Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:452
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:890

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:zAntiparvan viSNusahasranAmastotra
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v>
Explicit:f.<31v>
Final rubric:f.<31v> tatvasata iti zrImahAbhArate satasahasrasaMhitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM zAMti parvaNi uttamAnuzAsane dAnadharmottare zrIviSNor nAmasahasraM saMpUrNaM || ||
Colophon:f.<32r> [...] zrIrAmakRSNAya nama vaiSNavAlatsa{?}dAsapaTha | rarthI | haribhaktiparAyaNaH zrIrAmAya namaH ||
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:32
Foliation:32 leaves, foliated 1-32. F. 32 foliated on recto, and verso blank.
1-32
Collation:
Condition:There is a hole ripped in folio 11, but the writing can still be made out.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over in yellow, or more usually, gray.

A very few marginal corrections.

Decoration

History

Color:Invocation, part of final colophon numbers, and every other syllable of the introduction of speakers in red. Mistakes covered over in yellow, or more usually, gray.
Border:Simple but impressive geometric bordering device in yellow, red, and black.
Illustration:
Origin: 17--
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 -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:

oM zrIrAdhAkRSNAya namaH ||
oM yasya smaraNamAtreNa janmasaMsAravaMdhanAt ||
vimucyate namaHs tasmai viSNave prabhaviSNave ||1||
namaH samastabhUtAnAm AdibhUtAya bhubhRte ||
anekarUparUpAya viSNave prabhaviSNave ||2|| vaisyaMpAyana uvAca ||
zrutvA dharmANy azeSeNa (MBh. 13.135.1)

f. 31v:

sA nirdahati pApAni kalpakoTizatAni ca ||
azvattha sannidhau pArtha tatvamAne si kezavaH ||162||
vilayaM yAMti pApani anyapApasya kAkadhAH ||
tatvasata
iti zrImahAbhArate satasahasrasaMhitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM zAMti parvaNi uttamAnuzAsane dAnadharmottare zrIviSNor nAmasahasraM saMpUrNaM ||
||
yAdrizaM pUstakaM driSTA || tAdrisaM liSitaM mayA ||
idi sUdham adhaM vA mama doso na diyate
zrIrAmakRSNAya nama vaiSNavAlatsa{?}dAsapaTha |
rarthI |
haribhaktiparAyaNaH zrIrAmAya namaH ||
zrIgopAlAya namaH ||
zrIkRSNAyana(ma)

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 .