Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2343
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:896

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–50v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Rubric: f. 1r
.. atha śrīviṣṇusahasra .... nāmastotraprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 1vf. 2v
saccidānaṁdarūpāya kṛṣṇāyākliṣṭakāriṇe ..
namo vedāṁtavedyāya gurave buddhisākṣiṇe ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
Explicit: f. 49v
(.. śrīmahādeva uvāca ..)
rāma rāmeti rāmeti rame rāme manorame ..
sahasranāma tattulyaṁ rāmanāma varānane ..30.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 7–8 )
Final rubric: f. 49vf. 50r
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vayyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi dānadharmānuśāsane bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ
Final rubric: f. 50v
.. .. iti śrīviṣṇusahasra .... .. nāmastotra samāptaḥ ..
Colophon:none
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. 47r. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which, verse 130 found on f. 49v, 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:50 folia
Dimension:8.4 x 14.3 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio, except the last, f. 50r , which is foliated on the recto.
   Formula:1–50
   Signatures:vi0 sa0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio, except f. 35v, where the latter is painted over in white to allow a marginal correction.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Good with browned edges and a few broken corners, frayed edges, and water stains.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 50v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 5 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes covered over with white. The ink has worn off in a very few places, and a very few lines have been repaired or just rewritten.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, final rubric, the introduction of speakers, and numbers, are written in red.
Border:Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. Decorative rectangular frames with triple red lines and flowers in the corners appears on f. 1r and on f. 50v.

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

Record history

Revised: 6 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. 18r     f. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v, f. 19r     f. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v, f. 20r     f. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v, f. 21r     f. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v, f. 22r     f. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22v, f. 23r     f. 22v  f. 23r  
f. 23v, f. 24r     f. 23v  f. 24r  
f. 24v, f. 25r     f. 24v  f. 25r  
f. 25v, f. 26r     f. 25v  f. 26r  
f. 26v, f. 27r     f. 26v  f. 27r  
f. 27v, f. 28r     f. 27v  f. 28r  
f. 28v, f. 29r     f. 28v  f. 29r  
f. 29v, f. 30r     f. 29v  f. 30r  
f. 30v, f. 31r     f. 30v  f. 31r  
f. 31v, f. 32r     f. 31v  f. 32r  
f. 32v, f. 33r     f. 32v  f. 33r  
f. 33v, f. 34r     f. 33v  f. 34r  
f. 34v, f. 35r     f. 34v  f. 35r  
f. 35v, f. 36r     f. 35v  f. 36r  
f. 36v, f. 37r     f. 36v  f. 37r  
f. 37v, f. 38r     f. 37v  f. 38r  
f. 38v, f. 39r     f. 38v  f. 39r  
f. 39v, f. 40r     f. 39v  f. 40r  
f. 40v, f. 41r     f. 40v  f. 41r  
f. 41v, f. 42r     f. 41v  f. 42r  
f. 42v, f. 43r     f. 42v  f. 43r  
f. 43v, f. 44r     f. 43v  f. 44r  
f. 44v, f. 45r     f. 44v  f. 45r  
f. 45v, f. 46r     f. 45v  f. 46r  
f. 46v, f. 47r     f. 46v  f. 47r  
f. 47v, f. 48r     f. 47v  f. 48r  
f. 48v, f. 49r     f. 48v  f. 49r  
f. 49v, f. 50r     f. 49v  f. 50r  
f. 50v     f. 50v  


Transcription (text structure)

.. atha śrīviṣṇusahasra .... nāmastotraprāraṁbhaḥ ..
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
saccidānaṁdarūpāya kṛṣṇāyākliṣṭakāriṇe ..
namo vedāṁtavedyāya gurave buddhisākṣiṇe ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
õ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya .. ..
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
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viśveśvaram i(daṁ) devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāpyayaṁ ..
bhajati ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavaṁ ..22.. ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
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(.. śrīmahādeva uvāca ..)
rāma rāmeti rāmeti rame rāme manorame ..
sahasranāma tattulyaṁ rāmanāma varānane ..30.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 7–8 )
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vayyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi dānadharmānuśāsane bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
cha ..
.. .. iti śrīviṣṇusahasra .... .. nāmastotra samāptaḥ ..