Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2412
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:914

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–16v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Cover rubric: f. 1r
.. viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbha .. patreṁ ..16..
Incipit: f. 1v
stotrāṇāṁ paramaṁ stotraṁ viṣṇor nāmasahasrakaṁ ..
hitvā stotrasahasrāṇi paṭhanīyaṁ mahāmune ..1.. ... (Anuṣṭubh)
Explicit: f. 16v
namo stv anaṁtāya sahasramūrtaye
sahasrapādākṣiśirorubāhave ..
sahasranāmne puruṣāya śāśvate
sahasrakoṭīyugadhāriṇe namaḥ ..25.. ( Mbh. 13.135.142*635, lines 5–8 ) (Jagatī)
Final rubric: f. 16v
iti śrīmahābharate śatasahasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyāṁ anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharmottamānuśāsane śrīvi!rṣṇā!<ṣṇor> divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
Colophon: f. 16v
hastākṣiraprajñānāṁ śramacaraṇā[khīṁ](diṁ) brahmāśrame[na](ṇa) likhi[te](taṁ) ..
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. This manuscript includes a six-verse introduction prior to the first verse of the text proper found on f. 2r. The first verse of the text of the critical edition corresponds to verse 2. The last verse of the text of the critical edition corresponds to verse 122 found on f. 16rf. 16v. This verse is followed by several verses, the last of which, verse 125 found on f. 16v, corresponds to one in the critical apparatus.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper
Extent:16 folia
Dimension:10.5 x 23.5 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–16
   Signatures:vi0 sa0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio.
Collation: Paired and single folios.
Formula:1–2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7–8, 9, 10–11, 12, 13, 14–15, 16
Condition:Very good with a few broken edges.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in blue ink on the right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 6–8 lines per page. There are seven lines on most pages, but 6 on f. 3r, and 8 on f. 4v and f. 16v.

Hands

Additions:

Margininal additions appear on f. 4v and f. 7r.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes are covered over with white or yellow. Orange is rubbed over invocations, introduction of speakers, numbers, double daṇḍas and some other passages, e.g. f. 3r and f. 14v.

History

Origin:The name of the scribe is obscured by corrections in the colophon on f. 16v, which contains no other significant information. 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 – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Record history

Revised: 6 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. 16v  


Transcription (text structure)

.. śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
.. cha .. ..

.. viṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbha .. patreṁ ..16..

Intro:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
śrīgurubhyo namaḥ ..
śrīgopālāya namaḥ ..
hariḥ õ ..
stotrāṇāṁ paramaṁ stotraṁ viṣṇor nāmasahasrakaṁ ..
hitvā stotrasahasrāṇi paṭhanīyaṁ mahāmune ..1.. ... (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣena pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..2.. ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
<...>
<...>
viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāvyayaṁ ..
bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavaṁ ..22.. ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
<...>
namo stv anaṁtāya sahasramūrtaye
sahasrapādākṣiśirorubāhave ..
sahasranāmne puruṣāya śāśvate
sahasrakoṭīyugadhāriṇe namaḥ ..25.. ( Mbh. 13.135.142*635, lines 5–8 ) (Jagatī)
iti śrīmahābharate śatasahasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāśikyāṁ anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharmottamānuśāsane śrīvi!rṣṇā!<ṣṇor> divyasahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
śri kṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
.. cha ..
hastākṣiraprajñānāṁ śramacaraṇā[khīṁ](diṁ) brahmāśrame[na](ṇa) likhi[te](taṁ) ..
śubhaṁ bhavatu ..
śrīnārāyaṇa ..