Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2182
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:832

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhISmaparvan durgAstotra
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1r>
Explicit:f.<4r>
Final rubric:f.<4r> iti zrImahAbhArate bhISmapa0 bhagavadgItApa0 durgAstotre trayoviMzo dhyAyaH ||23||
Colophon:f.<4r> idaM hastA* yAdavasUnUrAmacaMdreNa likhitaM idaM stotraM karaka vAsirAmazAstri AcAryasya saMmataM likhitaM idaM pustakaM haribhA U viMjhe guhAgarakasyAMce aze zake 1793 prajApati nAma saMvatsare kArtikazu* 4 dine samApta
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:British paper, blue with watermark on ff. 3-4 (mostly on f. 3).
Watermark:The watermark is lady Britannia sitting on a throne, her shield at her side.
Extent:4
Foliation:4 leaves, foliated 1-4.
1-4
Collation:Ff. 1-2 and ff. 3-4 attached.
1+2, 2+4
Condition:Somewhat brittle, edges fragile.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:Mistakes indicated by a number of vertical strokes above the syllable in question.

History

Origin: Rāmacandra, son of Yādava Thursday, 1871-11-16
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 -- Bhīṣmaparva -- Durgāstotra.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:

||
zrIgaNezA* || saMjaya uvAca ||
dhArttarASTrabalaM dRSTvA yuddhAya samupasthitaM ||
arjunasya hitArthAya kRSNo vacanam abravIt ||1|| (MBh. crit. star. (After 6.22.16, K2.4 B Da Dn D2 (lines 1-7 only).4.7.8 ins.))

f. 4r:

yatra dharmo dyutiH kAMtir yatra hrIH zrIs tathA matiH ||
yato dharmas tataH kRSNo yataH kRSNas tato jayaH || (Mbh. crit. star. (end of the section cited above):)
iti zrImahAbhArate bhISmapa* bhagavadgItApa* durgAstotre trayoviMzo dhyAyaH ||23||

idaM hastA* yAdavasUnUrAmacaMdreNa likhitaM idaM stotraM karaka
Note: [blotted character, maybe a 'Sa'
vAsirAmazAstri AcAryasya saMmataM likhitaM idaM pustakaM haribhA U viMjhe guhAgarakasyAMce aze zake 1793 prajApati nAma saMvatsare kArtikazu* 4 dine samApta

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 .