Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 351 |
Repository: | Rare Book %amp; Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 877 |
Locus: | ff. 1r-33v (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | śāntiparvan, mokṣadharmaparvan, paṭala 3 ??? |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: janmejaya uvāca || bhagavan śrotum ikṣāmi satyaṃ sukka?sya suvrataṃ || pa?ra?sa? Note: these three syllables very faint, and maybe three syllables lost in damage after that vādaṃ vyāsasya ca sukasya ca || me kaputreṇa yadbhutaṃ tan me brūhi pitāmaha || vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca śṛṇu[missing: ] Note: (Toke) maybe 3-4 characters lost in damage to rājan yathā teṣāṃ mahātmanaḥ | saṃvādaṃ tadbhutasya yatra vṛtraṃ kathaṃ canaḥ |
Explicit: |
f. 33r: akṣayaṃ labhate lokān viṣṇulokaṃ sa gachati || nityam abhyāsa me yogī yogīno mokṣam āpnuyāt || |
Final rubric: |
33r: iti śrīmahābhārate satasāhasryāṃ sihitāyāṃ mokṣadharmmaśāstre vyāsaśukasaṃvāde tṛtīyapaṭala samāptā || || |
Colophon: |
f. 33v: saṃvata 1582 samaye srāvanavadi dvatī bhrāguru vāsare || liṣitaṃ pa Note: [TK] partly rubbed off ḍitabhra Note: [TK] best guess, near illegible; one or maybe two--judging by no characters missing end of next line--characters destroyed by damage na Note: [TK] presumably ending something in the instrumental] paṃḍitalodīkasya pāṭhārthaṃ Note: [TK] = Sunday, 6 August, 1525 |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | paper |
Extent: | 33 |
Dimension: | 6.6 x 22.8 cm |
Foliation: | 33 leaves, foliated 1-33.
formula: 1-33 |
Condition: | Most folios are water-stained. Folio 33 is worn away such as to obscure some of the writing on the right of the folio. | |
Layout: | Written in 4-5 lines per leaf. |
Hand 1: | Regularly substitutes s for ś, e.g. srībhhagavān on f. 5v, line 2, ṛ for ri, e.g. mṛyate on f. 6v, line 1. |
Additions: |
DN: Mistakes indicated by two vertical strokes above the syllable in question. A few marginal corrections. TK:
F. 1r: TK:
F. 33v: : |
Color: | Evidence that the margins of many of the folios and some of the folios themselves were once colored yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over double daṇḍas and every other syllable of the invocation, the introduction of speakers, and part of the colophon. |
Origin: | saMvat 1582; Sunday, 1525-08-06; (not 1639 [DN]) |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 16th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts -- India -- 16th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Record revised: | ???date mo.??? 2010 |
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