Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2330
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:828

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–16v (complete)
Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
.. śrīviṣṇusahasranāmāvaliprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Final rubric: f. 16v:
.. .. iti viṣṇusahasranāmāvali samāptaḥ .. ..
Colophon: f. 16v:
.. śake 1720 kālayuktasaṁvatsare āṣāḍhavadyatrayodaśyāṁ ta
ddine dāḍekaropanāmakabhāskarena likhitaṁ ..
Note:

The Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali, of which this manuscript is a witness, reworks the core of the verse Viṣṇusahasranāman which is included in the Anuśāsanaparvan in the critical edition of the Mahābhārata at MBh. 13.135.1–142. The core reworked consists of MBh. 13.135.14–120. Each name of Viṣṇu is transposed to the dative case and made the core of a mantra beginning with the auspicious syllable and ending with the word namas. This manuscript drops the syllable everywhere but in the first mantra and drops or abbreviates namas everywhere but in the first and last.

This manuscript includes a preface, consisting of a Nyāsa and Dhyāna very similar to the preface found in popular editions of the Bhagavadgītā, such as the Gītā Press edition, which is not included in the critical text of the Mahābhārata and most of which is also absent from the critical apparatus.

Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

   Work 1.1

   Locus:ff. 1v–2v (complete)
   Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali Preface
   Incipit: f. 1v:

asya śrīviṣṇor divyasahasra
nāmamaṁtrāṇāṁ vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ paramātmā devatā a
nuṣṭup chaṁdaḥ amṛtāṁśūdbhavo bhānur iti bījaṁ devakī
naṁdaneti śaktiḥ śaṁkhabhṛnnaṁdakīti kilakaṁ .. śā
rṅadhanvā gadādhareti astraṁ . [

   Explicit: f2r-f2v:

śāṁtākāraṁ bhujagaśayanaṁ padmanābhaṁ sureśaṁ viśvādhāraṁ
gaganasadṛśaṁ meghavarṇaṁ śubhāṁgaṁ ..
lakṣmīkāṁtaṁ kamala
nayanaṁ yo!ga!<gi>bhir dhyānagamyaṁ vaṁde viṣṇuṁ bhavabhayaharaṁ sarva
lokaikanāthaṁ ..1..
   Final rubric: f. 2v:
iti dhyānaṁ ..
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. 2v–16v (complete)
   Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
   Title:Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali
   Incipit: f. 2v:

õ viśvasmai na
maḥ . viṣṇave na0 vaṣaṭkārāya0 [
õ bhūta
bhāvanāya n0

   Explicit: f. 16v:

śaṁkhabhṛte na0 naṁdakine0
cakriṇe0 śārṅadhanvane0 gadādharāya0 rathāṁgapā
ṇaye0 akṣobhyāya0 sarvapraharaṇāyudhāya namaḥ ..
..1000..

   Final rubric: f. 16v:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ
saṁhitāyāṁ viṣṇor divyasahasranāmāvaḷistotraṁ
saṁpūrṇam astu ..
   Colophon:None

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper
Extent:16
Dimension:11 x 15 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Good with browned and cracked edges.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 9–10 lines per page.

Hands

Additions:

There are a few marginal corrections, e.g. on f. 12r, f. 16r, and corrections made by covering errors with yellow pigment.

Decoration

Color:Yellow pigment used for corrections.

History

Origin:The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the 13th tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of āṣāḍha in the year 1720, called kālayukta, of the śaka era, which corresponds to Wednesday, 11 July 1798 A.D. by Dāḍekara Bhāskara.
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 – Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali.
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. 16vf. 16v  

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  

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Whole imageIndividual pages
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. 16vf. 16v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: .. śrīviṣṇusahasranāmāvaliprāraṁbhaḥ ..
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..

asya śrīviṣṇor divyasahasra
Line 2: nāmamaṁtrāṇāṁ vedavyāsa ṛṣiḥ paramātmā devatā a
Line 3: nuṣṭup chaṁdaḥ amṛtāṁśūdbhavo bhānur iti bījaṁ devakī
Line 4: naṁdaneti śaktiḥ śaṁkhabhṛnnaṁdakīti kilakaṁ .. śā
Line 5: rṅadhanvā gadādhareti astraṁ . [

[
f.2r
Line 8: śāṁtākāraṁ bhujagaśayanaṁ padmanābhaṁ sureśaṁ viśvādhāraṁ
Line 9: gaganasadṛśaṁ meghavarṇaṁ śubhāṁgaṁ .. lakṣmīkāṁtaṁ kamala
f.2v
Line 10: nayanaṁ yo!ga!<gi>bhir dhyānagamyaṁ vaṁde viṣṇuṁ bhavabhayaharaṁ sarva
Line 1: lokaikanāthaṁ ..1..
iti dhyānaṁ ..

õ viśvasmai na
Line 2: maḥ . viṣṇave na0 vaṣaṭkārāya0 [
Line 3: õ bhūta
Line 4: bhāvanāya n0


VSNProse 1–9
MBh. 13.135.14 [
f.16r
Line 9:

annādāya0 [
f.16v
Line 1: samagāyanāya0 devakīnaṁdanāya0 sraṣṭre na0 kṣi
Line 2: tīśāya0 pāpanāśanāya0


VSNProse 992–1000
MBh. 13.135.119

śaṁkhabhṛte na0 naṁdakine0
Line 3: cakriṇe0 śārṅadhanvane0 gadādharāya0 rathāṁgapā
Line 4: ṇaye0 akṣobhyāya0 sarvapraharaṇāyudhāya namaḥ ..
Line 5: ..1000..


VSNProse 1001–1008
MBh. 13.135.120
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ
Line 6: saṁhitāyāṁ viṣṇor divyasahasranāmāvaḷistotraṁ
Line 7: saṁpūrṇam astu .. .. śrīmahāviṣṇvārpaṇam astu ..
Line 8: .. .. iti viṣṇusahasranāmāvali samāptaḥ .. .. .. śake 1720 kālayuktasaṁvatsare āṣāḍhavadyatrayodaśyāṁ ta
Line 9: ddine dāḍekaropanāmakabhāskarena likhitaṁ ..
Record revised:21 February 2012