University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll 390, Item 491

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DS ID:

DS6911

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll 390, Item 491

Title:

Viṣṇusahasranāma

Scribe:

Rājaśrī Āpādikṣita Dātye

Date:

1831.

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 10 x 14 cm

Note:

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...
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
Non-Latin script record.
Dated śake 1753 śubhakraṃ nāma saṃvatsare śrāvaṇakṛṣṇa 4 maṃdavāsare (Saturday, 27 August, 1831) (f. 46v-47r).
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).
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.
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).

Keyword:

prayers (literary works)

epic literature

hymns

Manuscripts

dialogues

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Epic literature, Sanskrit

Bhīṣma (Hindu mythological character)

Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Vishnu (Hindu deity)

Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944995993503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3416t253/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania