Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 390 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 908 |
Locus: | ff. 1v–30v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r
atha śrīviṣṇusahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
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 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 29v–f. 30r
āloḍya sarvaśāstrāṇi vicāryaivaṁ punaḥ punaḥ .. ida[ṁ]m ekaṁ suniṣpannaṁ dhyeyo nārāyaṇaḥ sadā ..40.. ( MBh. 13.124, Appendix I, no. 13, lines 20–21 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 30r
.. iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vayyāsikyām anuśāsanike parvaṇi bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasa<ṁ>vāde śrīviṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṁ sa<ṁ>pūrṇaṁ .. |
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 122 found on f. 26v–f. 27r. The critical edition was not available to Poleman who places the Viṣṇusahasranāman in the Śāntiparvan writing, ‘Although this text is assigned to the Anuśāsanikaparva by the copyist, it is actually from the Śāntiparva.’ |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | White European paper with chain lines. |
Watermark: | Part of a watermark emblem is visible on f. 3, f. 4–not enough to make it out fully. Bits and pieces are visible on other folios as well. On f. 5 is 1880 with the bottom cut off. F. 6 has half of some letters, but they are difficult to make out. |
Extent: | 30 folia |
Dimension: | 10.3 x 15.2 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. |
Formula: | 1–30 |
Signatures: | vi0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio. On f. 30v vi0 sa0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin and rāma appears above the folio number in the lower left margin. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good with water stains. The last folio (f. 30r, f. 30v) has broken edges. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink on the lower right of f. 1r and f. 17v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 7 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written with a reed pen in clear, bold, regular characters tilted slightly rightward in wavy lines. |
Additions: |
None. |
Color: | Colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in red appears on f. 1r. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |