Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:491
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:888

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. [0]r–47v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Rubric: f. [0]r
atha viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ
Incipit: f. 1rf. 1v
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ..
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana u0
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
Explicit: f. 46r
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā ..
brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sarvapāpaṁ vinaśyati ..63.. (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 46r–f. 46v
iti śrīmahābhārate śata[sa](sā)ha[srya](sryāṁ) saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyā[si](sa)kyāṁ (anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharmottare bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde) śrī(ma)dviṣṇor dīvyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ
Colophon: f. 46vf. 47r
śake 1753 śubhakraṁ nāma saṁvatsare śrāvaṇakṛṣṇa 4 maṁdavāsare idaṁ pustakaṁ rājaśrī āpādikṣitadātye īty upanāma vāstavya kheḍa bhīmātīra prāṁta puṇe
Final rubric: f. 47v
iti viṣṇusahasranāma samāptaḥ
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 147 found on f. 42r. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which corresponding to one in the critical apparatus is verse 156 found on f. 44v.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Folios [0], 1–24, 31, 34–35, 44–45 consist of country-made paper. The remainder consist of European paper with chain lines.
Watermark:Part of a shield, inside of which is a bird (maybe an eagle) is visible on ff. 27–28 (which are connected). A seal with a band across it going downwards, beneath which is written “G M” is visible on ff. 29–30. The bottom of a seal with the words “Gior Magnani” is visible on ff. 36–37.
Extent:48 folia
Dimension:9.5 x 13.9 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:[0], 1–47
Collation: Folios 27–28 and 29–30 are connected sheets. The remainder are single folios.
Formula:[0], ..., 26, 27–28, 29–30, 31, 32–33, 34, 35, 36–37, 38–39, 40–41, 42, 43, ..., 46–47
Condition:The corners on the left side of the folio have been unevenly broken off.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in blue ink on the upper right of f. 1r and on the lower right of f. 47v reads Library University Pennsylvania. A white label on which is hand-written No. 491 appears on f. 1r.
Layout:Written in 5 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:The Same hand is used throughout, despite change of paper.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Part of the final rubric on f. 46v, originally written in red, is written over in black and added to in the top margin.

Decoration

Color:Some of the invocations, the final rubric, the 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.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Saturday, on the 4th tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of śrāvaṇa in the year 1753, called śubhakra, of the śaka era, which corresponds with 27 August 1831 A.D., by Rājaśrī Āpādikṣitadātye, settled in Kheḍa, on the bank of the river Bhima, on the outskirts of Puṇe. Kheḍa on the bank of the Bhima river, is presumably the Khed near Pune mentioned in the Imperial Gazetteer of India Vol. V, p. 374.
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

Record history

Revised: 4 February 2012

Facsimile  (work )

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f. 43v, f. 44r     f. 43v  f. 44r  
f. 44v, f. 45r     f. 44v  f. 45r  
f. 45v, f. 46r     f. 45v  f. 46r  
f. 46v, f. 47r     f. 46v  f. 47r  
f. 47v     f. 47v  


Transcription (text structure)

atha viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
śrīgurucaraṇāraviṁdābhyāṁ namaḥ ..
õ ..
śrīvedavyāsāya namaḥ ..
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ..
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana u0
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
<...>
viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāpyayaṁ ..
bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavam ..47.. ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
<...>
sarvavedeṣu yat puṇyaṁ sarvatīrtheṣu yat phalam
tat phalaṁ samavāpnoti stutvā devaṁ janārdanaṁ ..56.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
<...>
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā ..
brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sarvapāpaṁ vinaśyati ..63.. (Anuṣṭubh)
iti śrīmahābhārate śata[sa](sā)ha[srya](sryāṁ) saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyā[si](sa)kyāṁ (anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharmottare bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde) śrī(ma)dviṣṇor dīvyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu .. ..

End:
yādṛśaṁ pustakaṁ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṁ likhitaṁ mayā ..
yadiśuddham aśuddhaṁ vā mama doṣo na vidyate ..3.. (Anuṣṭubh)
śake 1753 śubhakraṁ nāma saṁvatsare śrāvaṇakṛṣṇa 4 maṁdavāsare idaṁ pustakaṁ rājaśrī āpādikṣitadātye īty upanāma vāstavya kheḍa bhīmātīra prāṁta puṇe
iti viṣṇusahasranāma samāptaḥ