Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:491
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:888

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Ff. [0], 1-24 are on country-made paper. The remainder on European paper with chain lines. Same hand. F. 31 is on country-made paper. So also ff. 34-35. So also ff. 44-45.
Watermark:Watermark on ff. 27-28 (which are connected). It is part of a shield, inside is a bird (maybe an eagle). Ff. 29-30 has a watermark also: a seal with a band across it going downwards. Beneath is written "G M". Watermark also on ff. 36-37 and ff.: Bottom of a seal with the words Gior' Magnani
Extent:48
Dimension:9.5 x 13.9 cm
Foliation:48 leaves, foliated [0], 1-47
formula: [0], 1-47
Condition:The corners on the left side of the folio have been unevenly cut off. [TK: Correction to DN: not *cut off*, but rather *broken off*.]
Layout:Written in 5 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Part of invocation, colophons, and part of final colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.

History

Origin:rAja zrI ApAdikSita dAtye 1831-08-27
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

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Transcription

f. [0]r:
atha viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṃbhaḥ
f. 1r:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||
śrīgurucaraṇāraviṃdābhyāṃ namaḥ ||
om ||
śrīvedavyāsāya namaḥ || yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṃsārabaṃdhanāt ||
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||1||
f. 1v:
namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhūbhṛte ||
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||2|| vaiśaṃpāyana u0 śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa
(13.135.001a)
f. 46r:
naro muktim avāpnoti cakrapāṇer vaco yathā ||
brahmahatyādikaṃ pāpaṃ vinaśyati ||63
Note: 163
|| iti śrīmahābhārate śata[sa](hasr[ya]( saṃhitā
f. 46v:
yāṃ vaiyā[si](kyāṃ
Note: [TK] starting here the original red has been covered with new text in black
anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharmottare bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhi( śrī(dviṣṇor dīvyasahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu || || yādṛśaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā ||
yadi śuddham aśuddhaṃ vā mama doṣo na vidyate ||3|| śake 1753
f. 47r:
śubhakraṃ nāma saṃvatsare śrāvaṇakṛṣṇa 4 maṃdavāsare idaṃ pustakaṃ rāja śrī āpādikṣita dātye īty upanāma vāstavya kheḍa bhīmātīra prāṃta puṇe
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010