Viṣṇusahasranāma, 1700s.
विष्णुसहस्रनाम

Format:

Manuscript

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 (36 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 18 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2222

Place of Publication:

1700s.

१७००-१७९९.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text praises the thousand names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu, which 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. Not part of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata. Lacks final folio.

Notes:

Colophon: iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vayyāśavayāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi (f. 36v).

Double daṇḍas in red. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers. First folio has been damaged and repaired.

Small holes burnt in manuscript (f. 29-30) likely caused from incense; black smudges near the burnt hole (f. 29v).

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 891 (UP 2222).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2222

OCLC:

373813993