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 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–24v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r
.. atha viṣṇusahasranāma .. .. |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt .. 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. 24r–f. 24v
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā .. brahma hatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate ..38.. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 24v
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharme putraśāsane śrīviṣṇoḥ sahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ .. |
Colophon: |
f. 24v
sāṁvrekaropanāmakaṁ lakṣumaṇabhaṭṭena likhitaṁ svārthaṁ parārthaṁ paropakārārthaṁca .. śake 1747 pārthivanāmasaṁvatsare udagayane śiśi(ra) ṛtau phālgunaśuddhapratipadi likhitaṁ .. |
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. 22r. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which corresponding to one in the critical apparatus is verse 131 found on f. 23v. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | European white paper, now browned, with chain lines. |
Watermark: | Traces of a watermark is visible on some leaves. |
Extent: | 24 folia |
Dimension: | 10.3 x 15.2 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio. |
Formula: | 1–24 |
Signatures: | vi0 sa0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | All folios are badly water-stained. One corner and edge of folio 1 (f. 1r, f. 1v) is mutilated, but the text is unaffected. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink on the lower right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 8 lines per page. |
Additions: |
Mistakes covered over with tan. |
Color: | Double daṇḍas are in red. Mistakes are covered over with tan. |
Border: | Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A small decorative rectangular frame within a larger frame is drawn in red on f. 1r. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the 1st tithi of the bright fortnight in the month of phālguna in the season śiśira in the year 1747, called pārthiva, of the śaka era, which corresponds to 9 March 1826 A.D., by Lakṣumaṇa bhaṭṭa sāṁvrekara. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |