Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2330 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 828 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–16v (complete) |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r: .. śrīviṣṇusahasranāmāvaliprāraṁbhaḥ .. |
Final rubric: |
f. 16v: .. .. iti viṣṇusahasranāmāvali samāptaḥ .. .. |
Colophon: |
f. 16v: .. śake 1720 kālayuktasaṁvatsare āṣāḍhavadyatrayodaśyāṁ ta ddine dāḍekaropanāmakabhāskarena likhitaṁ .. |
Note: |
The Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali, of which this manuscript is a witness, reworks the core of the verse Viṣṇusahasranāman which is included in the Anuśāsanaparvan in the critical edition of the Mahābhārata at MBh. 13.135.1–142. The core reworked consists of MBh. 13.135.14–120. Each name of Viṣṇu is transposed to the dative case and made the core of a mantra beginning with the auspicious syllable õ and ending with the word namas. This manuscript drops the syllable õ everywhere but in the first mantra and drops or abbreviates namas everywhere but in the first and last. This manuscript includes a preface, consisting of a Nyāsa and Dhyāna very similar to the preface found in popular editions of the Bhagavadgītā, such as the Gītā Press edition, which is not included in the critical text of the Mahābhārata and most of which is also absent from the critical apparatus. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1v–2v (complete) |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali Preface |
Incipit: |
f. 1v:
asya śrīviṣṇor divyasahasra
|
Explicit: |
f2r-f2v: śāṁtākāraṁ bhujagaśayanaṁ padmanābhaṁ sureśaṁ viśvādhāraṁ gaganasadṛśaṁ meghavarṇaṁ śubhāṁgaṁ .. lakṣmīkāṁtaṁ kamala nayanaṁ yo!ga!<gi>bhir dhyānagamyaṁ vaṁde viṣṇuṁ bhavabhayaharaṁ sarva lokaikanāthaṁ ..1.. |
Final rubric: |
f. 2v: iti dhyānaṁ .. |
Colophon: | None |
Locus: | ff. 2v–16v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali |
Incipit: |
f. 2v:
õ viśvasmai na
|
Explicit: |
f. 16v:
śaṁkhabhṛte na0
naṁdakine0
|
Final rubric: |
f. 16v: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ viṣṇor divyasahasranāmāvaḷistotraṁ saṁpūrṇam astu .. |
Colophon: | None |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 16 |
Dimension: | 11 x 15 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Good with browned and cracked edges. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 9–10 lines per page. |
Additions: |
There are a few marginal corrections, e.g. on f. 12r, f. 16r, and corrections made by covering errors with yellow pigment. |
Color: | Yellow pigment used for corrections. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the 13th tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of āṣāḍha in the year 1720, called kālayukta, of the śaka era, which corresponds to Wednesday, 11 July 1798 A.D. by Dāḍekara Bhāskara. |
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 – Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Whole image | Individual pages |
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f. 1v,f. 2r | f. 1v f. 2r |
f. 2v,f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r |
asya śrīviṣṇor divyasahasra
Line 2: nāmamaṁtrāṇāṁ vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ
paramātmā devatā
a
Line 3: nuṣṭup chaṁdaḥ
amṛtāṁśūdbhavo bhānur iti bījaṁ
devakī
Line 4: naṁdaneti śaktiḥ
śaṁkhabhṛnnaṁdakīti kilakaṁ ..
śā
Line 5: rṅadhanvā gadādhareti astraṁ .
[
õ viśvasmai na
Line 2: maḥ .
viṣṇave na0
vaṣaṭkārāya0
[
Line 3:
õ bhūta
Line 4: bhāvanāya n0
annādāya0
[
f.16v
Line 1:
samagāyanāya0
devakīnaṁdanāya0
sraṣṭre na0
kṣi
Line 2: tīśāya0
pāpanāśanāya0
śaṁkhabhṛte na0
naṁdakine0
Line 3:
cakriṇe0
śārṅadhanvane0
gadādharāya0
rathāṁgapā
Line 4: ṇaye0
akṣobhyāya0
sarvapraharaṇāyudhāya namaḥ ..
Line 5: ..1000..
Record revised: | 21 February 2012 |
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