Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2334
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:913

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1v–22r
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra
Rubric: f. [0]r
.. śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbha ..
Incipit: f. 1v
saccidānaṁdarūpāya kṛṣṇāyākliṣṭakāriṇe ..
namo vedāṁtavedyāya gurave buddhisākṣiṇe ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
Explicit: f. 21rf. 21v
śrībhagavān uvāca ..
yo māṁ nāmasahasreṇa stotum ichati pāṁḍava
so ham ekena ślokena stuta eva na saṁśayaḥ ..134.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*635, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
namo stv anaṁtāya sahasramūrtaye
sahasrapādākṣiśirorubāhave ..
sahasranāmne puruṣāya śāśvate
sahasrakoṭīyugadhāriṇe namaḥ ..135.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*635, lines 5–8 ) (Jagatī)
Final rubric: f. 21v
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryasaṁhitāyāṁ anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharme yudhiṣṭhirabhīṣmasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇusahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
Final rubric: f. 22v
.. śrīviṣṇusahasranāmasamāptaḥ ..
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 132 found on f. 21r. This verse is followed by several verses, the last two of which, verse 134 found on f. 21rf. 21v and verse 135 found on f. 21v, do correspond to verses in the critical apparatus.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper
Extent:24 folia
Dimension:10.4 x 16 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left margin and lower right margin on the verso of each folio 1–21 and in the lower right margin on f. 22r.
   Formula:[0], 1–22, [23]
   Signatures:sa0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma0 appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio 1–21. The latter appears also on f. 22r.
Collation: the first two folios are attached; the rest are single folia.
Formula:0–1, 2, etc.
Condition:Very good with browned edges, cracked edges and a few water stains.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right side of f. [0]r and on the lower right of f. [23]v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted leftward in the same hand as Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2475 and Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2476.
Hand 2:Writes ru for , e.g. śruṇu on f. 3r, line 2, but ṛṣi on f. 3r, line 3. Some downward elbow style us, e.g. astu on f. 22r line 1. Similar hand to UPenn 2486.
Additions:

There are few marginal corrections. A very few mistakes are covered over with yellow.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, final rubric, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. A very few mistakes are covered over with yellow. Yellow is spilled on f. 18v.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

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 – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Record history

Revised: 5 February 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. [0]r     f. [0]r  
f. [0]v, f. 1r     f. [0]v  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. 21r     f. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v, f. 22r     f. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22v, f. [23]r     f. 22v  f. [23]r  
f. [23]v     f. [23]v  


Transcription (text structure)

.. śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbha ..
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
saccidānaṁdarūpāya kṛṣṇāyākliṣṭakāriṇe ..
namo vedāṁtavedyāya gurave buddhisākṣiṇe ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṁsārabaṁdhanāt ..
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ..2.. (Anuṣṭubh)
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca ..
śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ca sarvaśaḥ ..
yudhiṣṭhiraḥ śāṁtanavaṁ punar evābhyabhāṣata ..3.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 13.135.1 )
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viśveśvaram ajaṁ devaṁ jagataḥ prabhavāpyayaṁ ..
bhajaṁti ye puṣkarākṣaṁ na te yāṁti parābhavaṁ ..132.. ( MBh. 13.135.142 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
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śrībhagavān uvāca ..
yo māṁ nāmasahasreṇa stotum ichati pāṁḍava
so ham ekena ślokena stuta eva na saṁśayaḥ ..134.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*635, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
namo stv anaṁtāya sahasramūrtaye
sahasrapādākṣiśirorubāhave ..
sahasranāmne puruṣāya śāśvate
sahasrakoṭīyugadhāriṇe namaḥ ..135.. ( MBh. 13.135.142*635, lines 5–8 ) (Jagatī)
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryasaṁhitāyāṁ anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharme yudhiṣṭhirabhīṣmasaṁvāde śrīviṣṇusahasranāmastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
cha ..
śubhaṁ bhavat ..
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
.. śrīviṣṇusahasranāmasamāptaḥ ..