Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2335
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:904

Contents

Work 1

Physical description

Locus:ff. 1r–30v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Śivasahasranāmastotra
Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:30
Dimension:10.4 x 16.4 cm
Collation: Paired folios.
Formula:1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, 11–12, ..., 29–30
Condition:Very good. The lower left corners have a water stain. The lower left corner on each of ff. 11–12 (f. 11r, f. 12r) is torn. the edges of the last few folios are frayed.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 6 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

The two parts of the colophon on f. 29v are each written in a different hand from that the scribe. There is just a single marginal correction on f. 23v.

Decoration

Color:The second sentence of the colophon on f. 29v, the rubric on f. 1r:
and the final rubric, colophon, number and signatures on f. 30v:
are written in red.

History

Origin:The first sentence of the colophon states that the manuscript belonged to Dinakara. The addition in red gives his family name Sapre. 18–
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 – Śivasahasranāmastotra.
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. 22v,f. 23rf. 22v  f. 23r  
f. 23v,f. 24rf. 23v  f. 24r  
f. 24v,f. 25rf. 24v  f. 25r  
f. 25v,f. 26rf. 25v  f. 26r  
f. 26v,f. 27rf. 26v  f. 27r  
f. 27v,f. 28rf. 27v  f. 28r  
f. 28v,f. 29rf. 28v  f. 29r  
f. 29v,f. 30rf. 29v  f. 30r  
f. 30vf. 30v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1v
Line 1: .. śivasahasranāma ..
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. vāsudeva uvāca .. tataḥ sa prayato bhū
Line 2: tvā mama tāta yudhiṣṭhira .. prāṁjaliḥ prāha viprarṣir nā
Line 3: masaṁgrahām āditaḥ 1 [
f.29r
Line 2: [ tavāpy aham amitraghna stavaṁ dadmy adya
Line 3: viśrutam svargam ārogyam āyuṣmaṁ dhanyaṁ vedena saṁmitaṁ
Line 4: 49
nāsya vighnaṁ vikurvaṁti dānavā yakṣarākṣasāḥ
Line 5: piśācā yātudhānā vā guhyakā bhujagā api
Line 6: 150
yaḥ paṭheta śuciḥ pārtha brahmacārī jiteṁdriyaḥ
f.29v
Line 1: abhagnayāgo varṣaṁ tu so śvamedhaphalaṁ labhet 181
Line 2:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vai
Line 3: yyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi dānadharme śivasahasra
Line 4: nāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ .. .. śrīsāṁbasadāśivārpaṇa
Line 5: m astu ..
dinakarasyedaṁ pustakaṁ . upanāmaka sapre ..
f.30v
Line 1: .. śivasahasranāma samāptaḥ .. patrāṇi 30 ..
Record revised:21 February 2012