Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2476 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 870 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–[19]v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhīṣmastavarāja |
Final rubric: |
[[facs=f1r, locus=f. 1r]]
.. bhīṣmastutiprāraṁbhaḥ .. |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
.. ja!nme!<name>jaya uvāca .. .. śaratalpe śayānas tu bhāratānāṁ pitāmahaḥ .. katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ ccid yogam adhāraya!n!<t> ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 12.47.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 18v
stavarāja<ḥ> samāpto yaṁ viṣṇo r adbhutakarmaṇaḥ .. gāṁgeyena purā gīto mahāpātakanāśa naḥ ..143.. ( MBh. 12.47.65*98, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 18v
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryasaṁhitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi bhīṣmapitāmahaproktaḥ stavarājaḥ samāpta |
Final rubric: |
f. [19]v
.. bhīṣmastutisamāptaḥ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: |
See Ms. Coll.390, Item 490, Notefor a description of the Bhīṣmastavarāja. The cover rubric and back final rubric call the text the Bhīṣmastuti. The final rubric on f. 18v calls it the Stavarāja proclaimed by Bhīṣma |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 20 folia |
Dimension: | 10.3 x 16 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio 1–[19]. Pages [[facs=f0v, locus=f. [0]v]] , [[facs=f1r, locus=f. 1r]] (these two pages have not been digitally imaged), and f. [19]r are blank. |
Formula: | [0], 1–18, [19] |
Signatures: | bhī0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma0 appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each numbered folio. |
Collation: | Single and paired folios. |
Formula: | [0], 1, ..., 9, 10–11, 12–13, 14–15, 16, ..., [19] |
Condition: | Very good with slightly browned edges. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of [[facs=f1r, locus=f. [0]r]] and f. [19]v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 7 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted leftward in the same hand as Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2475 and Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2334. |
Additions: |
Mistakes are covered over with yellow which is then sometimes written over with black (e.g. f. 6v, f. 11r) and at the end of f. 6r drawn over with black flowers. There are few marginal corrections in a hand other than the scribe's on f. 4r, f. 6r, f. 10v, and f. 17v. |
Color: | Invocation, final rubric, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow sometimes with a design in black over each syllable covered. |
Border: | Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Bhīṣmastavarāja. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |