Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:1975
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1372
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1421

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1r (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Jvaraharastotra
Incipit: f. 1r:
jvara uvāca .
namāmi tvā!ṁ!<>naṁ
taśaktiṁ pareśaṁ sarvātmānaṁ kevalaṁ jñaptimātraṁ ..
viśvotpattisthānasaṁ
rodhahetuṁ yat tad brahma brahmaliṁgaṁ praśāṁtaṁ ..1..
Note:
BhP. 10.63.25
Explicit: f. 1r:
śrī bha0ca .
triśiras te prasanno <'>haṁ vyetu te majjvarād bha
yam ..
yo nau smarati saṁvādaṁ tasya tva[ṁ]n na bhaved bhayam..5..
Note:
BhP. 10.63.29
Final rubric: f. 1r:
iti śrīmanmahābhāga
vate daśamaska<ṁ>dhe uttarārddhe jvaraharastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ
Colophon:none
Note:The Jvaraharastotra, which appears on on f. 1r, consists of BhP. 10.63.25–10.63.29.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 1v–2v (complete)
Title:mālāmantra
Incipit: f. 1v:
õ namaḥ pakṣirājāya niśi
takuliśavaranakhāyānekakoṭibrahmāṁḍaka
pālamā!laṁ!<lā>()kṛtāya sakalakulamahānāgabhū
ṣaṇāya sarvabhūtanivāraṇāya nṛsiṁhagarvani
rvāpakaraṇāya sakalaripuraṁbhāṭavīmoṭana
mahānīlāya śarabhasāluvāya drāṁdrīṁdrūṁpra
veśāya
Explicit: f. 2v:
sarvaduṣṭā
nnāśayannāśaya
Final rubric: f. 2v:
iti mālā
maṁtrasamāptaḥ
Colophon:none
Note:The rubric on f. 1v and the final rubric on f. 2v call the second text in this ms. Mālāmantra. The term is generic; the short work has yet to be identified more specifically.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:2
Dimension:11.3 x 18 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Excellent.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout: The Jvaraharastotra is written in 11 lines on f. 1r.
Layout:The Mālāmantra is written in 7 lines per page on f1v-f2v.

Hands

Additions:

In a different hand from either text, “Jvarahara” in the top left corner on f. 1r and “Jvaraharastotra” on f. 1v and f. 2v are written in grey above numbers also in grey.

Decoration

Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin:not given not given
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:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 18th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2vf. 2v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

work 1:
f.1r
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. jvaraharastotraprāraṁbhaḥ . jvara uvāca . namāmi tvā!ṁ!<>naṁ
Line 2: taśaktiṁ pareśaṁ sarvātmānaṁ kevalaṁ jñaptimātraṁ .. viśvotpattisthānasaṁ
Line 3: rodhahetuṁ yat tad brahma brahmaliṁgaṁ praśāṁtaṁ ..1.. [
Line 9: [
śrī bha0ca . triśiras te prasanno <'>haṁ vyetu te majjvarād bha
Line 10: yam .. yo nau smarati saṁvādaṁ tasya tva[ṁ]n na bhaved bhayam..5..
iti śrīmanmahābhāga
Line 11: vate daśamaska<ṁ>dhe uttarārddhe jvaraharastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ
śūbhaṁ bhavatu ..

f.1v
Line 1: work 2:
atha maṁtrāṁtaraṁ ..

õ namaḥ pakṣirājāya niśi
Line 2: takuliśavaranakhāyānekakoṭibrahmāṁḍaka
Line 3: pālamā!laṁ!<lā>()kṛtāya sakalakulamahānāgabhū
Line 4: ṣaṇāya sarvabhūtanivāraṇāya nṛsiṁhagarvani
Line 5: rvāpakaraṇāya sakalaripuraṁbhāṭavīmoṭana
Line 6: mahānīlāya śarabhasāluvāya drāṁdrīṁdrūṁpra
Line 7: veśāya praveśayaāveśāya 2 staṁbhaya 2 bhāṣa[
f.2r
[
Line 7: bhūcaragrahaṁ ba0 2 khecaragrahaṁ0 2 vetālagrahaṁ0 2 kū
f.2v
Line 1: ṣmāṁḍagrahaṁ baṁ0 2 [
Line 5: [ sarvaduṣṭā
Line 6: nnāśayannāśaya huṁ phaṭ svāhā ..

iti mālā
Line 7: maṁtrasamāptaḥ
Record revised:4 November 2011