Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2664
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:858

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–15v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Gajendramokṣaṇa
Incipit: f. 1v:
.. śatānīka uvāca .. ..
mayā hi devadevasya
viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ ..
śrutāḥ saṁbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata
..1..
Explicit: f. 15r:

gītā sahasranāmaiva stavarājo
hy anusmṛtiḥ ..
gajeṁdramokṣaṇaṁ caiva paṁca ratnāni bhārate ..60..
Final rubric: f. 15r:
.. iti śrī
mahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi gajeṁdramokṣaṇaṁ
nāmādhyāyaḥ ..
Colophon: f. 15r:
.. pavanārthaṁ vaiṣṇavadvārikāṁ dāsa idaṁ0
Note:

Verse 160 calls five texts, namely the Bhagavadgītā, Viṣṇusahasranāma, Bhīṣmastavarāja, Anusmṛti, and Gajarājamokṣaṇa, the five jewels (Pañcaratna) in the Mahābhārata.

For a description and additional transcription of the Gajarājamokṣaṇa, which does not, as claimed in the final rubric, occur in the Śāntiparvan or anywhere in the Mahābhārata, see SLMsCat UPenn MsIndic5, SLMsCat UPenn 488, and SLMsCat UPenn 2486.

Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:15
Dimension:10.7 x 18.7 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:The edges of folios 1 and 15 are mangled. The folios are badly stained.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 8–9 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold characters is wavy lines.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow that has turned brown.

On f. 15v a different hand has recopied the signature.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas and triple lines on four sides of numbers are written in red.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin: 17–
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 – 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v,f. 6rf. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v,f. 8rf. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v,f. 10rf. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v,f. 11rf. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v,f. 12rf. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v,f. 13rf. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v,f. 14rf. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v,f. 15rf. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15vf. 15v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1v
Line 1: .. śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ .. .. śatānīka uvāca .. .. mayā hi devadevasya
Line 2: viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ .. śrutāḥ saṁbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata
Line 3: ..1.. [
f.15r
Line 2: [ ākāśāt patitaṁ toyaṁ yathā gachati sāgare .. sarvadevanama
Line 3: skāraḥ keśavaṁ pratigachati ..59..
gītā sahasranāmaiva stavarājo
Line 4: hy anusmṛtiḥ .. gajeṁdramokṣaṇaṁ caiva paṁca ratnāni bhārate ..60..
.. iti śrī
Line 5: mahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi gajeṁdramokṣaṇaṁ
Line 6: nāmādhyāyaḥ .. .. śubhaṁ bhavatu ..
.. pavanārthaṁ vaiṣṇavadvārikāṁ dāsa idaṁ0
f.15v
Line 6: ()
Record revised:8 March 2012