Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2487 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 855 |
Locus: | ff. 1r-30v (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | śāntiparvan |
Cover rubric: | || atha gajeṃdramokṣaprāraṃbhaḥ || |
Incipit: |
f. 2r: śatā[ni](ka uvāca || mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ || śrutāḥ saṃbhūtayaḥ sarvā gada(s tava suvrata ||1|| |
Explicit: |
f. 29r: gītā sahasraṃ nāmnāṃ ca stavarāja anusmṛtiḥ || gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃ caiva paṃcaratnāni bhārate ||159|| |
Final rubric: |
f. 29r: iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ śāṃti parvaṇi śaunakaśatānīkasaṃvāde gajeṃdramokṣaṇastavaḥ saṃpūrṇaḥ || ratne ||5|| samāpto yaṃ paṃcaratnaḥ || f. 30v: || iti gajeṃdramokṣasamāptaḥ || |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | Country-made paper. |
Extent: | 30 |
Dimension: | 10.2 x 16 cm |
Foliation: | 30 leaves, foliated 1-30.
formula: 1-30 |
Layout: | Written in 7 lines per leaf. | |
Additions: |
Mistakes covered over with yellow. F. 29v has a few characters in what appears to be a South Indian script. |
Color: | Invocation, title, colophon, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers. |
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 |
Record revised: | ???date mo.??? 2010 |
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