Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2408
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:878

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-4r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:śāntiparvan, mokṣadharma, adhyāya 338 = crit. ed. 325
Incipit: f. 1v:
bhīṣma uvāca || prāpya śvetaṃ mahādvīpaṃ ...
(MBh. 12.325.001ab)
Explicit: f. 4r:
... brahmaṇyadeva 99
Note: 199
bhakto haṃ tvāṃ didṛkṣur
ekāṃtadarśanāya namo namaḥ
(Mbh. 12.325.169/171)
Final rubric: f. 4r:
iti śrīmahābhārate śāṃtiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi aṣṭatriṃśadadhikatriśatamodhyāyaḥ 338
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:White paper with chain lines, European.
Watermark:Watermark on ff. 3-4. Lady Britannia can be seen sitting on a throne with her shield (top cut off). Below this are the words, "British Make".
Extent:4
Dimension:10.5 x 17 cm
Foliation:4 leaves, foliated 1-4. F. 4 foliated on recto; F. 4v blank.
formula: 1-4
Collation:Ff. 1-2 connected, and so are ff. 3-4.
formula: 1+2, 3+4
Layout:Written in 9 lines per leaf.

History

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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Mahābhārata.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || bhīṣma uvāca || prāpya śvetaṃ mahādvīpaṃ ...
(MBh. 12.325.001ab)
f. 4r:
... brahmaṇyadeva 99
Note: 199
bhakto haṃ tvāṃ didṛkṣur
ekāṃtadarśanāya namo namaḥ
(Mbh. 12.325.169/171) iti śrīmahābhārate śāṃtiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi aṣṭatriṃśadadhikatriśatamodhyāyaḥ 338
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010