Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:488
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:853

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-17v (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:śāntiparvan
Incipit: f. 1v:
śatānaka uvāca || || mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ
śrutvā saṃbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata 1
Note: [TK] a verse that I couldn't trace in the critical edition of the zAntiparvan
Explicit: f. 17v:
vaikuṃṭhaṃ duṣṭadamanaṃ bhaktidaṃ madhusūdanaṃ
etāni prātar utthāya saṃsmaraṃti ca ye janāḥ 32 sarvapāpai pramucyaṃ
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:16
Dimension:9.3 x 15.5 cm
Foliation:16 leaves, foliated 1-2, 4-17.
formula: 1-2, 4-17
Condition:F. 3 missing. Lacksed.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per leaf. Abbreviated title in top-left margin: ga* mo*

Decoration

Color:Red ink used to highlight change of speakers. Folios 5,7,9,11,13 and 15 colored yellow. Invocation, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas when written in red.
Illustration:Ornamental design in red on f. 1r.:

History

Origin: zaka 1743 [=1821]
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 -- Gajendramokṣaṇa.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || || śatānaka uvāca || || mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ
śrutvā saṃbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata 1
Note: [TK] a verse that I couldn't trace in the critical edition of the zAntiparvan
f. 2v:
kiṃ tasya bahubhir maṃtraiḥ kiṃ tasya bahubhir vratai
oṃ namo nārāyaṇāyeti maṃtraḥ sarvārthasādhakaḥ 12 jajñe bahujñaṃ paramaty udaraṃ yaṃ dvīpamadhye
sutam ātmayogāt
f. ?:
[missing 1 leaf, ???Put the range of missing text in the corresponding edition here|???] f. 4r:
raṇye saṃvādaṃ nāradasya ca
śṛṇu rājan mahābaho kathayiṣye hi śāṃtikaṃ 21 duḥkhapradarśane jāpyaṃ yad vā nityaṃ samāhitaiḥ
atrāpy udāharaṃtīmam itihāsaṃ purātanaṃ 22
f. 17v:
vaikuṃṭhaṃ duṣṭadamanaṃ bhaktidaṃ madhusūdanaṃ
etāni prātar utthāya saṃsmaraṃti ca ye janāḥ 32 sarvapāpai pramucyaṃ
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010