Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:398
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:909

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–17v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Incipit: f. 1v
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabadhanāt
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 1 (Anuṣṭubh)
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 2 (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca
śrutvā dharmā(ṇy a)śeṣeṇa (pā)vanāni ca sarvaśaḥ
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata 3 (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
Explicit: f. 17r
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā
brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sa!ṁrva!<rvaṁ> sadyo vinaśyati 64 (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 17v
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsakyāṁ śāṁ tiparva!ṇī!<ṇi> utamānuśāsane dānadharmotare śrīviṣṇor nāmasahasraṁ saṁpūrṇam
Colophon: f. 17v
saṁvat 18 79 44m iti bhādrapadakraṣṇapakṣe tithi 2 ravīvāsare līkhatuṁ kāśyāmadhye lekhaka rāmarātanabrahmamaṇagavaḍadesa0
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 148 found on f. 15v. This verse is followed by nine verses included in the critical apparatus as well as several not included.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper
Extent:17 folia
Dimension:9.7 x 21.3 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Numbered in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–17
   Signatures:vi0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio, and rāma appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on f. 1v.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Very good.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in blue ink on the right of f. 1r and the lower right of [[facs=f20v, locus=f. 17v]] reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted leftward in straight lines.
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow, which has worn away in many places. Marginal and interlinear corrections and a few lengthy marginal additions.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes are painted over in yellow.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Sunday, during the second tithi in the dark fortnight of the month of bhādrapada in the year 1879 of the saṁvat era in Kāśī by the brāhmaṇa Rāmarātana from Gavaḍadeśa. The date mentioned corresponds to Sunday, 4 August 1822.
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

Record history

Revised: 4 February 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 1r     f. 1r  
f. 1v, f. 2r     f. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v, f. 3r     f. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v, f. 4r     f. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v, f. 5r     f. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v, f. 6r     f. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v, f. 7r     f. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v, f. 8r     f. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v, f. 9r     f. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v, f. 10r     f. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v, f. 11r     f. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v, f. 12r     f. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v, f. 13r     f. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v, f. 14r     f. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v, f. 15r     f. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v, f. 16r     f. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v, f. 17r     f. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v     f. 17v  


Transcription (text structure)

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ
õ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya [namaḥ] (..12..)

yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabadhanāt
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 1 (Anuṣṭubh)
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 2 (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca
śrutvā dharmā(ṇy a)śeṣeṇa (pā)vanāni ca sarvaśaḥ
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata 3 (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
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viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāvyayaṁ
bhajaṁti ye puṣka rākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavam 49 ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca
padmapatraviśālākṣa padmanābha surottama
bhaktānām anuraktānāṁ trātā bhava janārddana 49 ( Mbh. 13.135.142*635, lines 1–2 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
śrībhagavān uvāca
yo māṁ nāmasahasreṇa stotum ichati pāṁḍava
so ham ekena ślokena stu ta eva na saṁśayaḥ 50 ( Mbh. 13.135.142*635, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
namo stv anaṁtāya sahasramūrtaye
sahasrapādākṣiśiro ruvāhave
sahasranāmne puruṣāya śāśvate
sahasrakoṭīyugadhāriṇe namaḥ 51 ( Mbh. 13.135.142*635, lines 5–8 ) (Jagatī)
namaḥ kamalanābhāya namas te jalaśāyine
namas te keśavānaṁta vāsu deva namo stu te 52 (Anuṣṭubh)
vāsanāvāsudevasya vasitaṁ bhuvanatrayaṁ
sarvabhūtanivāsīnāṁ vāsudeva namo stu te 53 ( MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 1–2 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
namo brahmaṇyadevāya govrāhmaṇahitāya ca
jagaddhitāya kṛṣṇāya goviṁdāya namo namaḥ 54 ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 1–2 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
ākāśāt patitaṁ toyaṁ yathā gachati sāgaram
sarvadeva<na>maskāraṁ keśavaṁ prati gacchati ..30.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
eṣa niḥkaṁṭakaḥ panthā yatra saṁpūjyate hariḥ
kupathaṁ taṁ vijānīyād goviṁdarahitāgamaṁ 56 ( Mbh. 13.135.142*637, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
sarvavedeṣu yat puṇyaṁ sarvatīrtheṣu yat phalaṁ
tat phalaṁ samavāpnoti stutvā devaṁ janārddana 57 ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
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naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā
brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sa!ṁrva!<rvaṁ> sadyo vinaśyati 64 (Anuṣṭubh)
hariḥ õ tat !sīd!<sad>
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsakyāṁ śāṁ tiparva!ṇī!<ṇi> utamānuśāsane dānadharmotare śrīviṣṇor nāmasahasraṁ saṁpūrṇam
śubhaṁm astu
saṁvat 18 79 44m iti bhādrapadakraṣṇapakṣe tithi 2 ravīvāsare līkhatuṁ kāśyāmadhye lekhaka rāmarātanabrahmamaṇagavaḍadesa0