Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:398
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:909

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-17v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:śāntiparvan
Incipit: f. 1v:
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṃsārabadhanāt ||
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 1 namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ||
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 2 vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa ...
(MBh. 13.135.1)
Explicit: ff. 16v-17r:
... vijānīyād goviṃdarahitāgamaṃ 56
Note: 156
(Mbh. 13*0637_05-06 (first verse)) sarvavedeṣu yat puṇyaṃ sarvatīrtheṣu yat phalaṃ
tat phalaṃ samavāpnoti stutvā devaṃ janārddana 57
Note: 157
...
f. 17r:
... naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā
brahmahatyādikaṃ pāpaṃ saṃrva sadyo vinaśyati 64
Note: 164
Final rubric: f. 17v:
[ati]{iti} śrīmahābhārate śatasahasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃvaiyāsakyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇī utamānuśāsane dānadharmotare śrīviṣṇor nāmasahasraṃ saṃpūrṇam
Colophon: f. 17v:
saṃvat 18 79 44 mitibhādrapadakraṣṇapakṣe tithi 2 ravīvāsare līkhatuṃ kāśyāmadhye lekhaka rāmarātanabrahmaṇagavaḍadesa0
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:17
Dimension:9.7 x 21.3 cm
Foliation: formula: 1-17
Layout:Written in 7 lines per leaf.

History

Origin: saMvat 1879 [=1822]
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

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya [namaḥ] ( yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṃsārabadhanāt ||
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 1 namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ||
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 2 vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa ...
(MBh. 13.135.001)
f. 16v:
... vijānīyād goviṃdarahitāgamaṃ 56
Note: 156
(Mbh. 13*0637_05-06 (first verse)) sarvavedeṣu yat puṇyaṃ sarvatīrtheṣu yat phalaṃ
tat phalaṃ samavāpnoti stutvā devaṃ janārddana 57
Note: 157
...
f. 17r:
... naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā
brahmahatyādikaṃ pāpaṃ saṃrva sadyo vinaśyati 64
Note: 164
hariḥ oṃ tat [sīd]{sad} [ati]{iti} śrīmahābhārate śatasahasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃvaiyāsakyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇī utamānuśāsane dānadharmotare śrīviṣṇor nāmasahasraṃ saṃpūrṇam
f. 17v:
śubhaṃm astu saṃvat 18 79 44 mitibhādrapadakraṣṇapakṣe tithi 2 ravīvāsare līkhatuṃ kāśyāmadhye lekhaka rāmarātanabrahmaṇagavaḍadesa0
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