Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2486
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:854

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-21v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:śāntiparvan
Incipit: f. 1v:
śatānīka uvāca || mayā hi devadeveśa viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ ||
śrutvā saṃbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata ||1||
Explicit: f. 21r--21v:
mama śāstrāni ye nityaṃ pūjayaṃti paṭhaṃti ca ||
tena rāgajasārdūla nityaṃ yātāmaāṃti kiṃ ||161|| gītāsahasranāmaṃ ca stavarājam anusmṛtaṃ ||
gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃ
f. 21v:
caiva paṃcaratnāni bhārate ||162||
Final rubric: f. 21v:
iti śrīmanmahābhā(ra)te śatasāhasryasaṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi mokṣadharmme śaunakaśatānikasaṃvāde śrīgajeṃdramokṣastotrasaṃpūrṇam ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:21
Dimension:10.4 x 16 cm
Foliation:21 leaves, foliated 1-21. F. 1r blank.
formula: 1-21
Layout:Written in 21 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, introduction of speakers in bright red. Double daṇḍas written in darker red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.

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 -- Gajendramokṣaṇa.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || śatānīka uvāca || mayā hi devadeveśa viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ ||
śrutvā saṃbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata ||1||
f. 21r:
mama śāstrāni ye nityaṃ pūjayaṃti paṭhaṃti ca ||
tena rāgajasārdūla nityaṃ yātāmaāṃti kiṃ ||161|| gītāsahasranāmaṃ ca stavarājam anusmṛtaṃ ||
gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃ
f. 21v:
caiva paṃcaratnāni bhārate ||162|| iti śrīmanmahābhā(ra)te śatasāhasryasaṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi mokṣadharmme śaunakaśatānikasaṃvāde śrīgajeṃdramokṣastotrasaṃpūrṇam || śubhaṃ bhavat ||
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu || ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010