Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2341 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 295 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–19v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra |
Incipit: |
f. 1r: vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca .. yasya smara ṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt .. vimucyate namas ta smai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. |
Explicit: |
f19r-f19v: ākāśāt pa titaṁ toyaṁ yathā gachati sāgaraṁ .. sarvadevanamaskāraṁ ke śavaṁ pratigachati ..31.. Note: MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 3–4 |
Final rubric: |
f. 19v: iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasa hasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi dānadharmme ṣuttamānuśāsane bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇor di vyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ .. |
Colophon: |
f. 19v: yādṛśaṁ pustakaṁ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṁ likhitaṁ ma yā .. yadi śuddham aśuddhaṁ vā mama doṣo na vidyate ..1.. |
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. 18r. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which, verse 131 found on f19r-f19v, corresponds to one in the critical apparatus. The final rubric of this manuscript situates the Viṣṇusahasranāman in the Śāntiparvan rather than in the Anuśāsanaparvan. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper. |
Extent: | 19 |
Dimension: | 10.7 x 16.3 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Good with browned edges, a few broken endges and a holes in the margin on folio 14 (f. 14r, f. 14v). |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 8 lines per page. |
Additions: |
On f. 3v in-line text and a marginal correction in the scribe's hand are crossed out and corrected in the left margin in blue ink. |
Color: | The first two of each set of double daṇḍas around numbers is written in mauve. A very few mistakes are covered over with brown or crossed through with blue (f. 3v: ). |
Border: | Single vertical mauve lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
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. ” |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
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Record revised: | 6 February 2012 |
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