Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2639
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:988

Contents

Work 1

Locus:??? (complete)
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhagavadgītā (selected verses with commentary - śaivite praises)
Note: unclear as last folio is lost and only images on front folio. Text opens with a zloka, not a title.

   Work 1.1

   Part:saptaślokī gītā
   Colophon: ???:
iti śrī saptasalokī gītā ṭīkā vāle samāptam ||
   Language:???

   Work 1.2

   Part:vibhūtiyoga = [Bhṅ| 10]
   Incipit:oṃ śrībhagavān uvāca || bhūya eva mahābāho śṛṇu me paramaṃ vacaḥ ||
yat te {'}haṃ prīyamāṇāya vakṣyāmi hitakāmyayā ||1||
(Mbh. 6.32.1)
(BhG. 10.1)
   Explicit:...
(Mbh. 6.32.42)
(BhG. 10.42)
   Final rubric:iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidhāyaṃ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde arjunasaṃvāde vibhūtiyogo nāmadaśamodhyāyaḥ
   Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

   Work 1.3

   Incipit:oṃ atha dasa śrautāraṃ likhate || oṃdasa śrautāraśaṃkarācārajajī*care ||
   Final rubric: ???:
|| iti matsyaprathama avatāraṃ samāptam || 1 ||
   Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

   Work 1.4

   Locus:??? (complete)
   Incipit:oṃathakūrmāvatāraṃ || haje śrīnārāyaṇajī kūrmanūpaho*ttare || kūrma | kīmātāpadmāvato || pitā kaulavaṛṣī | gurusahajānaṃda || chatrīmānasarovara || paṭanedalaṃta || ma bhukaiṭabhadānolīdyo*dharaṃta || iti kūrmāvatāraṃ samāptam ||
(MBh. ???)
   Final rubric:iti śrī śaṃkarācāryyaviravitaṃ samkaṭāstotraṃ samāptam ||
   Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

   Work 1.5

   Incipit:oṃ namaḥ śivāya || oṃ jai śiva oṃkārā || hara śiva oṃkārā || brahmāvismasadāśiva arthaṃgīgaurā || oṃ hara hara hara ma || hādeva || 1 || ekānanavatarānanapaṃcānanarāje || śivapaṃcānanarāje || haṃsāsanagaruḍāsana || vṛṣabhāhanasāje || oṃ hara hara hara mahādeva || 2 || dvibhujacāra || caturbhujadasabhujatumasohai || śiva || dasabhujatumasohai || tīno nṛpa || niraktā tribhuvanajagamo hai
   Explicit:haraharamahAdeva || 7 || lakSMIvaragAyatrIvarapArvatIsaMge || zivapArvatIsaMge haraharadurgo traMbakazivagaurI aMge{should be saMge?} || oM hara hara hara mahAdeva || 8 || kAzI mai da{?}kana{ne?}dAbrahmacArIziva ekanaM ||

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:79
Dimension:9.5 x 16.8 cm
Foliation:in 7 sections, each numbered/foliated separately
formula: I: [i-iii], 1-12, [13], [iv-v]; II: 1-11, [i-ii]; III: 1-3, [i-ii], 4, [iii-iv], 5, [v-vi], 6, [vii-viii], 7, [xix], 8, [x-xi], 9, [xii-xiii], 10, [xiv-xv], 11, [xvi-xvii], 12-14; IV: 1-5, [6]; V: 1-6; VI: 1-3; VII: 1-3
Collation:bound on left side as book
Condition:very good-excellent; front page is fragile
Layout:3-5 lines (mostly 5)

Hands

Additions:

???

Decoration

Color:Select akSaras and the opening of verses, speakers, and colophons, printed in red; double daNDas in red. Text is bordered in red rectangle throughout the ms. Outer edges of ms were rubbed with a red paint, which may be due to the red background paint used for the images.
Border:Text is bordered in red rectangle throughout the ms.
Illustration:Illuminated mss. with images of avataras of Vishnu throughout the text. Opening of text is illuminated background. There are 13 images in total (counting the cover image). Most are of Avataras of Vishnu though the cover image is of four-armed GaNeza and Ziva (with 3rd eye)

History

Origin:"not given" zaka 1733 [=1811]
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.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.

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