Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2247
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:835

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhISmaparvan
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v>
Explicit:f.<323v>
Final rubric:f.<323v324v> iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasrasaMhitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM bhISmaparva samAptam iti [...] asyAnaMtaraM droNaparva bhaviSyati || || asyAyam AdyazlokaH || || [...???] ||8|| iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasryAM saMhitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM bhISmaparva samAptam iti || || iti zrImahAbhArate bhISmaparva saMpUrNasamAptaH || || chaH ||
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:nIlakaRWaBawwa
Title:
Part:bhISmaparvan
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v> zrIlakSmaNAryagurave jaDajaMtucakSur baMdhApanodanam Rte na hi rocate 'nyat || pAdAvane janamukhA 'pacitis tatas tu zrIbhISmaparvaNi dadhya hi bhAvadIpaM || pUrvasmin parvaNi bhagavadbhaktaH saty api sAmarthyaH satyaM pAlayati aizvaryaM ca na prakAzayati kAle prApte 'nyasmai upakAroti ceti pAMDavAcArapradarzanavyAjena darzitaM tam evaM bhUtaM svayaM bhagavAn hitopadeze nAnugRhNAti tadIyAM pratijJAM ca pratijJAM ca svaprati jJAvAdhe naiva satyAM karotIty arjuno padezena bhISmavadhArthaM bhagavataH zAstradhAraNena ca darzayiSyan bhISmaparvArama te || pUrvatra yuddhodyogaM zrutvA yuddhaM zrotu kAmo janamejaya uvAca kathaM yuyudhire vIrA iti ||1||
Explicit:f.<204v> tamaH mohaM || pramuktaM hastAd galitaM aMkuzAdikaM yasya ||39||40|| 51||
Final rubric:f.<323v> ||39|| || iti zrImatpavAkyapramANam aryAdAdhuraM dharacaturdharavaMzAvataMsazrIgoviMdasUrisUnoH zrInIlakaNThasya kRtau bhAratabhAvedIpe bhISmaparvArthaprakAzazatoparitRyaviMzo dhyAyaH || ||123|| || zrIbhISmaparvasaMpUrNasamAptaH ||
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:324
Foliation:324 leaves, foliated 1-324; f. 1r blank; f. 102 misnumbered 103 in lower-right corner numbering (correct in upper-left corner numbering).
1-324
Collation:
Condition:
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes written over very neatly.

Decoration

History

Color:Orange powder rubbed in over invocations, colophons, numbers, double daṇḍas, and the introduction of speakers.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: 17--
Provenance:
Acquisition: (David Nelson (2000: 203)) describes the acquisition of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania Library as follows: “

The University of Pennsylvania Library possesses a collection of almost 3,300 Indic manuscripts, the largest such collection in the Western hemisphere. While the vast majority of these manuscripts are from India, there are also a number of manuscripts from Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tibet.

Some of the manuscripts had been acquired in chance fashion by the Library and the University Museum before 1930, but in that year, at the request of Professor W. Norman Brown (1892-1975), Provost Josiah Penniman provided a sum of money to purchase Indic manuscripts. Shortly thereafter he obtained a donation from the late Mr. John Gribbel. Substantial contributions from Dr. Charles W. Burr, the Faculty Research Fund, and the Cotton Fund soon followed. The bulk of the manuscripts are the result of purchases made using these funds in India, between 1930 and 1935, under the direction of Professor W. Norman Brown.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata -- Bhagavadgītā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription mū:


f. 1v:

||
zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
||
nArAyaNaM namaskRtya naraM caiva narottamaM ||
devIM sarasvatIM caiva tato jayam udIrayet ||1|| janamejaya uvAca ||
kathaM yuyudhire vIrAH [...] (MBh. 06.001.001a) Commentary:


f. 1v:

zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
||
zrIlakSmaNAryagurave jaDajaMtucakSur baMdhApanodanam Rte na hi rocate 'nyat ||
pAdAvane janamukhA 'pacitis tatas tu zrIbhISmaparvaNi (vi)dadhya hi bhAvadIpaM ||
pUrvasmin parvaNi bhagavadbhaktaH saty api sAmarthyaH satyaM pAlayati aizvaryaM ca na prakAzayati kAle prApte 'nyasmai upakAroti ceti pAMDavAcArapradarzanavyAjena darzitaM tam evaM bhUtaM svayaM bhagavAn hitopadeze nAnugRhNAti tadIyAM pratijJAM ca pratijJAM ca svaprati jJAvAdhe naiva satyAM karotIty arjuno padezena bhISmavadhArthaM bhagavataH zAstradhAraNena ca darzayiSyan bhISmaparvArama te ||
pUrvatra yuddhodyogaM zrutvA yuddhaM zrotu kAmo janamejaya uvAca kathaM yuyudhire vIrA iti ||1|| mū:


f. 323v:

[...] prAyAt tava sutaM prati ||39|| || (Mbh. bhISma 117.34d (numbered 39):)
iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasrasaMhitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM bhISmaparvasamAptam
iti zubhaMm astu ||
||
zrIkRSNaparamAtmane namaH ||
asyAnaMtaraM droNaparva bhaviSyati ||
||
asyAyam AdyazlokaH ||
||
janamejaya uvAca || ||
tam apratimasatvaujobalavIryaparAkramaM ||
[...] vAcakAya tato dadyAd gAMsu varNAdisaMyutAM ||
kAMsya pAtraM tato deyaM tAmrapAtraM tathaiva ca ||
atraM bahuvidhaM deyaM zayanAnyAsanAni ca ||9|| || ||
iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasryAM saMhitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM bhISmaparva samAptam iti ||
||
yAdRzam iti nyAyAn na me doSaH ||
||
saMbhUSyaM sadayatyavat parakarAd rakSaM ca sUkSetravat
saMzodhyaM vraNitAMgavat pratidinaM vIkSyaM ca sanmitravat ||
badhyaM vadhyavad azlathaM na ca havismaryaM harer nnAmavan
naivaM sId1ati pustakaM kila kadApy etad guNAM vaca ||1|| ||
zrIrAmakRSNaparamAtmane namaH ||
||
chaH ||
||
zrIgopIjanavallabhAya namaH ||
chaH ||
||
chaH ||

f. 324v:

iti zrImahAbhArate bhISmaparva saMpUrNasamAptaH ||
||
chaH || Commentary:


f. 204v:

tamaH mohaM ||
pramuktaM hastAd galitaM aMkuzAdikaM yasya ||39||40||

Note: space
51 ||

Note: [TK] probably means this covers commentary on 39-51



f. 323v:

Note: nothing prior to this
||39||
||
iti zrImatpa<da>vAkyapramANam aryAdAdhuraM dharacaturdharavaMzAvataMsazrIgoviMdasUrisUnoH zrInIlakaNThasya kRtau bhAratabhAvedIpe bhISmaparvArthaprakAzazatoparitRyaviMzo dhyAyaH ||
||123||
||
zrIbhISmaparvasaMpUrNasamAptaH ||

Changes

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Matthias AhlbornSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in Toke Knudsen's OriginalData.txt file and data in mbh_bhp.xml collected by David Nelson.
Peter M. Scharf???date mo.??? 2010edited the original encoding .