Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2563
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:903

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–8v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhīṣmastavarāja
Incipit: f. 1v:
janame<ja>ya uvāca ..

oṁ


śaratalpe śayānas tu bhāratānāṁ
pitāmahaḥ ..
katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ cit yogam adhārayat ..1..
Note:
MBh. 12.47.1
Explicit: f. 8v:

stavarāja<ḥ> samāpto yaṁ
viṣṇor adbhutakarmaṇaḥ ..
gāṁgeyena purā gīto mahāpātakanāśanaḥ ..28
Final rubric: f. 8v:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vai<yā>sikyāṁ śāntiparvaṇi
rājadharmeṣu śrībhīṣmaproktaṁ viṣṇustavarājastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
Colophon: f. 8v:
samvat 1913
Note:The Bhīṣmastavarāja is included in the text of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata at MBh. 12.47.1–72, yet the text as an independent treatise typically appends a phalaśruti not included in the critical text and most of which is also absent from the critical apparatus.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:8
Dimension:13.2 x 23.5 cm
Collation: Single folia.
Condition:Excellent.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 12 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written clearly with a reed with a broad nib that distinguishes thick and thin strokes and produces sharp angles. Same hand as UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 Item 773, Item 2639, and Ms. Indic 5.
Additions:

Marginal corrections throughout.

In Persian script on f. 1r is written, “BIzma prag {m}ahABArata m [BIzma hij]” .

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas, and the rubric appear in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, for example, on f. 4v, f. 5v, and f. 6r. Additional colors are used in borders.
Border:A frame consisting of two horizontal orange bands trimmed with black lines within thin orange lines bounded by two similar vertical bands frame the text.

History

Origin: The colophon dates the manuscript to the year saṁvat 1913, equivalent to 1856-57 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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Itihāsa. Narrative, Epic, History

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. [1]rf. [1]r  
f. [1]v,f. 2rf. [1]v  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. 8vf. 8v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: bhīṣmastavarāja
f.1v
Line 1:

oṁ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..

janame<ja>ya uvāca ..

oṁ

śaratalpe śayānas tu bhāratānāṁ
Line 2: pitāmahaḥ .. katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ cit yogam adhārayat ..1.. [
f.7v
Line 6: [ vaiśaṁpāyana uvāca [
f.8v
Line 6: [ stavarāja<ḥ> samāpto yaṁ
Line 7: viṣṇor adbhutakarmaṇaḥ .. gāṁgeyena purā gīto mahāpātakanāśanaḥ ..28
f.8v
Line 8:
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vai<yā>sikyāṁ śāntiparvaṇi
Line 9: rājadharmeṣu śrībhīṣmaproktaṁ viṣṇustavarājastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ ..
rāma ṇāma .
Line 10: śubhamastu
samvat 1913
Record revised:15 December 2011