Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2462
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:868

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–22v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhīṣmastavarāja
Rubric: f. 1r
.. atha bhīṣmastavarāja . prāraṁbhaḥ ..
Rubric: f. 2r
atha bhīṣmastavarājaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 2r
ja!nme!<name>jaya uvāca ..
śaratalpe śayānas tu kauravāṇāṁ pitāmahaḥ ..
katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ ca yogam adhārayat ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 12.47.1 )
Explicit: f. 21v
stavarājaḥ samāpto yaṁ viṣṇor adbhutakarmaṇaḥ
gāṁgeyena purā gīto mahāpātakanāśanaḥ ..127.. ( MBh. 12.47.65*98, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 21rf. 22v
.. iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi rājadharmeṣu bhīṣmasta varājaḥ saṁpūrṇaḥ ..
.. ratna ..3..
Final rubric: f. 22v
.. iti śrībhīṣmastavarājasamāptaḥ ..
Note:See Ms. Coll.390, Item 490, Notefor a description of the Bhīṣmastavarāja.
Colophon:none
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper
Extent:22 folia
Dimension:10.1 x 16 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. The number was not written in the lower right margin on f. 9v, and the number in the upper left margin on f. 18v is missing because the corner is broken off.
   Formula:1–22
   Signatures:bhī0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin (except on f. 18v), and sta0 appears opposite it in the upper right margin on the verso of each folio.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:The upper left corner on f. 18 is broken off, but no text besides the signature and number is affected.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and on the lower right of f. 22v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, regular characters in the same hand as UPenn 2487 and UPenn 2388.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow or written over.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, rubrics, final rubrics, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow or written over. Orange powder is rubbed in over numbers.
Border:Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in two sets of double red lines appears on f. 1r.

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 – Bhīṣmastavarāja.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Record history

Revised: 04 March 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 1r     f. 1r  
f. 1v, f. 2r     f. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v, f. 3r     f. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v, f. 4r     f. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v, f. 5r     f. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v, f. 6r     f. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v, f. 7r     f. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v, f. 8r     f. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v, f. 9r     f. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v, f. 10r     f. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v, f. 11r     f. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v, f. 12r     f. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v, f. 13r     f. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v, f. 14r     f. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v, f. 15r     f. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v, f. 16r     f. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v, f. 17r     f. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v, f. 18r     f. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v, f. 19r     f. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v, f. 20r     f. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v, f. 21r     f. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v, f. 22r     f. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22v     f. 22v  


Transcription (text structure)

.. atha bhīṣmastavarāja . prāraṁbhaḥ ..
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
atha bhīṣmastavarājaprāraṁbhaḥ ..
ja!nme!<name>jaya uvāca ..
śaratalpe śayānas tu kauravāṇāṁ pitāmahaḥ ..
katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ ca yogam adhārayat ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 12.47.1 )
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śuklapakṣe divā bhūmau gaṁgāyāṁ cottarāyaṇe ..
dhanyās tāta mariṣyaṁti hṛdayasthe janārddane ..26.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 490, verse 123)
stavarājaḥ samāpto yaṁ viṣṇor adbhutakarmaṇaḥ
gāṁgeyena purā gīto mahāpātakanāśanaḥ ..127.. ( MBh. 12.47.65*98, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh)

.. iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁhitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi rājadharmeṣu bhīṣmasta varājaḥ saṁpūrṇaḥ ..
.. ratna ..3..
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
śrīśubhaṁ bhavatu ..
.. cha ..
.. iti śrībhīṣmastavarājasamāptaḥ ..