Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:390
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:908

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v–30v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Incipit: f. 1v:

yasya smaraṇamā
treṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate
namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1..
vaiśaṁ
pāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣena pā
vanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ
punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2..
Note:
MBh. 13.135.1
Explicit: f29v-f30r:

āloḍya sarvaśāstrāṇi vicāryai
vaṁ punaḥ punaḥ ..
ida[ṁ]m ekaṁ suniṣpannaṁ dhyeyo nārā
yaṇaḥ sadā ..40..
Note:
MBh. 13.124, Appendix I, no. 13, lines 20–21
Final rubric: f. 30r:
.. iti śrīmanmahābhārate
śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vayyāsikyām anu
śāsanike parvaṇi bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasa<ṁ>vāde śrī
viṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ sa<ṁ>pūrṇaṁ ..
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 f26v-f27r. The critical edition was not available to Poleman who places the Viṣṇusahasranāman in the Śāntiparvan writing, "Although this text is assigned to the Anuśāsanikaparva by the copyist, it is actually from the Śāntiparva."
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:White European paper with chain lines.
Watermark:Part of a watermark emblem is visible on f. 3, f. 4–not enough to make it out fully. Bits and pieces are visible on other folios as well. On f. 5 is 1880 with the bottom cut off. F. 6 has half of some letters, but they are difficult to make out.
Extent:30
Dimension:10.3 x 15.2 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Very good with water stains. The last folio (f. 30r, f. 30v) has broken edges.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written with a reed pen in clear, bold, regular characters tilted slightly rightward in wavy lines.
Additions:

None.

Decoration

Color:Colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow.
Border:Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in red appears on f. 1r.

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

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v,f. 6rf. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v,f. 8rf. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v,f. 10rf. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v,f. 11rf. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v,f. 12rf. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v,f. 13rf. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v,f. 14rf. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v,f. 15rf. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v,f. 16rf. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v,f. 17rf. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v,f. 18rf. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v,f. 19rf. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v,f. 20rf. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v,f. 21rf. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v,f. 22rf. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22v,f. 23rf. 22v  f. 23r  
f. 23v,f. 24rf. 23v  f. 24r  
f. 24v,f. 25rf. 24v  f. 25r  
f. 25v,f. 26rf. 25v  f. 26r  
f. 26v,f. 27rf. 26v  f. 27r  
f. 27v,f. 28rf. 27v  f. 28r  
f. 28v,f. 29rf. 28v  f. 29r  
f. 29v,f. 30rf. 29v  f. 30r  
f. 30vf. 30v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: atha śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. õ yasya smaraṇamā
Line 2: treṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt .. vimucyate
Line 3: namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1..
vaiśaṁ
Line 4: pāyana uvāca .. śrutvā dharmān aśeṣena pā
Line 5: vanāni ca sarvaśaḥ .. yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ
Line 6: punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. [
f.26v
Line 6: [ viśveśvaram a
Line 7: jaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāpyayaṁ .. bhajaṁti ye pu
f.27r
Line 1: ṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavam ..22.. [
f.27v
Line 5: [ namo brahma
Line 6: ṇyadevāya gobrāhmaṇahitāya ca .. jagaddhi
Line 7: tāya kṛṣṇāya goviṁdāya namo namaḥ ..27
f.28r
Line 1: vāsanād vāsudevasya vāsitaṁ bhuvanatra
Line 2: yam .. sarvabhūtanivāso si vāsudeva namo
Line 3: stu te ..28.. īśvara u0 ..
rāma rāmeti rāme
Line 4: ti rame rāme manorame .. sahasranāmatattu
Line 5: lyaṁ rāmanāma varānane ..29..
ākāśā
Line 6: t patitaṁ toyaṁ yathā gachati sāgaram .. sarvade
Line 7: vanamaskāraṁ keśavaṁ prati gacchati ..30..
eṣa
f.28v
Line 1: niṣkaṇṭakaḥ paṁthā yatra saṁpūjyate hariḥ ..
Line 2: kupathaṁ taṁ vijānīyād goviṁdarahitāga
Line 3: mam ..31.. sarvavedeṣu yat puṇyaṁ sarvatīrtheṣu ya
Line 4: t phalam .. tat phalaṁ samavāpnoti stutvā devaṁ janā
Line 5: rdanaṁ ..32.. [
f.29v
Line 6: [ āloḍya sarvaśāstrāṇi vicāryai
Line 7: vaṁ punaḥ punaḥ .. ida[ṁ]m ekaṁ suniṣpannaṁ dhyeyo nārā
f.30r
Line 1: yaṇaḥ sadā ..40..
.. iti śrīmanmahābhārate
Line 1: śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vayyāsikyām anu
Line 1: śāsanike parvaṇi bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasa<ṁ>vāde śrī
Line 1: viṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ sa<ṁ>pūrṇaṁ ..
rcha
Record revised:3 February 2012