Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2491 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 856 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–36v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Gajendramokṣaṇa |
Incipit: |
f. 1r: śatānīka uvāca . mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor atulatejasaḥ .. śru tāḥ saṁbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata ..1.. |
Explicit: |
f35v-f36r: yo 'dhīte hi gajeṁdramokṣaṇam i daṁ nityaṁ śṛṇoty ādarāt sa prāpnoty atha vā tulā puruṣajagokoṭidānodbhavaṁ .. duḥsvapnopaśama sya vedaṁ pavanasyāsaṁkhyamukhyakrator varṣāṇā m ayutaṁ prayāgasavanasyākhaṁḍitaṁ satphalaṁ ..158.. |
Final rubric: |
f36r-f36v: .. iti śrīmahābhārate śāṁti
parvaṇi sarvadharmeṣu śrīviṣṇoḥ gajeṁdramo kṣaṇaṁ nāma mahāstutiḥ saṁpūrṇā .. .. .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | For a description and additional transcription of the Gajarājamokṣaṇa, which does not, as claimed in the final rubric, occur in the Śāntiparvan or anywhere in the Mahābhārata, see SLMsCat UPenn MsIndic5 and SLMsCat UPenn 0488. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper. |
Extent: | 36 |
Dimension: | 7 x 12.1 cm |
Collation: | Single and paired folios. |
Formula: | 1, 2–3, 4, ..., 9, 10–11, 12, ..., 17, 18–19, 20, ..., 25, 26–27, 28, ..., 33, 34–35, 36 |
Condition: | Good condition with a few tears that do not affect the text: the margin of f. 7 (f. 7r top, f7v bottom), f. 14 (f. 14r, f14v), right corner of f. 18 (f. 18r upper, f. 18v lower). The red pigment on f. 18r, f18v is faded. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 5 lines per page. |
Color: | Invocation, final rubric, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas are written in red. |
Border: | Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
Origin: | 18– |
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. ” |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Gajendramokṣaṇa. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Record revised: | 6 March 2012 |
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