Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2330
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:828

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:viSNusahasranAmAvali + nyAsa
Cover rubric:|| zrIviSNusahasranAmAvali prAraMbhaH ||
Incipit:f.<1v> asya zrIviSNor divyasahasranAmamaMtrANAM vedavyAsa RSiH paramAtmA devatA anuSTup chaMdaH amRtAzUdbhavo bhAnur iti bIjaM devakInaMdaneti zaktiH zaMkhabhRnnaMdakIti kilakaM || zArGadhnvA gadAdhareti astraM ||
Explicit:f.<16v> kSitIzAya0 pApanAzanAya0 zaMkhabhRtena0 naMdakine0 cakriNe0 zArGadhanvane0 gadAdharAya0 rathAMgapANaye0 akSobhyAya0 sarvapraharaNAyudhAya namaH || ||1000||
Final rubric:f.<16v> iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasryAM saMhitAyAM viSNor divyasahasranAmAvalistrotram saMpUrNam astu || || zrIviSNvArapaNam astu || || || iti viSNusahasranAmAvali samAptaḥ ||
Colophon:f.<16v> || zake 1720 kAlayuktasaMvatsare ASADhavadyatrayodazyAMtadine dADekaropanAmakabhAskarena likhitaM ||
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:16
Foliation:16 leaves, foliated 1-16.
1-16
Collation:
Condition:
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Yellow pigment used for corrections.

Decoration

History

Color:Yellow pigment used for corrections.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: Dāḍekara Bhāskara 1798-06-26
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 -- Viṣṇusahasranāmāvali.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription
||
zrIviSNusahasranAmAvali prAraMbhaH ||

f. 1v:

zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
asya zrIviSNor divyasahasranAmamaMtrANAM vedavyAsa RSiH paramAtmA devatA anuSTup chaMdaH amRtAzUdbhavo bhAnur iti bIjaM devakInaMdaneti zaktiH zaMkhabhRnnaMdakIti kilakaM ||
zArGadhnvA gadAdhareti astraM ||

f. 16v:

kSitIzAya0
pApanAzanAya0
zaMkhabhRtena0
naMdakine0
cakriNe0
zArGadhanvane0
gadAdharAya0
rathAMgapANaye0
akSobhyAya0
sarvapraharaNAyudhAya namaH || ||1000||
iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasryAM saMhitAyAM viSNor divyasahasranAmAvalistrotram saMpUrNam astu ||
||
zrIviSNvArapaNam astu ||
||
||
iti viSNusahasranAmAvali samAptah ||
||
zake 1720 kAlayuktasaMvatsare ASADhavadyatrayodazyAMtadine dADekaropanAmakabhAskarena 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 .