Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2462
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:868

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:zAntiparvan stavarAja [= ratna 3]
Cover rubric:|| atha bhISmastavarAja | prAraMbhaH ||
Incipit:f.<2r>
Explicit:f.<21v>
Final rubric:f.<21v> iti zrImahAbhArate zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM zAMtiparvaNi rAjadharmeSu bhISmastavarAjaH saMpUrNaH || || ratna ||3||
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Watermark:
Extent:22
Foliation:22 leaves, foliated 1-22.
1-22
Collation:
Condition:Tear on f. 18, text not affected.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over.

Decoration

History

Color:Invocation, title, colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers.
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 -- Stavarāja.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription
||
atha bhISmastavarAja |
prAraMbhaH ||

f. 2r:

zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
>atha bhISmastavarAjaprAraMbhaH || janme
Note: [TK] this is as seen.
jaya uvAca ||
zaratalpe zayAnas tu [...] (MBh. 12.047.001)

f. 21v:

zuklapakSe divA bhUmau gaMgAyAM cottarAyaNe ||
dhanyAs tAta mariSyaMti hRdayasthe janArddane ||26
Note: 126
||
stavarAjaH samApto yaM [...] ||127|| || (crit. sAnti star (After 12.047.065, M1.3 ins. )
iti zrImahAbhArate zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM zAMtiparvaNi rAjadharmeSu bhISmastavarAjaH saMpUrNaH ||
||
ratna ||3||

zrIkRSNArpaNam astu ||
zrIzubhaM bhavatu ||
|| cha ||

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 .