Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2788 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 915 |
Locus: | ff. 1v-22v (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | anuśāsanaparvan |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: 1|| oṃ viśvasmai namaḥ 1 oṃ viṣṇave namaḥ 2 oṃ vaṣaṭkārāya namaḥ 3 |
Explicit: |
f. 22r: oṃ akṣobhyāya namaḥ 99 Note: 999 107 || oṃ sarvapraharṇāyudhāya namaḥ 1000 |
Final rubric: |
f. 22v: iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāśikyāṃ ānuśāsanike parvaṇi dānadharme bhagavato śrīviṣṇoḥ sahasranāmāvalī saṃpūrṇam |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | Paper. Holes for the cord at top. |
Extent: | 22 |
Dimension: | 25.1 x 11.1 cm |
Foliation: | 22 leaves, foliated 1-22.
formula: 1-22 |
Layout: | Written in 23-25 lines per leaf. Written along the shorter edge, like a European book. Each lines has a name of viSNu. Verse numbers, I guess, noted in the left besides text (see the '1' and '107' below). |
Color: | Virtually every other folio is colored yellow. Mistakes covered over 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 -- Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Record revised: | 17 August 2010 |
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