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 (complete)

Locus:ff. [1]r-20v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Rubric: f. [1]r
.. viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. [1]v
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
Explicit: f. 18vf. 19r
eṣa niḥṣkaṁṭakaḥ paṁthā yatra saṁpūjyate hariḥ
kupathaṁ taṁ vijānīyād goviṁdarahitāgamā ..26.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*637, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. [19]r
itī śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśakyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi dānadharme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde viṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
Colophon: f. [19]r
śake 1733 .. prajāpati nāma saṁvatsare .. kārtikakṛṣṇatṛtīyā bhānuvāsare taddine idaṁ pustakaṁ samāptaṁ .. ..
Final rubric: f. 20v
iti viṣṇusahasranāma samāptaṁ
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. 18rf. 18v. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which, verse 126 found on f. 18vf. 19r concludes the text and does correspond to one in the critical apparatus. The final rubric of this manuscript situates the Viṣṇusahasranāman in the Śāntiparvan rather than in the Anuśāsanaparvan.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper
Extent:20 folia
Dimension:12 x 18 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio except f. 1v and f. 19v . The f. 20v is numbered only in the lower right margin. Two pages, f. 19v and f. 20r , are blank.
   Formula:[1], 2–18, [19], 20
   Signatures:vi0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each numbered folio except f. 9v which is missing both, and f. 20v, which is numbered only in the lower right margin.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:Good with browned edges and broken corners.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the lower right of f. 20v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
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

Record history

Revised: 5 February 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. [1]r     f. [1]r  
f. [1]v, f. 2r     f. [1]v  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. [19]r     f. 18v  f. [19]r  
f. [19]v, f. 20r     f. [19]v  f. 20r  
f. 20v     f. 20v  


Transcription (text structure)

.. viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. ..
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
<...>
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viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāvyayaṁ
bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavam ..22.. ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
<...>
eṣa niḥṣkaṁṭakaḥ paṁthā yatra saṁpūjyate hariḥ
kupathaṁ taṁ vijānīyād goviṁdarahitāgamā ..26.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*637, lines 5–6 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
itī śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśakyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi dānadharme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde viṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
śrīrāmacaṁdrārpaṇam astu ..
śake 1733 .. prajāpati nāma saṁvatsare .. kārtikakṛṣṇatṛtīyā bhānuvāsare taddine idaṁ pustakaṁ samāptaṁ .. ..
śrīrāmacaṁdra .. ..
iti viṣṇusahasranāma samāptaṁ