Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2334
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:913

Contents

Work 1

Physical description

Locus:ff. 1v–22r (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:24
Dimension:10.4 x 16 cm
Collation: the first two folios are attached; the rest are single folia.
Formula:0–1, 2, ...
Condition:Very good with browned edges, cracked edges and a few water stains.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted leftward in the same hand as Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2475 and Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2476.
Hand 2:Writes ru for , e.g. śruṇu on f. 3r, line 2, but ṛṣi on f. 3r, line 3. Some downward elbow style us, e.g. astu on f. 22r line 1. Similar hand to UPenn 2486.
Additions:

There are few marginal corrections. A very few mistakes are covered over with yellow.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, final rubric, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. A very few mistakes are covered over with yellow. Yellow is spilled on f. 18v.
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

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Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.0r
Line 1: .. śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbha ..
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. saccidānaṁdarūpāya kṛṣṇāyākli
Line 2: ṣṭakāriṇe .. namo vedāṁtavedyāya gurave buddhisākṣiṇe ..1..
ya
Line 3: sya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt .. vimucyate na
Line 4: mas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2..
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca .. śru
Line 5: tvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ .. yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁta
Line 6: navaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. [
f.21r
Line 3: [ viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāpya
Line 4: yaṁ .. bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavaṁ ..132.. [
Line 6: [
śrībhagavān u
Line 7: vāca ..
yo māṁ nāmasahasreṇa stotum ichati pāṁḍava so
f.21v
Line 1: ham ekena ślokena stuta eva na saṁśayaḥ ..134.. namo stv a
Line 2: naṁtāya sahasramūrtaye sahasrapādākṣiśirorubāha
Line 3: ve .. sahasranāmne puruṣāya śāśvate sahasrakoṭīyuga
Line 4: dhāriṇe namaḥ ..135..
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasrya
Line 5: saṁhitāyāṁ anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharme yudhiṣṭhirabhī
Line 6: ṣmasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇusahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
cha ..
f.22r
Line 1: śubhaṁ bhavat .. śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
f.22v
Line 1: .. śrīviṣṇusahasranāmasamāptaḥ ..
Record revised:5 February 2012