Details

Standardized Title:

Mahābhārata. Anuśāsanaparva. Selections.

Subjects:

Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Epic literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

A list of 1,000 names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu from the Mahābhārata (Anuśāsanaparva) for use in daily prayer and recitation.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 16-17 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated [1], 2, [3-4], upper left and lower right (f. 2v).
Colophon: iti śrī mahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyā[ṃ] vaiṣya[thya]kyāṃ anuśāsane danidharme bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṃvāde viṣṇordivyasahasranāmāvalisaṃpūrṇam abhavat (f. 3r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
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 901 (UP 2314).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2314

OCLC:

761737571