Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2231
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:918

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-19r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:aśvamedhaparvan
Incipit: f. 1r: :
atha dhyānaṃ || paraṃ parasmāt prakṛtter anādim ekaṃ viśiṣṭabahudhā guhāsu ||
sarvālayasaṃrvajagannivāsatvām eva viṣṇuṃ śaraṇaṃ prapadye ||1||
Note: [TK] this is followed by another verse, then:
arjuna uvāca || yed akaṃ niṣkalaṃ brahma ...
(MBh. 06.003A.001-002 = 06.003B.001-002)
Explicit: ff. 18v-19r:
sarvaciṃtā vinirmuktaṃ niścitaṃ vimalaṃ bhavet ||
sa yogī brahmanirvāṇa labhate
f. 19r:
nātra saṃśayaḥ ||32||
(Mbh. {verse and preceding ones not in crit.})
Final rubric: f. 19r: :
iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrikāyāṃ vayyaśikyā aśvamedhaparvaṇī sūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde uttaragītāyāṃ tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ ||3||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:19
Dimension:11.1 x 15.5 cm
Foliation:19 leaves, foliated 1-19.
formula: 1-19
Layout:Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over. Orange powder rubbed in over colophons, introductions of speakers, and numbers. A few marginal corrections. Drawing, in red ink, of Gaṇeśa on folio 1 recto.

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

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:
atha dhyānaṃ || paraṃ parasmāt prakṛtter anādim ekaṃ viśiṣṭabahudhā guhāsu ||
sarvālayasaṃrvajagannivāsatvām eva viṣṇuṃ śaraṇaṃ prapadye ||1||
Note: [TK] this is followed by another verse, then:
arjuna uvāca || yed akaṃ niṣkalaṃ brahma ...
(MBh. 06.003A.001-002 = 06.003B.001-002)
f. 18v:
... sarvaciṃtā vinirmuktaṃ niścitaṃ vimalaṃ bhavet ||
sa yogī brahmanirvāṇa labhate
f. 19r:
nātra saṃśayaḥ ||32|| iti hariḥ oṃ tatsad
(Mbh. {verse and preceding ones not in crit.}) iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrikāyāṃ vayyaśikyā aśvamedhaparvaṇī sūpaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde uttaragītāyāṃ tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ ||3|| śrīrāmāya namaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ || ||
śrī kāśīviśvesvarāya namaḥ ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010