Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2372
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:390

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:???
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:AraNyakaparvan
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1r>
Explicit:
Final rubric:iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasryAM saMhitAyAM vaiyyAsikyam AraNyake parvaNi AraNIharaNaM samAptaM
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:???
Author:nIlakaRWaBawwa
Title:
Part:AraNyakaparvan
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f. yo devo muninicayakSudhAkSudhAvAn
Explicit:AzIyoktA AzISaMprayujya 29 30 maMtrApavicArArthe 31
Final rubric:f.<519r> iti zrImatpadavAkyapramANajJam aryAdAdhuraM dharacatudhvaravaMzAvataMsazrIgoviMdasUrisUnoH zrI la nI kaMThasya kRtau bhAratabhAvadIye AraNyakaparvArthaprakAzaH samAptim agamat
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:

Work 3 (incomplete)

Locus:519v
Author:
Title:
Part:
Cover rubric:
Incipit:samAptaM vedam AraNyakaM parveti asyAgre virATaparva bhaviSyati tasyApamAghazlokaH
Explicit:f.<519v>
Final rubric:iti zrImahAbhArate AraNyaparvaNi AraNyakazravaNyamahidAnavidhiz ca samAptam AraNyake parva ||
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:524
Foliation:524 leaves, foliated 1-188, 189a, 189b [numbered 188 in lower-right corner], [textual continuation] 190-366, 367a, 367b, [textual continuity] 368-380, [textual continuity, no leaf missing] 382-392, 393a, 393b, 394-505, 506a, 506b, [textual continuity] 507-519, [520], [521] Under numbering on f. 382v upper-left corner, a second hand has noted, aMkacukalApatrage lenAhI. F. 382, numbering corrected to 381 at lower-right corner numbering. F. 392: last digit in no. corrected to '2' from probably a '1'. F. 393b: last digit in no. corrected to '3' from something else, probably a '2'. Textual continuity, 391 -> 392, 392 -> 393a, 393a -> 393b, 393b -> 394 F. 463: last digit corrected to '3' from something else, possibly '2' F. 471: numbered 470 in lower-right corner F. [520]: Text only on recto, not numbered. F. [521] blank except for no. 520 on verso. Second numbering in the extreme top-right corner on the versos of the leaves. Similarly for the extreme bottom-right corners of the rectos. Sometimes damaged or illegible. These do not occur on the leaves written by another hand, ff. 178-200. Ff. 31-32 attached
1-188, 189a, 189b [numbered 188 in lower-right corner], [textual continuation] 190-366, 367a, 367b, [textual continuity] 368-380, [textual continuity, no leaf missing] 382-392, 393a, 393b, 394-505, 506a, 506b, [textual continuity] 507-519, [520], [521]
Collation:
Condition:mUla ends in crit. 34.46cd (numbered after this 47). picks up in crit. 34.61ab (numbered 61). Gap in text. Numbering of leaves continuous. , damage in lower-left part (when looking at recto); damage to abbreviated title on f. 488v, 489v, and 490v. Misnumbering of verses from --- jumps from 17 (crit. 15.17) to 28 (crit. 15.18); just a misnumbering. Damage very minimal (f. 106 tear to a corner, no text damaged). Very legible.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Corrections to text made with yellow pigment: f. 496r, 496v, 498r, 498v, 502r, 502v, 503r, 503v, 504r, 504v, 506ar, 506av, 506bv, 511v, 512v,

Marginal corrections very few (f. 79v, 81r, 84r, f. 180v [same hands here], f. 193v [same hand here]); done by a second hand. F. 187v insert in margin by same hand. Text in margins on f. 216, 219r, 223r. mUla continued into margin as addition, f. 61v; same hand.

Decoration

History

Color:Corrections to text made with yellow pigment
Border:Text between two double red lines on the left and on the right. ff. 352-390 --- the red vertical lines missing, as well as on 392-400, as well as 448-
Illustration:On f. 316v are some ornamental patterns drawn.
Origin: 18-- The manuscript belonged to a kRSNabhairava; excess space after the mUla often ends with kRSNabhairavasya or kRSNabhairavasyedAM (e.g., f. 118v) or kRSNabhairavasyedaM (f. 120r) or kRSNAjIbhairavasyedaM (f. 129v) or [or some other invocation, like sIddhezvarAya namaH, f. 117v, zrIrAmacaMdrAya namaH f. 120r)]. This not added by another hand, but written by the scribe. Most clear: kRSNabhairavasyedaM pustakaM syAt (f. 132r). Also occurs at excess space at the end of the TIkA, e.g., f. 160v: kRSNAjIbhairavasyedaM. f. 161v: kRSNAjIbhairavasyedaM pustakaM.
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 -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription mū:

nArAyaNaM namaskRtya naraM caiva narottamaM
devIM sarasvatIM caiva tato jayam udIrayet janamejaya uvAca
evaM dyutajitAH pArthAH kopitAz ca durAtmabhiH [...] (MBh. 3.001.001) Commentary:

zrIgaNezAya namaH
yo devo muninicayakSudhAkSudhAvAn Commentary:


f. 153v:

ity AraNyake TIkAyAM pulastyatIrthaprakAzaH ||

f. 519r:
mū:

[...] saMdhivigrahakAlajJA maMtrAya samupAvizan
Note: [TK] numbered 31
(MBh. 03.229.029cd)
iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasryAM saMhitAyAM vaiyyAsikyam AraNyake parvaNi AraNIharaNaM samAptaM Commentary:

AzIyoktA AzISaMprayujya 29 30 maMtrApavicArArthe 31
iti zrImatpadavAkyapramANajJam aryAdAdhuraM dharacatudhvaravaMzAvataMsazrIgoviMdasUrisUnoH zrI la
Note: raised 2
nI
Note: raised 1
kaMThasya kRtau bhAratabhAvadIye AraNyakaparvArthaprakAzaH samAptim agamat
samAptaM vedam AraNyakaM parveti asyAgre virATaparva bhaviSyati tasyAyam AdyazlokaH janamejaya u*
kathaM virATanagare mama pUrvapitAmahAH
ajJAtavAsam uSitA duryodhanabhayArditAH ||1||
asmin parvaNi saMkhyA[nAH](naM) [vye](vyA)senoktaM mahAtmanA ||
adhyAyAnAM zate hetu prasaMkhyAte tapodhana ||2|| [...]
[...] AraNyakAkhyam AkhyAnaM zRNuyAd yo narottamaH ||
sa sarvakAmam Apnoti punaH svargatim ApnuyAt ||7||
iti zrImahAbhArate AraNyaparvaNi AraNyakazravaNyamahidAnavidhiz ca samAptam AraNyake parva ||

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 .