direction of Professor W. Norman Brown. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata – Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v,f. 6rf. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v,f. 8rf. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v,f. 10rf. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v,f. 11rf. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v,f. 12rf. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v,f. 13rf. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v,f. 14rf. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v,f. 15rf. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v,f. 16rf. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v,f. 17rf. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v,f. 18rf. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v,f. 19rf. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v,f. 20rf. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v,f. 21rf. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v,f. 22rf. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22vf. 22v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: .. idaṁ pustaka viṣṇur divyasahasranāmastotraprāraṁbhaḥ ..
f.1v
Line 1: .. śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janma
Line 2: saṁsārabaṁdhanāt .. vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave pra
Line 3: bhaviṣṇave ..
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca .. śrutvā dharmān aśeṣena
Line 4: pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ .. yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evā
Line 5: bhyabhāṣata ..2.. [
f.21r
Line 1: viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ
Line 2: jagataḥ prabhavāpyayaṁ .. bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti pa
Line 3: rābhavam ..22.. arjuna uvāca
padmapatraviśālākṣa padmanā
Line 4: bha surottama .. bhaktānām anuraktānāṁ trātā bhava janārddana ..23..
Line 5: śrībhagavān uvāca
yo māṁ nāmasahasreṇa stotum ichati
Line 6: pāṁḍava .. so ham ekena ślokena stuta eva na saṁśayaḥ ..24..
Line 7:
namo stv anaṁtāya sahasramūrtaye sahasrapādākṣiś!ī!<i>rorubā
f.21v
Line 1: have .. sahasranāmne puruṣāya śāśvate sahasrakoṭīyugadhāri
Line 2: ṇe namaḥ ..25.. namo brahmaṇyadevāya gobrāhmaṇahitāya ca ..
Line 3: jagaddh!ī!<i>tāya kṛṣṇāya goviṁdāya namo namaḥ ..26..
namaḥ ka
Line 4: malanābhāya namas te jalaśāyine .. namas te keśavānaṁta vā
Line 5: sudeva namo stu te ..27..
ākāśāt patitaṁ toyaṁ yathā gacha
Line 6: ti sāgaram .. sarvadevanamaskāraṁ keśavaṁ prati gacchati ..28..
Line 7:
yo naraḥ paṭhate nityaṁ trikālaṁ keśavālaye .. dvikālam ekakā
f.22r
Line 1: laṁ vā krūraṁ sarvaṁ vyapohati ..29.. vāsanād vāsudevasya vasitaṁ
Line 2: bhuvanatrayaṁ .. sarvabhūtanivāso si vāsudeva namo stu te ..30
Line 3:
yasya haste gadācakraṁ garuḍo yasya vāhanaṁ .. śaṅkhaṁ karatale
Line 4: yasya sa me viṣṇuḥ prasīdatu ..31..
bhāti sarveṣu vedeṣu ratiḥ
Line 5: sarveṣu jaṁtuṣu .. taraṇaṁ sarvalokānāṁ tasmād bhāratam ucyate ..32..
MBh. 18.5.53 18.5.37, Appendix I, no. 3, lines 7–8
iti śrī mahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vayyāśakyāṁ śāṁti
Line 2: parvaṇī dānadharme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭirasaṁvāde sahasranāma saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
f.22v
Line 1: .. idaṁ pustaka viṣṇusahasranāmastotraṁ samāptaṁ ..175..
Record revised:4 February 2012