Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2248
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:990

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-44r (complete)
Author:mahādeva paṇḍita
Title:harivaṃśoddyota
Cover rubric:ḥa[p]{r}ivaṃśoddyota
Incipit: f. 1v:
atha harivaṃśodyoto likhyate || asaṃbhavam iti | vidhūta | vidhotanamātrakarī || aśanir haṃtri | rohitam iṃdradhanur evācakraṃ || anuśruśruma ity anena yajñena yatmamajaṃtadevā iti srūtiḥ tatra pramāṇām iti darśitaṃ | uccāvacāni anekaprakārāṇi
Explicit: f. 44r:
śakalabhārataśravaṇasamāpanayanam | tena daśakṛttvobhārataśravaṇāmokṣopidurlabhoyathoktācāravaṃtaḥ puṃsaḥ pratiparvakṛtya mahi xxxxmāne tu viprebhyo rājanyaḥ parvaṇiparvaṇīti | haviṣyaṃ yavavrīhitilamudgadhṛtāni | hiraṇyarūpamaṃtra | yad vāśobhanavarṇaṃ hiraṇyam ity anvayaḥ ||
Final rubric: f. 44r:
iti haribaṃśodyotaḥ samāptaḥ |
Colophon: f. 44r:
barṣe saṃva 1835 jyeṣṭamāse śuklapakṣe triyodaśyāṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ kṛtāḥ | śubhaṃ |
Signatures:not notednot noted
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:43
Dimension:39.9 x 16.5 cm
Foliation:margin not noted
formula: I: 1-44 folio number "15" is skipped, although the text appears to be consistent between f. 14-16
Collation:single folia
Condition:Excellent.
Binding: none
Layout:Twelve lines per side per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1:Clear.
Additions:

Some corrections in the margins.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, title, colophons, daNDas and double daNDas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.
Border: f. 1v:
and f. 44r:
are framed in a very attractive bordering device in yellow, black, and red. In the center of both these folio is a drawing of a lotus in deep red, red, green, and yellow.

History

Origin: vikrama 1835; īṣO 8601 1778-06-08

“barṣe saṃva 1835 jyeṣṭhamāse śuklapakṣe triyodaśyāṃ saṃpūrṇaṃkṛtāḥ |”

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

SubjectSL:Itihāsa. Narrative, Epic, History

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || atha harivaṃśodyoto likhyate || asaṃbhavam iti | vidhūta | vidhotanamātrakarī || aśanir haṃtri | rohitam iṃdradhanur evācakraṃ || anuśruśruma ity anena yajñena yatmamajaṃtadevā iti srūtiḥ tatra pramāṇām iti darśitaṃ | uccāvacāni anekaprakārāṇi ...
f. 44r:
... śakalabhārataśravaṇasamāpanayanam | tena daśakṛttvobhārataśravaṇāmokṣopidurlabhoyathoktācāravaṃtaḥ puṃsaḥ pratiparvakṛtya mahi xxxxmāne tu viprebhyo rājanyaḥ parvaṇiparvaṇīti | haviṣyaṃ yavavrīhitilamudgadhṛtāni | hiraṇyarūpamaṃtra | yad vāśobhanavarṇaṃ hiraṇyam ity anvayaḥ || iti haribaṃśodyotaḥ samāptaḥ | barṣe saṃva 1835 jyeṣṭamāse śuklapakṣe triyodaśyāṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ kṛtāḥ | śubhaṃ |
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010