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Title

Viṣṇusahasranāma
विष्णुसहस्रनाम

Other related names

• Rājaśrī Āpādikṣita Dātye, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 491
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944995993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/373873797
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4499599

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

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

• 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.
   

Extent

1 item (47 leaves) : 10 x 14 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

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).

Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology)
• Bhīṣma (Hindu mythology)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Epic literature, Sanskrit

Genres

• Hymns
• Prayers
• Epics
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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