Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2563 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 903 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–8v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhīṣmastavarāja |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r
bhīṣmastavarāja |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
janame<ja>ya uvāca .. oṁ śaratalpe śayānas tu bhāratānāṁ pitāmahaḥ .. katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ cit yogam adhārayat ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 12.47.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 8v
stavarāja<ḥ> samāpto yaṁ viṣṇor adbhutakarmaṇaḥ .. gāṁgeyena purā gīto mahāpātakanāśanaḥ ..28 (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 8v
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vai<yā>sikyāṁ śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmeṣu śrībhīṣmaproktaṁ viṣṇustavarājastotraṁ saṁpūrṇaṁ .. |
Colophon: |
f. 8v
samvat 1913 |
Note: | The Bhīṣmastavarāja is included in the text of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata at MBh. 12.47.1–72, yet the text as an independent treatise typically appends a phalaśruti not included in the critical text and most of which is also absent from the critical apparatus. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 8 folia |
Dimension: | 13.2 x 23.5 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated on the upper left and lower right on the verso of each folio 2–8 . |
Formula: | [1], 2–8 |
Signatures: | bhī0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio 2–8. |
Collation: | Single folia. |
Condition: | Excellent. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink on the right of f. 1r and f. 8v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 12 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written clearly with a reed with a broad nib that distinguishes thick and thin strokes and produces sharp angles. Same hand as UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 Item 773, Item 2639, and Ms. Indic 5. |
Additions: |
Marginal corrections throughout. In Persian script on f. 1r is written, BIzma prag {m}ahABArata m [BIzma hij]. |
Color: | Double daṇḍas, and the rubric appear in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, for example, on f. 4v, f. 5v, and f. 6r. Additional colors are used in borders. |
Border: | A frame consisting of two horizontal orange bands trimmed with black lines within thin orange lines bounded by two similar vertical bands frame the text. |
Origin: | The colophon dates the manuscript to the year saṁvat 1913, equivalent to 1856-57 c.e. |
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: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Itihāsa. Narrative, Epic, History |
Whole image | Individual pages | |
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f. [1]r | f. [1]r | |
f. [1]v, f. 2r | f. [1]v f. 2r | |
f. 2v, f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r | |
f. 3v, f. 4r | f. 3v f. 4r | |
f. 4v, f. 5r | f. 4v f. 5r | |
f. 5v, f. 6r | f. 5v f. 6r | |
f. 6v, f. 7r | f. 6v f. 7r | |
f. 7v, f. 8r | f. 7v f. 8r | |
f. 8v | f. 8v |