Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2412
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:914

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:anuzAsanaparvan viSNusahasranAmastotra
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v> [...]
Explicit:f.<26v>
Final rubric:f.<26v> iti zrImahAbharate zatasahasryAM saMhitAyAM vaiyyAzikyAM | anuzAsanike parvaNi dAnadharmottamAnuzAsane zrIvirSNA divyasahasranAmastotraM saMpUrNaM ||
Colophon:f.<26v> hastAkSiraprajJAnAM zramacaraNA brahmAzramena likhi ||
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:26
Foliation:16 leaves, foliated 1-16
1-16
Collation:
Condition:
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Some writing in margins on folios 4 verso and 7 recto.

Decoration

History

Color:Mistakes covered over with white or yellow orange powder rubbed in over invocations, introduction of speakers, numbers, double daṇḍas and some lines.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: 18--
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 -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:

zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
zrIgurubhyo namaH ||
zrIgopAlAya namaH ||
hariH oM ||
stotrANAM paramaM stotraM viSNor nAma sahasrakaM ||
hitvA stotrasahasrANi paThanIyaM mahAmune ||1|| [...]
Note: [TK] followed by five verses, then:

yasya smaraNamAtreNa janmasaMsArabaMdhanAt ||
vimucyate namas tasmai viSNave prabhaviSNave ||1|| vaizaMpAyana uvAca ||
zrutvA dharmAn azeSena [...] (MBh. 13.135.001)

f. 26v:

[...] sahasrakoTIyugadhAriNe namaH ||25|| (Mbh. 13*0635_05-08)
iti zrImahAbharate zatasahasryAM saMhitAyAM vaiyyAzikyAM |
anuzAsanike parvaNi dAnadharmottamAnuzAsane zrIvirSNA
Note: [TK] vowel marked with a kAkapAda, nothing in margin
divyasahasranAmastotraM saMpUrNaM ||

zri kRSNArpaNam astu ||
||
cha ||

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 .