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 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–44v |
Author: | Mahādeva Paṇḍita |
Title: | Harivaṁśoddyota |
Rubric: |
f. 1v
.. atha hari!b!<v>aṁśodyoto likhyate .. |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
asaṁbhavam iti . vidyut . vidyotanamātrakarī .. aśanir haṁtrī . rohitam iṁdradhanur !evācakraṁ!<eva cakraṁ>/<vācakaṁ> .. anuśuśruma ity anena yajñena yajñam a!ma!<ya>jaṁta devāṇ[V] 10.90.16a iti srūtiḥ tatra pramāṇām iti darśitaṁ . uccāvacāni anekaprakārāṇi apsu bhavattvād āpavo brahmā .. virājaṁ brahmāṇaṁ viṣṇur asṛjat .. savirājaṁ manuṁ . tatra na saṁbhṛgvādirūpo nārāyaṇavisargaḥ .. !saṁtva!<sattvaṁ> !maha!<mahad> iti . puruṣo manuḥ .. |
Explicit: |
f. 44r
<...> śakalabhārataśravaṇasamāpanayanam . tena daśakṛttvobhārataśravaṇāmokṣo pi durlabho yathoktācāravaṁtaḥ puṁsaḥ pratiparvakṛtyama hi na cocyamāne tu viprebhyo rājanyaḥ parvaṇi parvaṇīti . haviṣyaṁ yavavrīhitilamudgaghṛtāni . hiraṇyarūpamaṁtra . yad vā śobhanavarṇaṁ hiraṇyam !itty!<ity> anvayaḥ .. |
Final rubric: |
f. 44r
.. iti hari!b!<v>aṁśodyotaḥ samāptaḥ .. |
Colophon: |
f. 44r
varṣe saṁvat 1835 jyeṣṭamāse śuklapakṣe triyodaśyāṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ kṛtāḥ .. |
Note: | The manuscript contains a non-metrical commentary on the Harivaṁśa without the base text itself. The glossing of words and technical phrasing of commentaries such as iti śeṣaḥ and ity arthaḥ is prevalent throughout. Words and phrases cited do not correlate closely with the Pune critical edition of the Harivaṁśa itself, but most of the topics dealt with in the manuscript are found in the Harivaṁśa. Topics mentioned in final rubrics in the text include the following: pṛthūpākhyāna on f. 3r, ādityavaṁśānukīrtana on f. 4r, rukmiṇivadha on f. 15r, pārijātaharaṇa on f. 18v, jalakrīḍā on f. 21v, harivaṁśa on f. 22v, śambaravadha on f. 23r, hariharātmakastava on f. 24v, bāṇayuddha āścarya on f. 24v, bhaviṣya on f. 25v, prāgvaṁśapramāsṛṣṭi on f. 33v, puṣkaraprādurbhāva on f. 42r, varāhaprādurbhāva on f. 42v, kaśyapastava on f. 43v, and vāmanaprādurbhāva on f. 44r. The commentary, not mentioned explicitly by Parashuram Lakshman Vaidya in his introduction to the critical edition of the Harivaṁśa p. xiv, was probably appropriately considered by him a ṭippana. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 43 folia |
Dimension: | 39.9 x 16.5 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated on the upper left and lower right on the verso of each folio but on the recto of the last, f. 44 . Folio number 15 is skipped, although the text appears to be continuous between f. 14 and f. 16 and the number 15 is written beneath number 14 on the verso of f. 14 by another hand by which is also written in a mixture of lang Sanskrit and lang Hindi in the upper left corner, "The number 14 and 15 occur on one and the same" ( quote caturdaśa pañcadaśa !ai!<ai>katra hai aṁka ). |
Formula: | 1–14, 16–44 |
Signatures: | harivaṁ0 u0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin (harivaṁśa u0 on f. 1v, and hari0 u0 on f. 2–f. 4, f. 6, and f. 10), and rāma appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on each folio. |
Collation: | single folia |
Condition: | Excellent. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in green ink on the right of f. 1r and f. 44v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Twelve lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Clearly written with a reed. |
Additions: |
Insertions appear in the bottom margin on f. 13r, and f. 19r; in the right margin on f. 35r, and in the left margin on f. 33r, and f. 37v. |
Color: | The invocation, title, colophons, daṇḍas and double daṇḍas appear in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow on f. 6v, f. 11v, f. 20r, f. 30v, and crossed out in red on f. 19v, f. 24v, f. 26r, f. 40r, f. 42r. |
Border: | Triple vertical lines in red frame the left and right margins and left and right edges of each page. On f. 1v and f. 44r the text is framed in a very attractive bordering device in yellow, black, and red. |
Illustration: | In the center of f. 1v and f. 44r is a drawing of a lotus in maroon, red, green, and yellow. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the 13th day in the bright half in the month of {j}yezWa in the year 1835 of the vikramasaṁvat era, which corresponds with Monday, 8 June 1778 c.e.. |
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: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Itihāsa. Narrative, Epic, History |