Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 398 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 909 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–17v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabadhanāt vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 1 (Anuṣṭubh) namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave 2 (Anuṣṭubh) vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca śrutvā dharmā(ṇy a)śeṣeṇa (pā)vanāni ca sarvaśaḥ yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata 3 (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 17r
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā brahmahatyādikaṁ pāpaṁ sa!ṁrva!<rvaṁ> sadyo vinaśyati 64 (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 17v
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsakyāṁ śāṁ tiparva!ṇī!<ṇi> utamānuśāsane dānadharmotare śrīviṣṇor nāmasahasraṁ saṁpūrṇam |
Colophon: |
f. 17v
saṁvat 18 79 44m iti bhādrapadakraṣṇapakṣe tithi 2 ravīvāsare līkhatuṁ kāśyāmadhye lekhaka rāmarātanabrahmamaṇagavaḍadesa0 |
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 148 found on f. 15v. This verse is followed by nine verses included in the critical apparatus as well as several not included. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 17 folia |
Dimension: | 9.7 x 21.3 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Numbered in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. |
Formula: | 1–17 |
Signatures: | vi0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio, and rāma appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on f. 1v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink on the right of f. 1r and the lower right of [[facs=f20v, locus=f. 17v]] reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 7 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted leftward in straight lines. |
Additions: |
Mistakes covered over with yellow, which has worn away in many places. Marginal and interlinear corrections and a few lengthy marginal additions. |
Color: | Mistakes are painted over in yellow. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Sunday, during the second tithi in the dark fortnight of the month of bhādrapada in the year 1879 of the saṁvat era in Kāśī by the brāhmaṇa Rāmarātana from Gavaḍadeśa. The date mentioned corresponds to Sunday, 4 August 1822. |
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 – Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |