Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2486
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:854

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:zAntiparvan gajendramokSaNa
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v>
Explicit:f.<21r>
Final rubric:f.<21v> iti zrImanmahAbhA(ra)te zatasAhasryasaMhitAyAM vaiyyAsikyAM zAMtiparvaNi mokSadharmme zaunakazatAnikasaMvAde zrIgajeMdramokSastotrasaMpUrNam ||
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:21
Foliation:21 leaves, foliated 1-21. F. 1r blank.
1-21
Collation:
Condition:
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow. A few marginal additions and corrections. |

Decoration

History

Color:Invocation, introduction of speakers in bright red. Double daṇḍas written in darker red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.
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

f. 1v:

zrIgaNezAya namaH || zatAnIka uvAca ||
mayA hi devadeveza viSNor amitatejasaH ||
zrutvA saMbhUtayaH sarvA gadatas tava suvrata ||1||

f. 21r:

mama zAstrAni ye nityaM pUjayaMti paThaMti ca ||
tena rAgajasArdUla nityaM yAtAmaAMti kiM ||161||
gItAsahasranAmaM ca stavarAjam anusmRtaM ||
gajeMdramokSaNaM caiva paMcaratnAni bhArate ||162||
iti zrImanmahAbhA(ra)te zatasAhasryasaMhitAyAM vaiyyAsikyAM zAMtiparvaNi mokSadharmme zaunakazatAnikasaMvAde zrIgajeMdramokSastotrasaMpUrNam ||
zubhaM bhavat ||
zrIkRSNArpaNam astu || ||

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 .