Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2326
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:912

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:???
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:viSNusahasranAmastotra
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v>
Explicit:f.<23r23v17r> [...]
Final rubric:f.<17v> iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasryAM saMhitAyAM anuzAsanike parvaNi dAnadharme putrazAsane zrIviSNoH sahasranAmastotraM saMpUrNaM ||
Colophon:f.<17v> sAMvrekaropanAmaka lakSumaNa bhaTTena likhitaM svArthaM parArthaM paropakArArthaM ca || zake 1747 pArthivanAma saMvatsare udagayane zizi Rtau phAlgunazuddhapratipadi likhitaM ||
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:European white paper, now brown. Chain lines.
Watermark:Traces of watermark on some leaves.
Extent:24
Foliation:24 leaves, foliated 1-24.
1-24
Collation:
Condition:Folios badly water-stained. Folio 1 slightly mutilated but text still legible.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with tan.

Decoration

History

Color:Double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with tan.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: zaka 1747 [= 1825]
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 ()

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:

zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
hariH om ||
yasya smaraNamAtreNa janmasaMsArabaMdhanAt ||
vimucyate namas tasmai viSNave prabhaviSNave ||1||
namaH samastabhUtAnAm AdibhUtAya bhUbhRte ||
anekarUparUpAya viSNave prabhaviSNave ||2|| vaizaMpAyana uvAca ||
zrutvA dharmAn azeSena
Note: numbered 3
(MBh. 13.135.001)

f. 23r:

[...] vijAnIyAd goviMdarahitAgamaM ||30
Note: 130
|| (Mbh. 13*0637_05-06)

f. 23v:

sarva[de]ve(de)Su yat puNyaM sarvatIrtheSu yat phalaM
tat phalaM samavApnoti stutvA devaM janArddana ||31
Note: 131
|| [...]

f. 17r:

naro muktim avApnoti cakrapANer vaco yathA ||
brahmahatyAdikaM pApaM sarvapApaiH pramucyati ||38
Note: 138
||
iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasryAM saMhitAyAM anuzAsanike parvaNi dAnadharme putrazAsane zrIviSNoH sahasranAmastotraM saMpUrNaM ||

zrIkRSNArpaNam astu ||
||
sAMvrekaropanAmaka lakSumaNa bhaTTena likhitaM svArthaM parArthaM paropakArArthaM ca ||
zake 1747 pArthivanAma saMvatsare udagayane zizi(ra) Rtau phAlgunazuddhapratipadi likhitaM ||

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 .