Details

Standardized Title:

Mahābhārata. Śāntiparva. Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra.

Subjects:

Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).
Bhīṣma (Hindu mythological character).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Epic literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Hymns.
Prayers.
Epics.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

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