Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2222
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:891

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:śāntiparvan
Incipit: f. 1v:
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṃsārabaṃdhanāt ||
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||1||
Explicit: f. 36v:
naro muktim avāpnotī cakrapāṇir vaco yathā ||
brahmahatyādikaṃ pāpaṃ sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate ||36
Note: 136
||
Final rubric: f. 36v:
iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vayyāśakyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:White European paper. Chain lines.
Watermark:Watermark on f. 36: Lady Brittania on a throne with shield. Ditto for f. 34. Ditto for f. 26. Ditto for f. 21. Ditto for f. 20. Ditto for f. 13. F. 31: watermark with text. F. 29: watermark with text. F. 24: watermark with text. F. 23: watermark with text. F. 16: watermark with text. F. 15: watermark with text. F. 8: watermark with text. The text reads: W & JHarri[s?] TurkeyMil[l?] 1839
Extent:36
Dimension:10.5 x 17.4 cm
Foliation:36 leaves, foliated 1-36.
formula: 1-36
Condition:Lacks last folio, folio 37. Folio 1 has been damaged and repaired. Folios 29 and 30 have small holes burnt in them and folio 29 has black smudged near the burnt hole on its verso side.
Layout:Written in 5 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas in red. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers.

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 -- Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṃsārabaṃdhanāt ||
vimucyate namas tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||1||
f. 36v:
naro muktim avāpnotī cakrapāṇir vaco yathā ||
brahmahatyādikaṃ pāpaṃ sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate ||36
Note: 136
|| iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vayyāśakyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi
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