Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2666 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 851 |
Locus: | ff. 1v-8r (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | śāntiparvan |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: śatānika uvāca || mahāmate mahāprājña sarvaśāstraviśāradaḥ || akṣīṇakarmavaṃdhas tu puruṣo dvijasattama ||1|| |
Explicit: |
f. 8r: na vāsudevāt param asti maṃgalaṃ nā vāsudevāt param asti pāvanaṃ || na vāsudevāt param asti daivataṃ taṃ vāsudevaṃ praṇamaṃ na sīdati ||103|| imāṃ rahasyāṃ paramām anusmṛtiṃ yo dhītya vuddhiṃ labhate ca naiṣṭikīṃ || vihāya pāpān vinimucyasaṃkaṭāt sa vīnarā gauviṃdacaran mahīm imāṃ ||104|| |
Final rubric: |
f. 8r: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāśakyāṃ anusāsanike dānadhamau viṣṇur anusmṛtistotrasaṃpūrṇaṃm |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | Country-made paper. |
Extent: | 8 |
Dimension: | 11.8 x 23.6 cm |
Foliation: | 8 leaves, foliated 1-8. F. 8 foliated on recto; verso blank.
formula: 1-8 |
Layout: | Written in 8 lines per leaf. |
Color: | Invocation, colophon, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes rubbed out and written over or covered with yellow. | |
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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