Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 375 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 825 |
Locus: | ff. I:1r–236v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Mahābhārata |
Part: | Udyogaparvan |
Cover rubric: |
f. I:1r
.. mahābhārataudyogaparva .. |
Incipit: |
f. I:1v
nārāyaṇaṁ namaskṛtya naraṁ caiva narottamaṁ .. devīṁ sarasvatīṁ caiva tato jayam udīrayet ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. I:236r
asyānaṁtaraṁ bhīṣmaparva bhaviṣyati .. .. .. tasyāyaṁ pratisadhiḥ .. .. .. janamejaya uvāca .. .. kathaṁ yudhiṣṭire vīrāḥ kurupāṇḍavasomakāḥ .. pārthivāḥ sumahātmāno nānādeśasamāgatāḥ ..1.. Mbh. 6.1.1 śrīkāśīviśvesvarābhyāṁ namaḥ .. .. .. .. .. śubhaṁ .. .. .. |
Colophon: |
f. I:236v
udyogaparvam idaṁ kiśoradāse(na) vrāhmaṇāya niveditaṁ |
Note: | The manuscript contains the entire Udyogaparvan. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Incipit: |
f. I:1v
vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca .. kṛtvā vivāhaṁ tu kurupravīrās tadābhimanyor muditasvapakṣāḥ viśramya rātrāv uṣasi pratītāḥ sabhāṁ virāṭasya tato bhijagmuḥ 1 (Triṣṭubh) <...> ( MBh. 5.1.1 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. I:2v
iti śrī mahābhārate udyogaparvaṇi ..1.. |
Explicit: |
f. I:1v
narddaṁtaḥ prayayus teṣām anīkāni sahasraśaḥ tatra bherīsahasrāṇi śaṅkhānām ayutāni ca 35 ( MBh. 5.197.20cd–5.197.21ab ) (Anuṣṭubh) nyavādayaṁtaḥ saṁhṛṣṭāḥ sahasrayutaśo narāḥ .. .. (A wedge for a marginal insertion precedes the daṇḍas in this single line, but no text appears in the margin. The verses are divided differently in the critical edition, and it is doubtful that any text is missing. MBh. 5.197.21cd ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. I:236r
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ sa<ṁ>hitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ udyogaparvaṇi senāniryāṇaṁ nāma samāptaṁ .. .. .. |
Locus: | ff. I:55v–90r |
Author: | Nīlakaṇṭhabhaṭṭa |
Part: | Udyogaparvan adhyāya 42–45 |
Incipit: |
f. I:55v
udyogaparvaṇi sanatsujātīye bhāṣyakārādibhir vyākhyātān saṁpratitanapustakeṣu ca sthitān pāṭhān ślokāṁś ca guṇopasaṁhāranyāyenaikīkṛtya vyākhyāyate .. |
Final rubric: |
f. I:90r
samāptaś ca sanatsujātīyārthaprakāśaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. I:90r
ṭīkāyāḥ ślokasaṁkhyā likhyate 1212 |
Note: | The manuscript contains an extract from Nīlakaṇṭhabhaṭṭa's commentary Bhāratabhāvadīpa on the Ṃahābhārata. The extract, entitled Sanatsūjātīyārthaprakāśa comments on chapters 42–46 of the Udyogaparvan as numbered in this manuscript, which corresponds with the Pune critical edition MBh. 5.42.1–5.45.28. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Incipit: |
f. I:55v
tato rājeti . manīṣī śāstrasahṛtamanīṣāvān rahite ekāṁnte paramāṁ vuddhiṁ paravidyāṁ atha parā yayā tad akṣaram adhigamyata iti śrutiprasiddhaṁ papracha . etena viṣayo darśitaḥ . prayojanaṁ darśayati!ṁ!<> mahātmā vibhūṣanniti paraṁ !vra!<bra>hma bhavituṁm ichan . <...> |
Final rubric: |
f. I:65v
iti bhāratabhāvadīpe sanatsujātīyaprakāśe prathamaḥ .. |
Explicit: |
f. I:75v
<...>smi nirbhayam iti 63 |
Final rubric: |
f. I:75v
iti nailakaṁṭīye bhāra<ta>bhāvadīpe udyogaparvaṇi sanatsujātīye dvitīyo dhyāyaḥ .. ..2.. |
Explicit: |
f. I:90r
