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)
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:jvaraharastotra = 10.63.25-29
Incipit: f. 1r:
jvara uvāca | namāmi tvāṃnaṃtaśaktiṃ pareśaṃ
sarvātmānaṃ kevalaṃ jñaptimātraṃ ||
(BhP. 10.63.25ab)
Explicit: f. 1r:
...
(BhP. 10.63.29)
Final rubric: f. 1r:
iti śrīmanmahābhāgavate daśamaska{ṃ}dhe uttarārddhajvaraharastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ śūbhaṃ bhavatu ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 1v-2v (incomplete)
Incipit: f. 1v:
oṃ namaḥ pakṣirājāya niśitakuliśavaranakhāyāneka koṭibrahmāṃḍakapālamālaṃkṛtāya sakalakulamahānāgabhūṣaṇāya sarvabhūtanivāraṇāya nṛsiṃhagarvanirvāya{pa?}karaṇāya sakalaripuraṃbhāṭvīmoṭanamahānīlāya śarabhasāluvāyad ...
Explicit: f. 2v:
... bhūcaragrahaṃ ba khecaragrahaṃ vetālagrahaṃ ku
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:2
Dimension:11.3 x 18 cm
Foliation: formula: 1-2
Condition:excellent
Layout:

There is one text that spreads across the two folios and are written in the same hand - theses are the mAlA mantra. The other text, in full is the Jvaraharasotra text. The two should be considered a single ms and not separated. [BF]

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

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Transcription

f. 1r:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || jvaraharastotraprāraṃbhaḥ | jvara uvāca | namāmi tvāṃnaṃtaśaktiṃ pareśaṃ
sarvātmānaṃ kevalaṃ jñaptimātraṃ || ...
(BhP. 10.63.25ab)
(BhP. 10.63.29) ... iti śrīmanmahābhāgavate daśamaska{ṃ}dhe uttarārddhajvaraharastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ śūbhaṃ bhavatu ||
f. 1v:
atha maṃtrāṃtaraṃ || oṃ namaḥ pakṣirājāya niśitakuliśavaranakhāyāneka koṭibrahmāṃḍakapālamālaṃkṛtāya sakalakulamahānāgabhūṣaṇāya sarvabhūtanivāraṇāya nṛsiṃhagarvanirvāya{pa?}karaṇāya sakalaripuraṃbhāṭvīmoṭanamahānīlāya śarabhasāluvāyad ...
f. 2v:
... bhūcaragrahaṃ ba khecaragrahaṃ vetālagrahaṃ ku
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010