Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2370
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:966

Work 1 (complete)

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Colophon:
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Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
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Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:87
Foliation:
1-87
Collation:
Condition:excellent
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Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with white, or crossed through with black blocked out with black or written over. Marginal corrections.

Decoration

History

Color:Double daNDas from folios 38-77 verso in red. Mistakes covered over with white, or crossed through with black blocked out with black or written over. Orange powder rubbed in over colophons, numbers, introductions of speakers, some phrases, and some syllables.
Border:??????
Illustration:??????.???
Origin: "not given" saMvat 1814; zaka 1779
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.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata ()

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Transcription
zrIgaNezAyanamaH ||
oM namo bhagavatevAsudevAya ||
asya zrIbhaga<va>dgItA(mA)lAmaMtrasya ||
zrIbhagavAn vedavyAsaRSiH ||
anuSTubchaMdaH ||
zrIkRSNaparamAtmAdevatA ||
azocyAnan vazocastvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASaseti bIjaM ||
[...]

f. 2r:

dhyAnAvasthita tad gatena manasA pazayaMti yaM yogino
yasyAMtaM na viduH surAsuragaNA devAya tasmai namaH || parvan 6:
aDyAya 23:
Commentary:

||
athabhagavatsubodhinITIkAgItAprAraMbhaH ||

f. 2v:

zeSAzeSamukhavyAkhyAcAturyaM tv ekavatkrutaH ||
[...] aDyAya 40:
Commentary:


f. 87r:

iti bhagavadgItATIkAyAM suvIdhinyAM zrIdharasvAmikRtAyAM mokSasanyAsayogA nAmA 'STA(dazo)[mo]dyAyaH 18
AdarzadoSAn mativibhramAd vA yarccathazutdhaM likhtaM mayAtra

Changes

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