Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:388
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:887

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–20v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Rubric: f. 1r
śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 1r
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. 20r
yajñeśācyuta goviṁda mādhavānaṁta keśava ..
kṛṣṇa viṣṇo hṛṣīkeśa vāsudeva namo stu te ..38.. (Anuṣṭubh)
rāma rāmeti rāmeti (rame rāme) mano[rā](ra)me ..
sahasranāma tat tulyaṁ śrīrāmanāma varānane ..39.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 7–8 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 20rf. 20v
iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi uttamānuśāsane [dha] dānadharmopadeśe mokṣadharme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
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 129 found on f. 19r. Its last quarter is repeated, terminated in the auspicious syllable and followed by nama iti, indicating the end of the original text. 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:9.1 x 18.3 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio and on f. 15r as well. The number on f. 7vf. 8v corrected from original 6–7.
   Formula:1–20
   Signatures:vi0, on f. 6v, f. 11vf. 12v, f. 16vf. 20v, śrīvi0, appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and sa0 appears in the upper right margin on the verso of each folio.
Collation: Single folia
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in blue ink on the lower right of f. 20v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 20 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes written over.

Decoration

Color:Folios 1–12 colored yellow and written in black ink. Folios 13–20 written in brown ink.

History

Origin: 18–
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 – 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Record history

Revised: 3 February 2012

Facsimile  (work )

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


Transcription (text structure)

śrīgurubhyo namaḥ ..

śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
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 )
<...>
viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāpyayaṁ ..
bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavaṁ ..29.. ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
na te yāṁti parābhavoṁ
nama iti ..
<...>
yajñeśācyuta goviṁda mādhavānaṁta keśava ..
kṛṣṇa viṣṇo hṛṣīkeśa vāsudeva namo stu te ..38.. (Anuṣṭubh)
rāma rāmeti rāmeti (rame rāme) mano[rā](ra)me ..
sahasranāma tat tulyaṁ śrīrāmanāma varānane ..39.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 7–8 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi uttamānuśāsane [dha] dānadharmopadeśe mokṣadharme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu .. ..
śrīkāśīvi!śva!<śve>śvaro vijayate .. ..