Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2453 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 833 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–4v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Durgāstotra |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r: atha durgāstotraprāraṁbhaḥ .. |
Incipit: |
f. 1r: sa<ṁ> jaya uvāca .. dhārtarāṣṭrabalaṁ dṛṣṭvā yuddhāya samupasthi taṁ .. arjunasya hitārthāya kṛṣṇo vacanam abravīt ..1 Note: MBh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, lines 1–2 śuci<r> bhūtvā mahābāho saṁgrāmābhimukhe sthitaḥ .. parājayāya śatrūṇāṁ durgāstotram udīrayet ..2 Note: MBh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, lines 1–2 |
Explicit: |
f. 4r: yato dharmas tataḥ kṛṣṇo yataḥ kṛṣṇas tato jayaḥ ..29.. .. Note: Mbh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, line 57 |
Final rubric: |
f. 4r: .. iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparva!ṇī!<ṇi> durgāstotrasaṁ pūrṇaṁ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: |
The text of the Durgastotra is included in Appendix I in the critical apparatus of the Bhīṣmaparvan of the Pune critical edition of the Mahābhārata (MBh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, lines 1–57). The present manuscript ends with a single-line verse 29. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper. |
Extent: | 4 |
Dimension: | 10 x 15 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Excellent condition. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 9 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Legible. |
Additions: | None. Errors blotted out in black ink on f. 2v. |
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 – Bhīṣmaparva – Durgāstotra. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Record revised: | 27 February 2012 |
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