Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2186 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 916 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–3v |
Author: | Śaṅkara |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmaphalaśruti |
Incipit: |
f. 1r
itīdam ity anena nāmasahasram anyūnādhikam uktam iti darśayati VSNBh. 121 prakrame kiṁ japan mucyate jaṁtur iti japaśabdopādānāt kīrtayed ity anenāpi trividho japo lakṣyate uccopāṁśumānasalakṣaṇas trividho japaḥ 1 |
Explicit: |
f. 3v
sahasranāmasaṁbaddhā vyākhyā sarvasukhāvahā .. śrutismṛtinyayamūlā racitā haripādayoḥ .. ( VSNBh. 142, p. 430, lines 4-5 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 3v
iti śrīmachaṁkarācāryaviracitaṁ viṣṇusahasranāmaphala!śṛ!<śru>tibhāṣyaṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ.. |
Note: | The manuscript includes the commentary on the final section known as the phalaśruti of the Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra attributed to Śaṁkara. The final rubric, the rubric of the subcommentary, and the final rubric of the subcommentary all mention the Bhāṣya composed by Śaṁkarācārya, and the final rubric of the subcommentary declares the end of the Viṣṇusahasranāmaphalaśṛtibhāṣya of Śaṅkara the student of Govinda. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1r–8[b]v |
Author: | Unknown |
Rubric: |
f. 1r
atha śaṁkarācāryakṛtabhāṣya itīdaṁkīrtanīyasya ṭīkām ārabhyate |
Incipit: |
f. 3v
ekaikanāmastavanasya puṇyaviśeṣaphalasādhanatvaṁ sarvasādhanatvaṁ ca darśayataḥ śrīviṣṇudharmottarasyādhyāyaikādaśasyātra nāmasahasravyākhyāne pāṭhaḥ sahasranāmasaṁkīrtane śaktasya katipayanāmasaṁkīrtanenāpi samastapurūṣārthāḥ sidhyaṁtīti darśayituṁ |
Explicit: |
f. 8[a]r
samacaraṇasarojaṁ sāṁdranālāṁbudābhaṁ jaghana na hitapāṇiṁ maṁḍanaṁ maṁḍanānāṁ taruṇatulasimālākaṁdharaṁ kaṁjanetraṁ sadayadhavalahāsaṁ viṭhalaṁ ciṁtayāmi (Mālinī) |
Final rubric: |
f. 8[a]r
iti śrīgoviṁdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyaśaṁkarabhagavataḥ kṛtau śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaphalaśṛtibhāṣyaṁ samāptaṁ |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | The manuscript contains a subcommentary by an unknown author on the Viṣṇusahasranāmaphalaśrutibhāṣya attributed to Śaṅkara. The rubric announces the beginning of the Ṭīkā on the Bhāṣya composed by Śaṁkarācārya. The work includes the Bhāṣya uninterrupted on f. 1r–f. 3v, then includes adhyāya 11 of the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, and several verses from the Mahābhārata. The subcommentary itself adds just a few sentences to the cited passages. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Blue European paper with chain lines and watermarks. |
Watermark: | On f. 1 is clearly seen “CAPRONY” and on f. 7 “J CAPERONY”. |
Extent: | 9 folia |
Dimension: | 10.5 x 20 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio, except f. [8a], which is unnumbered. Two pages, f. [8a]v and f. 8[b]r are blank. |
Formula: | 1–7, [8a], 8[b] |
Formula: | 1-2, 3, 4-5, 6, 7, [8a]-8[b] |
Condition: | Very good with browned edges. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink on the lower right of f. 8[b]v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 9 lines per page. |
Additions: | None. |
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 – Viṣṇusahasranāmaphalaśrutibhāṇya. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Whole image | Individual pages | |
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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. [8a]r | f. 7v f. [8a]r | |
f. [8a]v, f. 8[b]r | f. [8a]v f. 8[b]r | |
f. 8[b]v | f. 8[b]v |