Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:488
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:853

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:zAntiparvan gajendramokSaNa
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v>
Explicit:f.<17v>
Final rubric:
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:16
Foliation:16 leaves, foliated 1-2, 4-17.
1-2, 4-17
Collation:
Condition:F. 3 missing. Lacksed.
Accompanying matter:

Decoration

History

Color:Red ink used to highlight change of speakers. Folios 5,7,9,11,13 and 15 colored yellow. Invocation, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas when written in red.
Border:
Illustration:Ornamental design in red on
Origin: zaka 1743 [=1821]
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 -- Gajendramokṣaṇa.
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 ||
|| zatAnaka uvAca || ||
mayA hi devadevasya viSNor amitatejasaH
zrutvA saMbhUtayaH sarvA gadatas tava suvrata 1
Note: [TK] a verse that I couldn't trace in the critical edition of the zAntiparvan


f. 2v:

kiM tasya bahubhir maMtraiH kiM tasya bahubhir vratai
oM namo nArAyaNAyeti maMtraH sarvArthasAdhakaH 12
jajJe bahujJaM paramaty udaraM yaM dvIpamadhye
sutam AtmayogAt (???Put the range of missing text in the corresponding edition here.???)
raNye saMvAdaM nAradasya ca
zRNu rAjan mahAbaho kathayiSye hi zAMtikaM 21
duHkhapradarzane jApyaM yad vA nityaM samAhitaiH
atrApy udAharaMtImam itihAsaM purAtanaM 22

f. 17v:

vaikuMThaM duSTadamanaM bhaktidaM madhusUdanaM
etAni prAtar utthAya saMsmaraMti ca ye janAH 32
sarvapApai pramucyaM

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 .