Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2788
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:915

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-22v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:anuśāsanaparvan
Incipit: f. 1v:
1|| oṃ viśvasmai namaḥ 1
oṃ viṣṇave namaḥ 2
oṃ vaṣaṭkārāya namaḥ 3
Explicit: f. 22r:
oṃ akṣobhyāya namaḥ 99
Note: 999
107 || oṃ sarvapraharṇāyudhāya namaḥ 1000
Final rubric: f. 22v:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāśikyāṃ ānuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharme bhagavato śrīviṣṇoḥ sahasranāmāvalī saṃpūrṇam
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Paper. Holes for the cord at top.
Extent:22
Dimension:25.1 x 11.1 cm
Foliation:22 leaves, foliated 1-22.
formula: 1-22
Layout:Written in 23-25 lines per leaf. Written along the shorter edge, like a European book. Each lines has a name of viSNu. Verse numbers, I guess, noted in the left besides text (see the '1' and '107' below).

Decoration

Color:Virtually every other folio is colored yellow. Mistakes covered over with yellow.

History

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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata -- Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
1|| oṃ viśvasmai namaḥ 1
oṃ viṣṇave namaḥ 2
oṃ vaṣaṭkārāya namaḥ 3
f. 22r:
oṃ akṣobhyāya namaḥ 99
Note: 999
107 || oṃ sarvapraharṇāyudhāya namaḥ 1000
f. 22v:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāśikyāṃ ānuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharme bhagavato śrīviṣṇoḥ sahasranāmāvalī saṃpūrṇam oṃ namo stv anaṃtāya sahasramūrtaye sahasrapādākṣiśiroru bāhave || sahasranāmne puruṣāya śāśvate sahasrakoṭīyugadhāriṇe namaḥ ||1|| || ||
Record revised:17 August 2010