sa sumanāḥ etena saguṇarūpam uktaṁ . sarvabhūteṣu jāg[r]a(r)ti śapo 'lupārthaḥ . pitaraṁ dvipadādīnāṁ jarāyujādīṅāṁ ca . sarvabhūteṣu sarvadeheṣu puṣkare hṛdayapuṇḍarīke . nihitaṁ sthitaṁ vidur vrāhmaṇā jānaṁti evaṁ guṇaviśiṣṭaṁ pratyag ātmānaṁ hṛdaye viciṁtanena sākṣāt kṛtyakṛtakṛtyo bhavatīty arthaḥ ..31.. |
Final rubric: |
f. I:90r
iti śrīmatpadavākyapramāṇajñam aryyādādhuraṁ dharacaturdharavaṁśāvataṁsaśrīgoviṁdasūrisūnoḥ śrīnīlakaṁṭhasya kṛtau bhāratābhāvadīpe udyoga [rva]pa(rva)ṇi sanatsūjātīyārthaprakāśe paṁcamo dhyāyaḥ .. |
Locus: | addition f. II:1r–addition f. II:1v |
Author: | Unknown |
Title: | unidentified |
Incipit: |
addition f. II:1r
raṁgīlīsaravīhovaṁsīvanamevajī dhīrasamīratīrajamunā ke suṁdarasyāmasaṁjī śravaṇasunatasavavrajakīvanitāāturaturatabhajī jānakīdāsasyāmamila <> kokulakīlājatajī 1 soraṭha .. |
Explicit: |
addition f. II:1v
govi<ṁ>darasikapaurahamārāmahatāva āvatāvakamalaauragulābavyā0kaliṁ0 ..1.. |
Note: | A single folio accompanying the manuscript begins with the typical Sanskrit obeisance to Gaṇeśa and contains a poem in Hindustani which the editors have made no attempt yet to identify. The poem mentions goviṁda and kaliṁgarā0 several times. |
Language: | Hindūstānī in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 237 folia |
Dimension: | 16 x 35 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated 1–236 in the upper left and lower right margin on the verso of each folio except f. 236, which is foliated on recto. The number on f. I:56v was corrected from 55 to 56. The additional leaf in Hindustani is unnumbered and imaged separately. |
Formula: | I: 1–236; II: [1] |
Signatures: | bhā0 u0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin (u0 dyo0 on f. I:13v, missing on f. I:134v, f. I:148v–f. I:206v, f. I:208v, f. I:210v–f. I:223v, f. I:225v–f. I:228v, f. I:230v–f. I:236v), and śivaḥ appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio (śiva on f. I:22v, f. I:40v, f. I:47v, f. I:105v, f. I:131v, f. I:135v, f. I:135v, f. I:145v, etc.). |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | A marginal insertion line on f. I:135v and one on f. I:137r are slightly affected by torn folio edges. Otherwise the manuscript is in good condition with browned edges and broken corners. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink at the right of f. I:1r and f. I:236v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 10–13 lines per page. On ff. I:55v–90r the commentary is written above and below the mūla in hourglass layout. |
Hand 1: | The first hand is clear and straight, written with a reed with a thick nib. |
Hand 2: | A second hand, seen on f. I:22r–f. I:25v, tilts letters left and bends vertical lines concave to the right. |
Additions: |
Marginal corrections in the same hand are common in other hands occasional. A folio containing a poem in an old Hindustani, described as the third work, accompanies the manuscript. |
Color: | Invocation, introduction of speakers, final rubric, and numbers are painted over in orange, and mistakes in yellow, on f. I:1v–f. I:21v, f. I:26r–f. I:186r, f. I:188r–f. I:188v, the first line of f. I:190r, f. I:205v, f. I:231r; highlighting of numbers ceases on f. I:219r–f. I:220v, f. I:222r–f. I:222v. The use of orange is absent after the first line of f. I:186r–f. I:187v, f. I:189r–f. I:189v, f. I:190v–f. I:205r, f. I:206r–f. I:218v, f. I:221r–f. I:221v, f. I:223r–f. I:230v, f. I:231v–f. I:236v. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |