Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2348
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:897

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–16v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Incipit: f. 1v
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsāravaṁdhanāt
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 1 (Anuṣṭubh)
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 2 (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca
śrutvā dharmmā[ṇya](na)śeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata!ḥ!<> 3 (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
Explicit: f. 16r
yasya haste gadācakraṁ garuḍo yasya vāhanaṁ
śaṁkhaḥ karatale yasya sa me viṣṇuḥ prasīdatu 65 ( MBh. 18.5.54*61, lines 7–8 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 16rf. 16v
iti śrīmahābhārate satasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇy uttamānuśāsano dānadharmmottare śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāma saṁpūrṇam
Colophon: f. 16v
kalyāṇaṁ caitravadidvādaśyāṁ guruvāra idaṁ likhitvā rādhākṛṣṇena śubhaṁ saṁvat 1888 śakī
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 144 found on f. 14v. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which corresponding to one in the critical apparatus is verse 152 found on f. 15r. The first line of verse 153 likewise corresponds; a modern hand has added the corresponding second line in pencil in the margin to replace the variant original second line. 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:European white paper with chain lines.
Watermark:Folios 8 and 9 have a watermark: Lady Britannia on her throne with a shield.
Extent:16 folia
Dimension:11.5 x 20.7 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–16
   Signatures:vi0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma0 appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Very good with browned edges a few of which are have small breaks.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. 16v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow, crossed through or blotched out with gray or black ink. A modern hand has made in-line and marginal corrections in pencil. On f. 15r, a modern hand has added a standard second line in pencil in the margin to replace the variant original second line of verse 153. The same hand has made other corrections in pencil throughout.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Thursday, on the 12th tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of caitra in the year 1888 of the saṁvat era, which corresponds to 9 May 1831 A.D., by Rādhakṛṣṇa.
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. 10r     f. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v, f. 11r     f. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v, f. 12r     f. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v, f. 13r     f. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v, f. 14r     f. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v, f. 15r     f. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v, f. 16r     f. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v     f. 16v  


Transcription (text structure)

.. śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ

yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsāravaṁdhanāt
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 1 (Anuṣṭubh)
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 2 (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca
śrutvā dharmmā[ṇya](na)śeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata!ḥ!<> 3 (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
<...>
viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ pra[bhavāpya](bhuvam avya)yaṁ
bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavam 44 ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
ākāśāt patitaṁ toyaṁ yathā gachati sāgaraṁ
sarbadevanamaskāraṁ keśavaṁ prati gachati 52 ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
eṣa niṣkaṁṭakaḥ paṁthā yatra saṁpūjyate hariḥ
[kupaṁ phalaṁ] tatphalaṁ śriyam āpnoti śrutvā devaṁ janārddanaṁ 53
(kupathaṁ taṁ vijānīyād goviṁdarahitāgamaṁ) ( MBh. 13.135.142*637, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
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yasya haste gadācakraṁ garuḍo yasya vāhanaṁ
śaṁkhaḥ karatale yasya sa me viṣṇuḥ prasīdatu 65 ( MBh. 18.5.54*61, lines 7–8 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
iti śrīmahābhārate satasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇy uttamānuśāsano dānadharmmottare śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāma saṁpūrṇam
śubham astu
kalyāṇaṁ caitravadidvādaśyāṁ guruvāra idaṁ likhitvā rādhākṛṣṇena śubhaṁ saṁvat 1888 śakī
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