Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:390
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:908

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1v–30v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Cover rubric: f. 1r
atha śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ
Incipit: f. 1v
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣena pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
Explicit: f. 29vf. 30r
āloḍya sarvaśāstrāṇi vicāryaivaṁ punaḥ punaḥ ..
ida[ṁ]m ekaṁ suniṣpannaṁ dhyeyo nārāyaṇaḥ sadā ..40.. ( MBh. 13.124, Appendix I, no. 13, lines 20–21 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 30r
.. iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vayyāsikyām anuśāsanike parvaṇi bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasa<ṁ>vāde śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ sa<ṁ>pūrṇaṁ ..
Colophon:none
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. 26vf. 27r. The critical edition was not available to Poleman who places the Viṣṇusahasranāman in the Śāntiparvan writing, ‘Although this text is assigned to the Anuśāsanikaparva by the copyist, it is actually from the Śāntiparva.’
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:White European paper with chain lines.
Watermark:Part of a watermark emblem is visible on f. 3, f. 4–not enough to make it out fully. Bits and pieces are visible on other folios as well. On f. 5 is 1880 with the bottom cut off. F. 6 has half of some letters, but they are difficult to make out.
Extent:30 folia
Dimension:10.3 x 15.2 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–30
   Signatures:vi0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio. On f. 30v vi0 sa0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin and rāma appears above the folio number in the lower left margin.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Very good with water stains. The last folio (f. 30r, f. 30v) has broken edges.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in blue ink on the lower right of f. 1r and f. 17v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written with a reed pen in clear, bold, regular characters tilted slightly rightward in wavy lines.
Additions:

None.

Decoration

Color:Colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow.
Border:Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in red appears on f. 1r.

History

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.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata – Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Record history

Revised: 3 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. 17r     f. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v, f. 18r     f. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v, f. 19r     f. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v, f. 20r     f. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v, f. 21r     f. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v, f. 22r     f. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22v, f. 23r     f. 22v  f. 23r  
f. 23v, f. 24r     f. 23v  f. 24r  
f. 24v, f. 25r     f. 24v  f. 25r  
f. 25v, f. 26r     f. 25v  f. 26r  
f. 26v, f. 27r     f. 26v  f. 27r  
f. 27v, f. 28r     f. 27v  f. 28r  
f. 28v, f. 29r     f. 28v  f. 29r  
f. 29v, f. 30r     f. 29v  f. 30r  
f. 30v     f. 30v  


Transcription (text structure)


atha śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. õ
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣena pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
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viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāpyayaṁ ..
bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavam ..22.. ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
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namo brahmaṇyadevāya gobrāhmaṇahitāya ca ..
jagaddhitāya kṛṣṇāya goviṁdāya namo namaḥ ..27 ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 1–2 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
vāsanād vāsudevasya vāsitaṁ bhuvanatrayam ..
sarvabhūtanivāso si vāsudeva namostu te ..28.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 1–2 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
īśvara u0 ..
rāma rāmeti rāmeti rame rāme manorame ..
sahasranāmatattulyaṁ rāmanāma varānane ..29.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 7–8 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
ākāśāt patitaṁ toyaṁ yathā gachati sāgaram ..
sarvadevanamaskāraṁ keśavaṁ prati gacchati ..30.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
eṣa niṣkaṇṭakaḥ paṁthā yatra saṁpūjyate hariḥ ..
kupathaṁ taṁ vijānīyād goviṁdarahitāgamam ..31.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*637, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
sarvavedeṣu yat puṇyaṁ sarvatīrtheṣu yat phalam ..
tat phalaṁ samavāpnoti stutvā devaṁ janārdanaṁ ..32.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*639, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
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āloḍya sarvaśāstrāṇi vicāryaivaṁ punaḥ punaḥ ..
ida[ṁ]m ekaṁ suniṣpannaṁ dhyeyo nārāyaṇaḥ sadā ..40.. ( MBh. 13.124, Appendix I, no. 13, lines 20–21 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
.. iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vayyāsikyām anuśāsanike parvaṇi bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasa<ṁ>vāde śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ sa<ṁ>pūrṇaṁ ..
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