Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2197 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 911 |
Locus: | ff. 1v–53v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r
atha viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ .. |
Incipit: |
f. 1v–f. 2v
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. 52r–f. 52v
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇir vaco yathā brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sarvapāpaṁ vinaśyati 34.. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 52v–f. 53r
iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasāhasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ anuśāsinī parvaṇi dānadharmottare bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇur divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇam astu .. |
Colophon: |
f. 53r–f. 53v
śake .. 1777 samaṁta 1912 .. revā uttaratire prabhavanāma saṁvatsare āśāḍhakṛṣṇa 13 bhṛguvāsare rāje śrīdājī khaḍeṁrāvayāprata paṭhaṇartha śrī gurucaraṇāṁkīta dājī goviṁda upādhe taḷe gāvakaramukāmajhāsīsa lekhanaḥ |
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. 48v. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which corresponding to one in the critical apparatus is verse 129 found on f. 50v–f. 51r. The colophon is followed by the Gāyatrī Mantra. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 53 folia |
Dimension: | 11.2 x 16.1 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated 1–53. |
Formula: | 1–53 |
Signatures: | vi0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and sa0 appears in the upper right margin opposit it on the verso of each folio. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good with browned edges and broken corners on the first two and last two folios. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink on the lower right of f. 1r and f. 53v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 5 lines per page, 6 on f. 53r. |
Color: | The paper of about half of the folios is colored yellow. Invocation, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas, when written, are written in red. Brown ink is frequently used instead of black. |
Border: | Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page f. 1r–f. 29v. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Thursday, on the 13th tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of ā[Z]āḍha in the year called prabhava, 1777 in the śaka era and 1912 in the saṁvat era, which corresponds to 13 June 1855, on the northern bank of the river Revā by dājī goviṁda upādhetaḷe gāvakaramukāmajhāsīsa for rāje śrīdājī khaḍeṁrāvayāprata. |
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 – Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |