Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:375
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:825

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:udyogaparvan [complete]
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v>
Explicit:f.<236r> || ||
Final rubric:f.<236r> iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasryAM sahitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM udyogaparvaNi senAnirpANaM nAma samAptaM || || || asyAnaMtaraM bhISmaparva bhaviSyati || || || tasyAyaM pratisadhiH || || zrIkAzIvizvesvarAbhyAM namaH
Colophon:f.<236v> udyogaparvam idaM kizoradAse vrAhmaNAya niveditaM
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:55v
Author:nIlakaRWaBawwa
Title:
Part:udyogaparvan sanatsUjAtIyArthaprakAza [= adhyAya 42-45]
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<55v> tato rAjeti | manISI zAstrasahRtamanISAn rahite ekAMnte paramAM vuddhiM paravidyAM atha
Explicit:f.<90r> guNaviziSTaM pratyag AtmAnaM hRdaye viciMtanena sAkSAt kRtyakRtakRtyo bhavatIty arthaH ||31||
Final rubric:iti zrImatpadavAkyapramANajJam aryyAdAdhuraM dharacaturdharavaMzAvataMsazrIgoviMdasUrisUnoH zrInIlakaMThasya kRtau bhAratAbhAvadIpe udyoga paNi sanatsUjAtIyArthaprakAze paMcamo dhyAyaH || samAptaz ca sanatsujAtIyArthaprakAzaH
Colophon:TIkAyA zlokasaMkhyA likhyate 1212
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:236
Foliation:236 leaves, foliated 1-236 (F. 236 foliated on recto). F. 56 originally numbered 55; corrected.
1-236
Collation:
Condition:F. 135 torn at bottom (when looking at recto), affecting slightly a line of marginal insert on the verso bottom.
Accompanying matter:

Decoration

History

Color:On f. 186r, use of orange to highlight ceases. There on f. 188, though. Also there on f. 205v. Also on f. 231r
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: 17--
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 mū:


f. 1v:

om ||
zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
||
nArAyaNaM namaskRtya naraM caiva narottamaM ||
devIM sarasvatIM caiva tato jayam udIrayet ||1||
vaizaMpAyana uvAca ||
kRtvA vivAhaM tu kurupravIrAs
tadAbhimanyor muditasvapakSAH [...] (MBh. 1.1ab) Commentary:


f. 55v:

udyogaparvaNi sanatsujAtIye bhASyakArAdibhir vyAkhyAtAn saMpratitanapustakeSu ca sthitAn pAThAn zlokAMz ca guNopasaMhAranyAyenaikIkRtya vyAkhyAyate ||
tato rAjeti |
manISI zAstrasahRtamanISAn rahite ekAMnte paramAM vuddhiM paravidyAM atha [...]
Note: commenting crit 42.1ab: vaizaMpAyana uvAca tato rAjA dhRtarASTro manISI


f. 65v:

iti bhAratabhAvadIpe sanatsujAtIyaprakAze prathamaH

f. 75v:

(iti nailakaMTIye bhAra
Note: syllable missing
bhAvadIpe udyogaparvaNi sanatsujAnIye dvitIyo dhyAyaH ||
||2|| mū:


f. 236r:

[...] sahasrayutazo narAH
Note: [TK] then a wedge for a marginal insert, but nothing in margin; last half of verse missing
|| || (Mbh. 197.20c)
iti zrImahAbhArate zatasAhasryAM sa<M>hitAyAM vaiyAsikyAM udyogaparvaNi senAnirpANaM nAma samAptaM ||
||
|| asyAnaMtaraM bhISmaparva bhaviSyati ||
||
||
tasyAyaM pratisadhiH ||
|| janamejaya uvAca
kathaM yudhiSTire vIrAH kurupANDavasomakAH ||
pArthivAH sumahAtmAno nAnAdezasamAgatAH ||1|| (Mbh. 6.1.1)
zrIkAzIvizvesvarAbhyAM namaH


f. 236v:
udyogaparvam idaM kizoradAse(na) vrAhmaNAya niveditaM Commentary:


f. 90r:

[...] guNaviziSTaM pratyag AtmAnaM hRdaye viciMtanena sAkSAt kRtyakRtakRtyo bhavatIty arthaH ||31||
Note: Commenting crit. 45.28cd [numbered 31]

iti zrImatpadavAkyapramANajJam aryyAdAdhuraM dharacaturdharavaMzAvataMsazrIgoviMdasUrisUnoH zrInIlakaMThasya kRtau bhAratAbhAvadIpe udyoga [rva]pa(rva)Ni sanatsUjAtIyArthaprakAze paMcamo dhyAyaH ||
samAptaz ca sanatsujAtIyArthaprakAzaH

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 .