Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2496
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:850

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:zAntiparvan anusmRti [=ratnav 4/5]
Cover rubric:anusmRtiprAraMbhaH ||
Incipit:f.<1v>
Explicit:f.<41v>
Final rubric:f.<14v> iti zrImahAbhArate zAMtiparvaNi zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM viSNudharmotare anusmRtisaMpUrNa
Colophon:
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:14
Foliation:14 leaves, foliated 1-14
1-14
Collation:
Condition:
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

DN: A few marginal corrections and many very lengthy additions in margins. A bit of Telugu script in the margin (f. 1r). |

TK: The additions in the margins appear to be a different text, maybe a different version of the same text. They are by another hand. They first occur on f. 2r, as follows: devavra[corr. from vre]taM mahAprAjJaM sarvazAstravizAradaM || praNamya daMDavat bhUmau paprachedaM yudhiSThiraH ||4|| yudhiSThira u* || pitAmaha mahAprAjJa sarvazAstravizArada || pramANakAle kiMcit yaM mokSAya tatvadarzanaiH ||5|| The marginal insert seems to begin on f. 14r, left margin: ||79|| gatvA gatvA nivarttaMte caM f. 14v, top margin drasUryAdayo grahAH || adyApi na nivarttaMte dvAdazAkSaraciMta kA?ra? na vAsudevAt param asti maMgalaM na vA* t paramaH pAvanam || f. 14v right margin na vAsude* daivataM na vAsudevAt paNipat prasIdati || cha || iti zrImahA F. 14v, bottom margin, has in a third hand: sarvamaMgalado kRSNaM bhavati varado harir iti ||

Decoration

History

Color:Invocation, colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red.
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 -- Anusmṛti.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription
anusmRtiprAraMbhaH ||
cha

f. 1v:

zrIgaNezAya namaH || zatAnIka uvAca ||
mahAmate mahAprAjJa sarvazAstravizArada ||
akSINakarmabaMdhas tu puruSo dvijasattama ||1||

f. 41v:

nanu dhyAyaMti ye dehe kathayAmi ca tat sukhaM ||
sarvabaMdhavinirmuktaH paraM padam avApnuyAt
Note: kAkapAda, for marginal insert, here
||7|6||
iti zrImahAbhArate zAMtiparvaNi zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM viSNudharmotare anusmRtisaMpUrNa
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 .