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

Locus:ff. 1r–20v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Incipit: f. 1r:

yasya
smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate nama
s tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1..
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śru
tvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁ
tanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2..
Note:
MBh. 13.135.1
Explicit: f. 20r:

yajñeśācyuta go
viṁda mādhavānaṁta keśava ..
kṛṣṇa viṣṇo hṛṣīkeśa vā
sudeva namo stu te ..38..

rāma rāmeti rāmeti () mano
[rā]()me ..
sahasranāma tat tulyaṁ śrīrāmanāma varānane ..39..
Note:
MBh. 13.135.142*636, lines 7–8
Final rubric: f20r-f20v:
iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi uttamānuśāsane [dha] dānadharmo
padeśe mokṣadharme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇo
r divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
Colophon:None
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 o~ 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
Dimension:9.1 x 18.3 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Binding: Unbound.
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

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v,f. 6rf. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v,f. 8rf. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v,f. 10rf. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v,f. 11rf. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v,f. 12rf. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v,f. 13rf. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v,f. 14rf. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v,f. 15rf. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v,f. 16rf. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v,f. 17rf. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v,f. 18rf. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v,f. 19rf. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v,f. 20rf. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20vf. 20v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: śrīgurubhyo namaḥ .. śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ .. yasya
Line 2: smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt .. vimucyate nama
Line 3: s tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1..
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca .. śru
Line 4: tvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ .. yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁ
Line 5: tanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. [
f.19r
Line 2: viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāpya
Line 3: yaṁ .. bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavaṁ ..29..

na
Line 4: te yāṁti parābhavoṁ
nama iti ..

[
f.20r
Line 1: yajñeśācyuta go
Line 4: viṁda mādhavānaṁta keśava .. kṛṣṇa viṣṇo hṛṣīkeśa vā
Line 5: sudeva namo stu te ..38..
rāma rāmeti rāmeti () mano
Line 6: [rā]()me .. sahasranāma tat tulyaṁ śrīrāmanāma varānane ..39..
Line 7:
iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi uttamānuśāsane [dha] dānadharmo
f.20v
Line 1: padeśe mokṣadharme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇo
Line 2: r divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ .. śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇa
Line 3: m astu .. .. śrīkāśīvi!śva!<śve>śvaro vijayate .. ..
Record revised:3 February 2012