Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2579
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:898

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–9v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Incipit: f. 1v
yasya smeraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsāravaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ..
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaisaṁpāyana uvāca
śrutvā dhārmāṇy aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvasaḥ ..
yu!ṣṭhi!<>dhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
Explicit: f. 8v
[nā](na)ro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā ..
brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpa sarvapāpaṁ vinaśyati 163 (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 8vf. 9r
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ sāṁtiparvaṇi utamānuśāsane dā
iti śrī mahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ sāṁ<ti>parvaṇi uttamānuśāsane dānadharmottare .. .. śrīviṣṇur nāmasahasraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ samāptaṁ ..
Colophon: f. 9r
śrīkṛṣṇabhallāpakṣāmāsakārthikha saṣṭi tāreki śanivārādina .. .. śrīnṛsiṁhakakhaḍāmadhye li<khi>taṁ haridāsaṁ vaiṣṇava hari .. śrīrāmālāla . trilaskari hari dasā śrī .. .. phaḍhanārti śrīr ga(ṇa)patir sāji ..
Final rubric: f. 9r
śrīviṣṇuṁr nāmāḥ sahasraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
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 146 found on f. 8r. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which corresponding to one in the critical apparatus is verse 156 found on f. 8v. The final rubric is interrupted by repetition of the last word of the final verse, verse 163 and the first line of the final rubric. A shorter final rubric, probably copied from the back page of a model, occurs after a difficult to read colophon. The final rubric of this manuscript situates the Viṣṇusahasranāman in the Śāntiparvan rather than in the Anuśāsanaparvan.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Blue French paper with chain lines.
Watermark:The watermark on f. 9 reads “Brut Jeune's”.
Extent:9 folia
Dimension:28.3 x 15.7 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin or lower right margin on the verso of each folio, except the last which is numbered on f. 9r.
   Formula:1–9
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Good with water and paint stains.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in blue ink on the right of f. 1r and f. 9v reads Library University Pennsylvania. A white label on which is hand-written No. 2579 appears on f. 1r.
Layout:Written in 10–11 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Errors are erased with yellow pigment or blotted out with black ink. Marginalia are added in both red and black ink by other hands.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas are written in red as are some marginal additions. Errors are erased with yellow pigment or blotted out with black ink.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Saturday, on the 6th tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of kārttika in the middle of siṁhakakhaḍā by Haridāsa Vaiṣṇava. More of the name may be contained in the unclear remainder of the colophon. No year is given. 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

Record history

Revised: 6 February 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 1r     f. 1r  
f. 1v, f. 2r     f. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v, f. 3r     f. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v, f. 4r     f. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v, f. 5r     f. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v, f. 6r     f. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v, f. 7r     f. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v, f. 8r     f. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v, f. 9r     f. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v     f. 9v  


Transcription (text structure)

śrīmate rāmānujāya namaḥ ..

yasya smeraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsāravaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ..
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaisaṁpāyana uvāca
śrutvā dhārmāṇy aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvasaḥ ..
yu!ṣṭhi!<>dhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
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viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavayayaṁ ..
bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavam ..146.. ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
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namo stv anaṁtāya sahasramūrtaye
sahasrapādākṣiśiroruvāhave ..
sahasranāmne puruṣāya śāśvate
śahasrakoṭiyugadhāriṇe namaḥ ..150.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*635, lines 5–8 ) (Jagatī)
namaḥ kamalanābhāya namas te jalaśāyine ..
namas te keśavānaṁta vāsudeva namo stu te ..151.. (Anuṣṭubh)
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sarvavedeṣu yat puṇyaṁ sarvatīrtheṣu yat phalaṁ ..
tat phalaṁ samavāpnoti stutvā devaṁ janārddanaṁ ..156.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
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[nā](na)ro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā ..
brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpa sarvapāpaṁ vinaśyati 163 (Anuṣṭubh)
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ sāṁtiparvaṇi utamānuśāsane dā
naśyati .. (The scribe repeated one line of text from naśyati (at the end of verse 163) to śāsane dā in the final rubric.)
iti śrī mahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ sāṁ<ti>parvaṇi uttamānuśāsane dānadharmottare .. .. śrīviṣṇur nāmasahasraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ samāptaṁ ..
cha ..
śrīkṛṣṇabhallāpakṣāmāsakārthikha saṣṭi tāreki śanivārādina .. .. śrīnṛsiṁhakakhaḍāmadhye li<khi>taṁ haridāsaṁ vaiṣṇava hari .. śrīrāmālāla . trilaskari hari dasā śrī .. .. phaḍhanārti śrīr ga(ṇa)patir sāji ..
śrīviṣṇuṁr nāmāḥ sahasraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
śrī rāmā rāmā rāmā rāmā rāmā rāmā ..