Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2239
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:892

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-14r (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Incipit: f. [1]v:

yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsā
!sa!<ra>baṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1..

namaḥ samastabhū
tānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ..
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2..
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhi
raḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3..
Note:
MBh. 13.135.1
Explicit: f. 14r:

naro
muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā ..
brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sarvapāpaiḥ
pramucyate ..163
Final rubric: f. 14r:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyā
śakyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde viṣṇusahasranāmastotraṁ saṁ
pūrṇaṁ ..
Colophon: f. 14r:
idaṁ pustakaṁ viṣṇuṁbhaṭṭena li<khi>taṁ ..
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 147 found on f. 13r. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which corresponding to one in the critical apparatus is verse 156 found on f. 13v. 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:14
Dimension:10 x 21 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Very good with browned edges and water stains.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 9 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Word divisions marked, in part. Marginal corrections by different hands.

Decoration

Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

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

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. [1]rf. [1]r  
f. [1]v,f. 2rf. [1]v  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. 14vf. 14v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1v
Line 1: .. śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ .. yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsā
Line 2: !sa!<ra>baṁdhanāt .. vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1..
namaḥ samastabhū
Line 3: tānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte .. anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2..
Line 4:
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca .. śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ .. yudhiṣṭhi
Line 5: raḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. [
f.13r
Line 2: [ viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāvyayaṁ .. bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na
Line 1: te yāṁti parābhavam ..147.. [
f.13v
Line 5: [ sa
Line 6: rvavedeṣu yat puṇyaṁ sarvatīrtheṣuyat phalaṁ .. tat phalaṁ śreyam āpnoti śrutvā devaṁ ja
Line 7: nārdanaṁ ..156.. [
f.14r
Line 5: [ naro
Line 6: muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā .. brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sarvapāpaiḥ
Line 7: pramucyate ..163
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyā
Line 8: śakyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde viṣṇusahasranāmastotraṁ saṁ
Line 9: pūrṇaṁ ..
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
idaṁ pustakaṁ viṣṇuṁbhaṭṭena li<khi>taṁ .. śrī .. cha ..
Record revised:5 February 2012