Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2487
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:855

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:zAntiparvan gajendramokSaNa [=ratna 5/5]
Cover rubric:|| atha gajeMdramokSaprAraMbhaH ||
Incipit:f.<2r>
Explicit:f.<29r>
Final rubric:f.<29r30v> iti zrImanmahAbhArate zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM vaiyyAsikyAM zAMti parvaNi zaunakazatAnIkasaMvAde gajeMdramokSaNastavaH saMpUrNaH || ratne ||5|| samApto yaM paMcaratnaH || || iti gajeMdramokSasamAptaH ||
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:30
Foliation:30 leaves, foliated 1-30.
1-30
Collation:
Condition:
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow.

F. 29v has a few characters in what appears to be a South Indian script.

Decoration

History

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

Facsimile

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Transcription
||
atha gajeMdramokSaprAraMbhaH ||

f. 2r:

zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
atha gajeMdramokSaprArabhaH || zatA[ni](nI)ka uvAca ||
mayA hi devadevasya viSNor amitatejasaH ||
zrutAH saMbhUtayaH sarvA gada(ta)s tava suvrata ||1||

f. 29r:

gItA sahasraM nAmnAM ca stavarAja anusmRtiH ||
gajeMdramokSaNaM caiva paMcaratnAni bhArate ||159||
iti zrImanmahAbhArate zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM vaiyyAsikyAM zAMti parvaNi zaunakazatAnIkasaMvAde gajeMdramokSaNastavaH saMpUrNaH ||
ratne ||5||
samApto yaM paMcaratnaH ||

f. 30v:

||
iti gajeMdramokSasamAptaH ||

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 .