Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 388 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 887 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–20v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra |
Incipit: |
f. 1r: yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt .. vimucyate nama s tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca .. śru tvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ .. yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁ tanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. Note: MBh. 13.135.1 |
Explicit: |
f. 20r: yajñeśācyuta go viṁda mādhavānaṁta keśava .. kṛṣṇa viṣṇo hṛṣīkeśa vā sudeva namo stu te ..38.. rāma rāmeti rāmeti () mano [rā]()me .. sahasranāma tat tulyaṁ śrīrāmanāma varānane ..39.. Note: MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 7–8 |
Final rubric: |
f20r-f20v: iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi uttamānuśāsane [dha] dānadharmo padeśe mokṣadharme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇo r divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ .. |
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 129 found on f. 19r. Its last quarter is repeated, terminated in the auspicious syllable o~ and followed by nama iti, indicating the end of the original text. The final rubric of this manuscript situates the Viṣṇusahasranāman in the Śāntiparvan rather than in the Anuśāsanaparvan. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper. |
Extent: | 20 |
Dimension: | 9.1 x 18.3 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 20 lines per page. |
Additions: |
Mistakes written over. |
Color: | Folios 1–12 colored yellow and written in black ink. Folios 13–20 written in brown ink. |
Origin: | 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. ” |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
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Line 4: te yāṁti parābhavoṁ
nama iti ..
Record revised: | 3 February 2012 |
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