Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2239 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 892 |
Locus: | ff. 1v-14r |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra |
Incipit: |
f. [1]v
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsā!sa!<ra>baṁdhanāt .. vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte .. anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca .. śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ .. yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 14r
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā .. brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate ..163 (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 14r
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāśakyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde viṣṇusahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ .. |
Colophon: |
f. 14r
idaṁ pustakaṁ viṣṇuṁbhaṭṭena li<khi>taṁ .. |
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 147 found on f. 13r. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which corresponding to one in the critical apparatus is verse 156 found on f. 13v. 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: | 14 folia |
Dimension: | 10 x 21 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated [1], 2–14 in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio except f. 1v. |
Formula: | [1], 2–14 |
Signatures: | viṣṇu0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio except f. 10v and f. 11v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good with browned edges and water stains. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in green ink in the middle of f. 1r and f. 14v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 9 lines per page. |
Additions: |
Word divisions marked, in part. Marginal corrections by different hands. |
Border: | Vertical double red 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 |