Viṣṇusahasranāma, 1831.
विष्णुसहस्रनाम

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Rājaśrī Āpādikṣita Dātye, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Mahābhārata. Śāntiparva. Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Vishnu.

Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).

Bhīṣma (Hindu mythological character).

Bhīṣma.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Epic literature, Sanskrit.

Genre:

hymns

prayers (compositions)

epic literature

dialogues

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (47 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 14 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 491

Place of Publication:

1831.

१८३१.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Summary:

Text praises the thousand names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu and is attributed to the epic Mahābhārata, but has circulated as an independent devotional text used in private or public meditation and prayer. Presented as a discourse between the legendary warriors Bhīṣma and king Yudhiṣṭhira. Text is not part of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata.

Notes:

Colophon: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitā yāṃ vaiyāsikyāṃ anuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharmottare bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhi[rasaṃvāde] śrī[ma]dviṣṇor dīvyasahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // yādṛśaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā // yadi śuddham aśuddhaṃ vā mama doṣo na vidyate // 3 // śake 1753 śubhakraṃ nāma saṃvatsare śrāvaṇakṛṣṇa 4 maṃdavāsare idaṃ pustakaṃ rājaśrī āpādikṣitadātye īty upanāma vāstavya kheḍa bhīmātīra prāṃta puṇe // (f. 46v-47r).

Dated śake 1753 śubhakraṃ nāma saṃvatsare śrāvaṇakṛṣṇa 4 maṃdavāsare (Saturday, 27 August, 1831) (f. 46v-47r).

Scribe is Rājaśrī Āpādikṣita Dātye who settled in Khed on the bank of the Bhīmā river, at the border with the city of Pune in the state of Maharashtra (f. 47r).

Part of invocation, colophons, and part of final colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow or blacked out. The corners on the left side of the folio have been unevenly cut off.

Some of the manuscript is written on European paper (f. 25-47) and some of these leaves bear a watermark of a shield inside of a bird (possibly an eagle) (f. 27-28).

Written in 5 lines per leaf.

Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 888 (UP 491).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 491

OCLC:

373876405