Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2242
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:893

Contents

Work 1

Physical description

Locus:ff. [1]r-20v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:20
Dimension:12 x 18 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Good with browned edges and broken corners.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 9 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow, for example on f. 16v, or indicated by short vertical strokes through the akṣaras in question. On f. 14v, kṛṣṇa is added after the signature rāma in the lower right margin.

Decoration

Color:Final rubric on f. 20v:
and double daṇḍas in red.
Border:Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A decorative rectangular chain in red frames the final rubric on f. 20v.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Sunday, on the 3rd tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of kārtika in the year 1733, called prajāpati, of the śaka era, which corresponds to 5 October 1811 A.D..
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. [1]rf. [1]r  
f. [1]v,f. 2rf. [1]v  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. [19]rf. 18v  f. [19]r  
f. [19]v,f. 20.rf. [19]v  f. 20.r  
f. 20.vf. 20.v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: .. viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. .. yasya smaraṇamātre
Line 2: ṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt .. vimucyate namas ta
Line 3: smai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1..
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca
Line 4:
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ .. yu
Line 5: dhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. [
f.18r
Line 9: [ viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāvyayaṁ
f.18v
Line 1: bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavam ..22.. [
f.18v
Line 9: [ eṣa niḥṣkaṁṭakaḥ paṁthā yatra saṁpūjyate hariḥ
f.19r
Line 1: kupathaṁ taṁ vijānīyād goviṁdarahitāgamā ..26..
Line 2:
itī śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ
Line 3: vaiyyāśakyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi dānadharme bhīṣmayu
Line 4: dhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde viṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ
Line 5: saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu .. śrīrāmacaṁdrā
Line 6: rpaṇam astu ..
śake 1733 .. prajāpati nāma saṁva
Line 7: tsare .. kārtikakṛṣṇatṛtīyā bhānuvāsare taddine
Line 8: idaṁ pustakaṁ samāptaṁ .. .. śrīrāmacaṁdra .. ..
f.20v
Line 1: iti viṣṇusahasranāma samāptaṁ
Record revised:5 February 2012