Manuscript Identifiers

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

Contents

Work 1

Locus:1r-4r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhīṣmaparvan
Cover rubric:atha durgāstotraprāraṃbhaḥ ||
Incipit: f. 1r:
sa
Note: [TK] insert M
jaya uvāca || dhārtarāṣṭrabalaṃ dṛṣṭvā yuddhāya samupasthitaṃ ||
arjunasya hitārthāya kṛṣṇo vacanam abravīt ||1||
(MBh. crit. star. (After 6.22.16, K2.4 B Da Dn D2 (lines 1-7 only).4.7.8 ins.))
Explicit: f. 4r:
yato dharmas tataḥ kṛṣṇo yataḥ kṛṣṇas tato jayaḥ ||29||
(Mbh. crit. star. (end of the section cited above) ends)
Final rubric: f. 4r:
|| iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇī durgāstotrasaṃpūrṇaṃ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:4
Dimension:10 x 15 cm
Foliation:4 leaves, foliated 1-3, f. [iv] blank.
formula: 1-3, [i]>
Condition:Good condition, legible.
Layout:Written in 9 lines per leaf.

History

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. ”

Subject headings

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

Facsimile

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Transcription

|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || atha durgāstotraprāraṃbhaḥ ||
f. 1r:
sa
Note: [TK] insert M
jaya uvāca || dhārtarāṣṭrabalaṃ dṛṣṭvā yuddhāya samupasthitaṃ ||
arjunasya hitārthāya kṛṣṇo vacanam abravīt ||1||
(MBh. crit. star. (After 6.22.16, K2.4 B Da Dn D2 (lines 1-7 only).4.7.8 ins.))
f. 4r:
yato dharmas tataḥ kṛṣṇo yataḥ kṛṣṇas tato jayaḥ ||29||
(Mbh. crit. star. (end of the section cited above) ends) || iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇī durgāstotrasaṃpūrṇaṃ || śubham astu || ||
śrīdurgāyai namaḥ ||
śrīśrītārām caṇdrārpaṇam astu || ||
śrī ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010