Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2491 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 856 |
Locus: | ff. 1r-36v (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | śāntiparvan |
Incipit: |
f. 1r: śatānīka uvāca | mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor atulatejasaḥ || śrutāḥ saṃbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata ||1|| |
Explicit: |
35v-36r: yo 'dhīte hi gajeṃdramokṣaṇam i f. 36r: daṃ nityaṃ śṛṇoty ādarāt sa prāpnoty atha vā tulāpuruṣajago koṭidānodbhavaṃ || duḥsvapnopaśamasya vedaṃ pavanasyāsaṃkhyamukhyakrator varṣāṇām ayutaṃ prayāgasavanasyākhaṃḍitaṃ satphalaṃ ||158|| || |
Final rubric: |
ff. 36r-36v: iti śrīmahābhārate śāṃti f. 36v: parvaṇi sarvadharmeṣu śrīviṣṇoḥ gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃ nāma mahāstutiḥ saṃpūrṇā || || || |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | paper |
Extent: | 36 |
Dimension: | 7 x 12.1 cm |
Foliation: | 36 leaves, foliated 1-36.
formula: 1-36 |
Layout: | Written in 5 lines per leaf. |
Color: | Invocation, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas written in red. |
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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