Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2326
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:912

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–24v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Cover rubric: f. 1r
.. atha viṣṇusahasranāma .. ..
Incipit: f. 1v
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ..
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
Explicit: f. 24rf. 24v
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā ..
brahma hatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate ..38.. (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 24v
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharme putraśāsane śrīviṣṇoḥ sahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
Colophon: f. 24v
sāṁvrekaropanāmakaṁ lakṣumaṇabhaṭṭena likhitaṁ svārthaṁ parārthaṁ paropakārārthaṁca ..
śake 1747 pārthivanāmasaṁvatsare udagayane śiśi(ra) ṛtau phālgunaśuddhapratipadi likhitaṁ ..
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. 22r. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which corresponding to one in the critical apparatus is verse 131 found on f. 23v.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:European white paper, now browned, with chain lines.
Watermark:Traces of a watermark is visible on some leaves.
Extent:24 folia
Dimension:10.3 x 15.2 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–24
   Signatures:vi0 sa0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:All folios are badly water-stained. One corner and edge of folio 1 (f. 1r, f. 1v) is mutilated, but the text is unaffected.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in blue ink on the lower right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 8 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes covered over with tan.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas are in red. Mistakes are covered over with tan.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A small decorative rectangular frame within a larger frame is drawn in red on f. 1r.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the 1st tithi of the bright fortnight in the month of phālguna in the season śiśira in the year 1747, called pārthiva, of the śaka era, which corresponds to 9 March 1826 A.D., by Lakṣumaṇa bhaṭṭa sāṁvrekara.
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.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Record history

Revised: 5 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. 24v  


Transcription (text structure)

.. atha viṣṇusahasranāma .. ..
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
hariḥ om ..
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ..
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
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viśve(śva)ram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhu(ma)vya(yaṁ) ..
bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavaṁ ..22.. ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
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eṣa niṣkaṁṭakaḥ paṁthā yatra saṁpūjyate hariḥ ..
kupathaṁ taṁ vijānīyād goviṁdarahitāgamaṁ ..30.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*637, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
sarva[de]ve(de)ṣu yat puṇyaṁ sarvatīrtheṣu yat phalaṁ ..
tat phalaṁ samavāpnoti śrutvā devaṁ janārdanaṁ ..31.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
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naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā ..
brahma hatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate ..38.. (Anuṣṭubh)
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharme putraśāsane śrīviṣṇoḥ sahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu .. ..
sāṁvrekaropanāmakaṁ lakṣumaṇabhaṭṭena likhitaṁ svārthaṁ parārthaṁ paropakārārthaṁca ..
śake 1747 pārthivanāmasaṁvatsare udagayane śiśi(ra) ṛtau phālgunaśuddhapratipadi likhitaṁ ..