Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2330
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:828

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r-16v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:viṣṇusahasranāmāvali + nyāsa
Cover rubric:|| śrīviṣṇusahasranāmāvali prāraṃbhaḥ ||
Incipit: f. 1v:
asya śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāmamaṃtrāṇāṃ vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ paramātmā devatā anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ amṛtāśūdbhavo bhānur iti bījaṃ devakīnaṃdaneti śaktiḥ śaṃkhabhṛnnaṃdakīti kilakaṃ || śārṅadhnvā gadādhareti astraṃ ||
Explicit: f. 16v:
kṣitīśāya0 pāpanāśanāya0 śaṃkhabhṛtena0 naṃdakine0 cakriṇe0 śārṅadhanvane0 gadādharāya0 rathāṃgapāṇaye0 akṣobhyāya0 sarvapraharaṇāyudhāya namaḥ || ||1000||
Final rubric: f. 16v:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ viṣṇor divyasahasranāmāvalistrotram saṃpūrṇam astu || || śrīviṣṇvārapaṇam astu || || || iti viṣṇusahasranāmāvali samāptaḥ ||
Colophon: f. 16v:
|| śake 1720 kālayuktasaṃvatsare āṣāḍhavadyatrayodaśyāṃtadine dāḍekaropanāmakabhāskarena likhitaṃ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper
Extent:16
Dimension:11 x 15 cm
Foliation:16 leaves, foliated 1-16.
formula: 1-16

Decoration

Color:Yellow pigment used for corrections.

History

Origin:Dāḍekara Bhāskara 1798-06-26
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 -- Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

|| śrīviṣṇusahasranāmāvali prāraṃbhaḥ ||
f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || asya śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāmamaṃtrāṇāṃ vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ paramātmā devatā anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ amṛtāśūdbhavo bhānur iti bījaṃ devakīnaṃdaneti śaktiḥ śaṃkhabhṛnnaṃdakīti kilakaṃ || śārṅadhnvā gadādhareti astraṃ ||
f. 16v:
kṣitīśāya0
pāpanāśanāya0
śaṃkhabhṛtena0
naṃdakine0
cakriṇe0
śārṅadhanvane0
gadādharāya0
rathāṃgapāṇaye0
akṣobhyāya0
sarvapraharaṇāyudhāya namaḥ || ||1000|| iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ viṣṇor divyasahasranāmāvalistrotram saṃpūrṇam astu || || śrīviṣṇvārapaṇam astu || || || iti viṣṇusahasranāmāvali samāptah || || śake 1720 kālayuktasaṃvatsare āṣāḍhavadyatrayodaśyāṃtadine dāḍekaropanāmakabhāskarena likhitaṃ ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010