Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2231
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:918

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:azvamedhaparvan uttaragItA
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1r>
Explicit:f.<18v>
Final rubric:f.<19r> iti zrImanmahAbhArate zatasahasrikAyAM vayyazikyA azvamedhaparvaNI sUpaniSatsu brahmavidyAyAM zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde uttaragItAyAM tRtIyo dhyAyaH ||3||
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:19
Foliation:19 leaves, foliated 1-19.
1-19
Collation:
Condition:
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over. A few marginal corrections.

Decoration

History

Color:Double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over. Orange powder rubbed in over colophons, introductions of speakers, and numbers. A few marginal corrections. Drawing, in red ink, of Gaṇeśa on folio 1 recto.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: 18--
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 -- Uttaragītā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:

atha dhyAnaM ||
paraM parasmAt prakRtter anAdim ekaM viziSTabahudhA guhAsu ||
sarvAlayasaMrvajagannivAsatvAm eva viSNuM zaraNaM prapadye ||1||
Note: [TK] this is followed by another verse, then:
arjuna uvAca ||
yed akaM niSkalaM brahma [...] ( MBh. 06.003A.001-002 = 06.003B.001-002)

f. 18v:

[...] sarvaciMtA vinirmuktaM nizcitaM vimalaM bhavet ||
sa yogI brahmanirvANa labhatenAtra saMzayaH ||32||
iti hariH oM tatsad (Mbh. {verse and preceding ones not in crit.})
iti zrImanmahAbhArate zatasahasrikAyAM vayyazikyA azvamedhaparvaNI sUpaniSatsu brahmavidyAyAM zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde uttaragItAyAM tRtIyo dhyAyaH ||3||
zrIrAmAya namaH || zrIkRSNAya namaH || ||
zrI kAzIvizvesvarAya namaH ||

Changes

PersonDateChange
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 .