Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2327
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:894

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–21v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
atha viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbho yaṁ
Incipit: f. 1v:
prahmovāca

stotrāṇāṁ paramaṁ stotraṁ viṣṇor nāmasahasrakaṁ
hitvā
stotrasahasrāṇi paṭhanīyaṁ mahāmune 1

yasya smaraṇamā
treṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt
vimucyate namas tasmai vi
ṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 2
vaiśaṁpāyanauvāca
śrutvā dha
rmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ
punar evābhyabhāṣata 3
Note:
MBh. 13.135.1
Explicit: f. 20v:

namo stv anaṁtāya sahasramūrtaye
sahasrapādākṣiśirorubāhave
sahasranāmne puruṣāya śā
śvate sahasrakoṭīyugadhāriṇe namaḥ 26
Note:
MBh. 13.135.142*635, lines 5–8
Colophon: f. 20v:
idaṁ pustakaṁ nirguṁ
ḍīkara ity upanāmaka rāmacaṁdrabhaṭṭātmaja viṣṇubhaṭṭena likhit
aṁ paropakārārthaṁ caitravadya 4 samāptaṁ saṁvat 1919 śubhaṁ
Explicit: f. 21r:

rāme rāmeti rāmeti rame rāme manorame
sahasranāma tattulyaṁ rā
ma nāma varānane 27
Note:
MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 7–8
Final rubric: f. 21r:
iti śrīmahābhārate śāṁtiparvaṇi śata
sahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśakyāṁ bhīṣmayudhiṣṭirasaṁvāde vi
ṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ
Colophon: f. 21r:
śake 1784 bhāvanāmasaṁvatsare
uttarāyaṇe taddine sāyaṁkālasamaye saṁaptaṁ
Final rubric: f. 21v:
iti viṣṇusahasranāmaḥ 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 122 found on f. 20r. Its last quarter is repeated, terminated in the auspicious syllable o~ and followed by nama iti, indicating the end of the original text. The text ends a second time with verse 126 followed by a colophon at the end of f. 20v. On f. 21r an additional verse, verse 127, is written followed by the final rubric and a second colophon. Since the whole manuscript is written in the same hand, the two continuations of the text belong to previous models. 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:Paper.
Extent:21
Dimension:9.9 x 16.2 cm
Collation: Folios are attached in pairs except the last, which is a single sheet.
Formula:1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, 11–12, 13–14, 15–16, 17–18, 19–20, 21
Condition:Very good condition with browned edges a few of which have small breaks.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:None, and the manuscript is remarkably clear of marginal corrections, with the exception of two in the same hand on f. 15v and f. 18r.

Decoration

Color:The paper of folios 1–2, 5–6, 9–10, 13–14, 17–18, and 21 is dyed yellow.
Border:Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. Decorative rectangular frames in red appear on f. 1r:
and f. 21v.

History

Origin:

The first colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the 4th tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of caitra in the year 1919 of the saṁvat era, which corresponds to 18 April 1862 A.D., by Viṣṇubhaṭṭa, son of Rāmacandrabhaṭṭa Nirguṁḍīkara.

The second colophon states that the manuscript was completed in the evening in the bright half of the year called bhāva in the year 1784 of the śaka era, which corresponds to the same year.

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. 21vf. 21v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: atha viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbho yaṁ
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ śrīgurubhyo namaḥ prahmovāca
Line 2:
stotrāṇāṁ paramaṁ stotraṁ viṣṇor nāmasahasrakaṁ hitvā
Line 3: stotrasahasrāṇi paṭhanīyaṁ mahāmune 1
yasya smaraṇamā
Line 4: treṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt vimucyate namas tasmai vi
Line 5: ṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 2
vaiśaṁpāyanauvāca śrutvā dha
Line 6: rmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ
Line 7: punar evābhyabhāṣata 3 [
f.20r
Line 4: [ viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ
Line 5: prabhuravyayaṁ bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavaṁ 22 [

na te
Line 6: yāṁti parābhavoṁ
nama iti

[
f.20v
Line 4: [ namo stv anaṁtāya sahasramūrtaye
Line 5: sahasrapādākṣiśirorubāhave sahasranāmne puruṣāya śā
Line 6: śvate sahasrakoṭīyugadhāriṇe namaḥ 26
idaṁ pustakaṁ nirguṁ
Line 7: ḍīkara ity upanāmaka rāmacaṁdrabhaṭṭātmaja viṣṇubhaṭṭena likhit
Line 8: aṁ paropakārārthaṁ caitravadya 4 samāptaṁ saṁvat 1919 śubhaṁ

f.21r
Line 1: end :
rāme rāmeti rāmeti rame rāme manorame sahasranāma tattulyaṁ rā
Line 2: ma nāma varānane 27
iti śrīmahābhārate śāṁtiparvaṇi śata
Line 3: sahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśakyāṁ bhīṣmayudhiṣṭirasaṁvāde vi
Line 4: ṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu
Line 5: rāma cha cha cha
śake 1784 bhāvanāmasaṁvatsare
Line 6: uttarāyaṇe taddine sāyaṁkālasamaye saṁaptaṁ śubhaṁ bhava
Line 7: tu śrīkuladevatā prasanno stu cha cha cha cha
f.21v
Line 1: iti viṣṇusahasranāmaḥ samāptaḥ cha
Record revised:5 February 2012