Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2326
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:912

Contents

Work 1

Locus:??? (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Incipit: f. 1v:
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṃsārabaṃdhanāt ||
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||1|| namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ||
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||2|| vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca || śrutvā dharmān aśeṣena
Note: numbered 3
(MBh. 13.135.001)
Explicit: f. 23r:
... vijānīyād goviṃdarahitāgamaṃ ||30
Note: 130
||
(Mbh. 13*0637_05-06) f. 23v:
sarva[de]ve(ṣu yat puṇyaṃ sarvatīrtheṣu yat phalaṃ
tat phalaṃ samavāpnoti stutvā devaṃ janārddana ||31
Note: 131
|| ... ff. 17r-17v:
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā ||
brahma
f. 17v:
hatyādikaṃ pāpaṃ sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyati ||38
Note: 138
||
Final rubric: f. 17v:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharme putraśāsane śrīviṣṇoḥ sahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ ||
Colophon: f. 17v:
sāṃvrekaropanāmaka lakṣumaṇa bhaṭṭena likhitaṃ svārthaṃ parārthaṃ paropakārārthaṃ ca || śake 1747 pārthivanāma saṃvatsare udagayane śiśi( ṛtau phālgunaśuddhapratipadi likhitaṃ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:European white paper, now brown. Chain lines.
Watermark:Traces of watermark on some leaves.
Extent:24
Dimension:10.3 x 15.2 cm
Foliation:24 leaves, foliated 1-24.
formula: 1-24
Condition:Folios badly water-stained. Folio 1 slightly mutilated but text still legible.
Layout:Written in 8 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with tan.

History

Origin: zaka 1747 [= 1825]
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.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||
hariḥ om || yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṃsārabaṃdhanāt ||
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||1|| namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ||
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||2|| vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca || śrutvā dharmān aśeṣena
Note: numbered 3
(MBh. 13.135.001)
f. 23r:
... vijānīyād goviṃdarahitāgamaṃ ||30
Note: 130
||
(Mbh. 13*0637_05-06)
f. 23v:
sarva[de]ve(ṣu yat puṇyaṃ sarvatīrtheṣu yat phalaṃ
tat phalaṃ samavāpnoti stutvā devaṃ janārddana ||31
Note: 131
|| ...
f. 17r:
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā ||
brahma
f. 17v:
hatyādikaṃ pāpaṃ sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyati ||38
Note: 138
|| iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharme putraśāsane śrīviṣṇoḥ sahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ || śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu || || sāṃvrekaropanāmaka lakṣumaṇa bhaṭṭena likhitaṃ svārthaṃ parārthaṃ paropakārārthaṃ ca || śake 1747 pārthivanāma saṃvatsare udagayane śiśi( ṛtau phālgunaśuddhapratipadi likhitaṃ ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010