Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2664
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:858

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-15r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:śāntiparvan
Incipit: f. 1v:
śatānīka uvāca || || mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ ||
śrutāḥ saṃbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata ||1||
Explicit: f. 15r:
ākāśāt patitaṃ toyaṃ yathā gachati sāgare ||
sarvadevanamaskāraḥ keśavaṃ pratigachati ||59
Note: 159
|| gītāsahasranāmaiva stavarājo hy anusmṛtiḥ ||
gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃ caiva paṃcaratnāni bhārate ||60
Note: 160
|| ||
Final rubric: f. 15r:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃ nāmādhyāyaḥ || || śubhaṃ bhavatu || ||
Colophon: 15r:
pavanārthaṃ vaiṣṇavadvārikāṃ dāsa idaṃ0
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:15
Dimension:10.7 x 18.7 cm
Foliation:15 leaves, foliated 1-15.
formula: 1-15
Condition:The edges of folios 1 and 15 are badly mangled. The folios are badly stained. |
Layout:Written in 15 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas written in red.

History

Origin: 17--
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 -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
|| śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ || || śatānīka uvāca || || mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ ||
śrutāḥ saṃbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata ||1||
f. 15r:
ākāśāt patitaṃ toyaṃ yathā gachati sāgare ||
sarvadevanamaskāraḥ keśavaṃ pratigachati ||59
Note: 159
|| gītāsahasranāmaiva stavarājo hy anusmṛtiḥ ||
gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃ caiva paṃcaratnāni bhārate ||60
Note: 160
|| || iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃ nāmādhyāyaḥ || || śubhaṃ bhavatu || || pavanārthaṃ vaiṣṇavadvārikāṃ dāsa idaṃ0
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