Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2343
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:896

Contents

Work 1

Physical description

Locus:ff. 1r–50v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:50
Dimension:8.4 x 14.3 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Good with browned edges and a few broken corners, frayed edges, and water stains.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 5 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes covered over with white. The ink has worn off in a very few places, and a very few lines have been repaired or just rewritten.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, final rubric, the introduction of speakers, and numbers, are written in red.
Border:Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. Decorative rectangular frames with triple red lines and flowers in the corners appears on f. 1r:
and on f. 50v.

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  
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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. 30v,f. 31rf. 30v  f. 31r  
f. 31v,f. 32rf. 31v  f. 32r  
f. 32v,f. 33rf. 32v  f. 33r  
f. 33v,f. 34rf. 33v  f. 34r  
f. 34v,f. 35rf. 34v  f. 35r  
f. 35v,f. 36rf. 35v  f. 36r  
f. 36v,f. 37rf. 36v  f. 37r  
f. 37v,f. 38rf. 37v  f. 38r  
f. 38v,f. 39rf. 38v  f. 39r  
f. 39v,f. 40rf. 39v  f. 40r  
f. 40v,f. 41rf. 40v  f. 41r  
f. 41v,f. 42rf. 41v  f. 42r  
f. 42v,f. 43rf. 42v  f. 43r  
f. 43v,f. 44rf. 43v  f. 44r  
f. 44v,f. 45rf. 44v  f. 45r  
f. 45v,f. 46rf. 45v  f. 46r  
f. 46v,f. 47rf. 46v  f. 47r  
f. 47v,f. 48rf. 47v  f. 48r  
f. 48v,f. 49rf. 48v  f. 49r  
f. 49v,f. 50rf. 49v  f. 50r  
f. 50vf. 50v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: .. atha śrīviṣṇusahasra ..
Line 1: .. nāmastotraprāraṁbhaḥ ..

f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. saccidānaṁda
Line 2: rūpāya kṛṣṇāyākliṣṭakāriṇe .. na
Line 3: mo vedāṁtavedyāya gurave buddhisākṣi
Line 4: ṇe ..1..
õ namo bhagavate vāsudevā
Line 5: ya .. ..
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁ
f.2r
Line 1: sārabaṁdhanāt .. vimucyate namas ta
Line 2: smai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. vaiśaṁ
Line 3: pāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśe
Line 4: ṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ .. yudhi
Line 5: ṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣa
f.2v
Line 1: ta ..2.. [
f.47r
Line 2: [ viśveśvaram i() devaṁ jagataḥ pra
Line 3: bhavāpyayaṁ .. bhajati ye puṣkarā
Line 4: kṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavaṁ ..22.. [
f.49v
Line 1: [ () rāma rāmeti rāmeti rame rāme
Line 2: manorame .. sahasranāma tattulyaṁ rā
Line 3: manāma varānane ..30..
iti śrī
Line 4: mahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ
Line 5: vayyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi dāna
f.50r
Line 1: dharmānuśāsane bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁ
Line 2: vāde śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāmasto
Line 3: traṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu .. cha ..

f.50v
Line 1:
.. .. iti śrīviṣṇusahasra ..
Line 2: .. .. nāmastotra samāptaḥ ..
Record revised:6 February 2012