Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2654 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 857 |
Locus: | ff. 1v–14v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Gajendramokṣaṇa |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
śatānīka uvāca .. mayā hi devadeveśya viṣṇor amitatejasa .. śrutvā saṁbhūtaya sarvā gadatas tava suvrata ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 14v
gītā sahasranāmaiva stavarājo hy anusmṛti<ḥ> .. gaje<ṁ>dramokṣaṇaṁ caiva paṁcaratnāni bhārata ..61.. .. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 14v
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi gaje<ṁ>dramokṣaṇaṁ samāptam .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: |
Verse 161 calls five texts, namely the Bhagavadgītā, Viṣṇusahasranāman, Bhīṣmastavarāja, Anusmṛti, and Gajarājamokṣaṇa, the five jewels (Pañcaratna) in the Mahābhārata. For a description and additional transcription of the Gajarājamokṣaṇa, which does not, as claimed in the final rubric, occur in the Śāntiparvan or anywhere in the Mahābhārata, see SLMsCat UPenn MsIndic5, SLMsCat UPenn 488, and SLMsCat UPenn 2486. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Blue European paper with chain lines. |
Watermark: | Part of a watermark is visible on ff. 1, 3–7, 9–10, but not enough to make out the full watermark. |
Extent: | 14 folia |
Dimension: | 11.3 x 18.5 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio 1-12; ff. 13–14 are numbered only in the lower right margin. |
Formula: | 1–14 |
Signatures: | ga0 (f. 1v, f. 2v), gaje0 (f. 3v), gajadra0 (f. 4v), and gajeṁdramo0 (f. 8v) appear above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of the indicated folios. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Good. Folios 1, 9, 11, and 14 have tattered edges. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in the upper right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania. Beside it is a white label on which is hand-written 2654. |
Layout: | Written in 8–12 lines per page. |
Summary: | Three hands contributed to the manuscript. |
Hand 1: | On f. 1v–f. 5v, f. 6v–f. 11v, line 3 characters are irregular and forward-tilting, and lines are uneven and slope downwards. See the end of f. 5v, beginning of f. 6v, and beginning of f. 11v. |
Hand 2: | On f. 6r characters are bold, clear, and regular and lines are even; some characters tilt forward. See the beginning and end of f. 6r. |
Hand 3: | The third hand completed the manuscript writing on f. 11v, line 3–f. 14v. See the third line of f. 11v. |
Additions: |
Mistakes are covered over with yellow. There are no marginal additions. |
Color: | The final rubric is written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Orange powder is rubbed in over the invocation, introduction of speakers, and over numbers through folio 5. |
Border: | Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. Additional read lines trim the outside edge of the left and right margins. |
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 – Gajendramokṣaṇa. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |