Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2341
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:295

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–19v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Incipit: f. 1r:
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
yasya smara
ṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas ta
smai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1..
Explicit: f19r-f19v:

ākāśāt pa
titaṁ toyaṁ yathā gachati sāgaraṁ ..
sarvadevanamaskāraṁ ke
śavaṁ pratigachati ..31..
Note:
MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 3–4
Final rubric: f. 19v:
iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasa
hasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi dānadharmme
ṣuttamānuśāsane bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇor di
vyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
Colophon: f. 19v:

yādṛśaṁ pustakaṁ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṁ likhitaṁ ma
yā ..
yadi śuddham aśuddhaṁ vā mama doṣo na vidyate ..1..
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 122 found on f. 18r. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which, verse 131 found on f19r-f19v, corresponds to one in the critical apparatus. 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:19
Dimension:10.7 x 16.3 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Good with browned edges, a few broken endges and a holes in the margin on folio 14 (f. 14r, f. 14v).
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 8 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

On f. 3v in-line text and a marginal correction in the scribe's hand are crossed out and corrected in the left margin in blue ink.

Decoration

Color:The first two of each set of double daṇḍas around numbers is written in mauve. A very few mistakes are covered over with brown or crossed through with blue (f. 3v:
).
Border:Single vertical mauve 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. 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. 19vf. 19v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca .. yasya smara
Line 2: ṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt .. vimucyate namas ta
Line 3: smai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1..
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca .. śru
Line 4: tvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ .. yudhiṣṭhiraḥ
Line 5: śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. [
f.18r
Line 6: [ viśveśvaram a
Line 7: jaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāpyayaṁ .. bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te
Line 8: yāṁti parābhavam ..22.. [
f.19r
Line 7: [ ākāśāt pa
Line 8: titaṁ toyaṁ yathā gachati sāgaraṁ .. sarvadevanamaskāraṁ ke
f.19v
Line 1: śavaṁ pratigachati ..31..
iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasa
Line 2: hasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi dānadharmme
Line 3: ṣuttamānuśāsane bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇor di
Line 4: vyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
Line 5: śubhaṁ bhavatu ..
end :
yādṛśaṁ pustakaṁ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṁ likhitaṁ ma
Line 6: yā .. yadi śuddham aśuddhaṁ vā mama doṣo na vidyate ..1..

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Record revised:6 February 2012