Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2453 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 833 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–4v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Durgāstotra |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r
atha durgāstotraprāraṁbhaḥ .. |
Incipit: |
f. 1r
sa<ṁ>jaya uvāca .. dhārtarāṣṭrabalaṁ dṛṣṭvā yuddhāya samupasthitaṁ .. arjunasya hitārthāya kṛṣṇo vacanam abravīt ..1 (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, lines 1–2 ) śuci<r> bhūtvā mahābāho saṁgrāmābhimukhe sthitaḥ .. parājayāya śatrūṇāṁ durgāstotram udīrayet ..2 (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, lines 1–2 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 4r
yato dharmas tataḥ kṛṣṇo yataḥ kṛṣṇas tato jayaḥ ..29.. .. ( Mbh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, line 57 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 4r
.. iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparva!ṇī!<ṇi> durgāstotrasaṁpūrṇaṁ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: |
The text of the Durgastotra is included in Appendix I in the critical apparatus of the Bhīṣmaparvan of the Pune critical edition of the Mahābhārata (MBh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, lines 1–57). The present manuscript ends with a single-line verse 29. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 4 folia |
Dimension: | 10 x 15 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio, f. 1v–f. 3v. The verso of the last folio, f. [4]v, is blank. |
Formula: | 1–3, [4] |
Signatures: | du0 sto0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on f. 1v and f. 3v, du[0]rgā0 on f. 4v, and rām appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on f. 1v–f. 3v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Excellent condition. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 4v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 9 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Legible. |
Additions: | None. Errors blotted out in black ink on f. 2v. |
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 – Bhīṣmaparva – Durgāstotra. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |