Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2579
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:898

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:zAntiparvan viSNusahasranAmastotra
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1r>
Explicit:f.<8r>
Final rubric:f.<8v> iti zrImahAbhArate zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM sAMtiparvaNi utamAnuzAsane dA nazyati ||163|| iti zrI mahAbhArate zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM sAMparvaNi uttamAnuzAsane dAnadharmottare || || zrIviSNur nAma sahasraM saMpUrNaM samAptaM ||
Colophon:f.<9r> zrIkRSNabhallApakSAmAsakArthikha saSTi tAreki zanivArAdina || || zrInRsiMharu khaDAmadhye litaM haridAsa* vaiSNava hari || zrIrAmAlAla | tri laskari hari dasAzrI || || phaDhanArti zrIr gapatirasAji || zrIviSNuMr nAmAH sahasraM saMpUrNaM ||
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:European paper, French. Chain lines. Blue.
Watermark:The watermark on f. 9 reads: Brut Jeune's
Extent:9
Foliation:9 leaves, foliated 1-9.
1-9
Collation:
Condition:
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Yellow pigment used for erasing text. Blank ink also used to erase. Marginalia in both red and black ink by other hands.

Decoration

History

Color:daNDas written in red. Yellow pigment used for erasing text. Blank ink also used to erase. Marginalia in both red and black ink by other hands.
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 -- Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:

zrImate rAmAnujAya namaH ||
oM yasya smeraNamAtreNa janmasaMsAravaMdhanAt ||
vimucyate namas tasmai viSNave prabhaviSNave ||1||
namaH samastabhUtAnAm AdibhUtAyabhUbhRte ||
anekarUparUpAya viSNave prabhaviSNave ||2|| vaisaMpAyana uvAca
zrutvA dhArmAny azeSeNa [...] (MBh. 13.135.001)

f. 8r:

[...] zahasrakoTiyugadhAriNe namaH ||150|| (Mbh. 13*0635_08)
namaH kamalanAbhAya namas te jalazAyine ||
namas te [...]
nAro muktim avApnoti cakrapANer vaco yathA ||
brahmahatyAdikaM pApa sarvapApaM vinazyati 163
8v-9r iti zrImahAbhArate zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM sAMtiparvaNi utamAnuzAsane dA
Note: [TK] eye slipped
nazyati
Note: [TK]from verse
||163||
iti zrI mahAbhArate zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM sAM<ti>parvaNi uttamAnuzAsane dAnadharmottare ||
||
zrIviSNur nAma sahasraM saMpUrNaM samAptaM ||
cha ||

f. 9r zrIkRSNabhallApakSAmAsakArthikha saSTi tAreki zanivArAdina ||
||
zrInRsiMha
Note: hna
ru
Note: ? or just erased
khaDAmadhye li<khi>taM haridAsa* vaiSNava hari ||
zrIrAmAlAla |
tri
Note: ? uncear, maybe erased
laskari hari dasAzrI ||
||
phaDhanArti zrIr ga<Na>patirasAji ||
zrIviSNuMr nAmAH sahasraM saMpUrNaM ||
zrI rAmA rAmA rAmA rAmA rAmA rAmA

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 .