Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 489 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 845 |
Locus: | ff. 1v-10r (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | śāntiparvan |
Incipit: |
F. 1v: || śatānīka uvāca || || mahātejo mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśārada akṣīṇakarmabaṃdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama 1 |
Explicit: |
F. 10r: saṃsāra eva sīmaṃto yaḥ svānāṃ kila kathyate nanu dhyāyati yo dehī kathayāmi ca tatsukhaṃ 73 sarvabaṃdhavinirmuktaḥ paraṃ padam avāpnuyāt yaḥ paṭhet prātarutthāya bhaved vaiṣṇavo naraḥ 14|| |
Final rubric: |
F. 10r: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ anusmṛti samāptā || || |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | paper |
Extent: | 10 |
Dimension: | 9.3 x 10.5 cm |
Foliation: | foliated 1-10. F. 10 foliated on recto by another hand.
formula: 1-10 |
Layout: | Written in 7 lines per leaf. |
Color: | Red ink used for invocations, introduction of speakers and colophon. |
Illustration: | Ornamental designs in red on
f. 1r: and f. 10v.: |
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 -- Anusmṛti. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Record revised: | ???date mo.??? 2010 |
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