Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 490 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 867 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–17v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhīṣmastavarāja |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
.. janamejaya uvāca .. .. śaratalpe śayānas tu bhāratānāṁ pitāmahaḥ katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ cid yogam adhārayat ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 12.47.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 17r
stavarājaḥ samāpto yaṁ viṣṇor adbhutakarmaṇaḥ gāṁgeyena purā gīto mahāpātakanāśanaḥ ..127.. ( MBh. 12.47.65*98, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 17r–f. 17v
iti śrīmahābhārate satasahasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi rājadharme bhīṣmoktaṁ stavarājastotraṁ saṁpūrṇam .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | The concluding verse 127 on f. 17r, ‘Finished is this sin-destroying regal praise of Viṣṇu of wonderful deeds previously sung by the son of the Ganges (Bhīṣma)’, and the final rubric on f. 17v, ‘Finished is the regal hymn of praise uttered by Bhīṣma in the Rājadharma section in the Śāntiparvan in the Mahābhārata of a hundred thousand verses’, identify the text as the Bhīṣmastavarāja, which comprises the contents of Adhyāya 47 in the Rājadharma section of the Śāntiparvan of the Ṃahbharata (MBh. 12.47.1–12.47.72). Bhīṣma sings this praise of Viṣṇu just prior to abandoning his arrow-filled body. The manuscript is 75% longer than the text in the Pune critical edition. The last two verses of the text (MBh. 12.47.71–72) in the critical edition correspond with verses 119–120 on f. 16r of the ms., though the latter varies considerably. While the text of the chapter in the critical edition ends there, the ms. continues with six additional verses, four of which correspond with verses in the star passages in the critical apparatus: verse 121 on f. 16r corresponds with the first two lines of star passage 98 inserted by M1.3 after MBh. 12.47.65 while the concluding verse 127 on f. 17r corresponds with lines three and four of star passage 98. Verse 122 on f. 16v corresponds with lines 5–8 of star passage 94 inserted by K4 and Dn after MBh. 12.47.60, verse 124 on f. 16v corresponds with lines 5–8 of star passage 99 inserted by D7, T, and G1.2 after MBh. 12.47.72, and verse 125 on f. 16v–f. 17r corresponds with lines 1–4 of the same passage. Verses 123 (in Anuṣṭubh meter) and 126 (in Mālinī meter) are not found in the critical text or apparatus. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country paper |
Extent: | 17 folia |
Dimension: | 9.3 x 15.4 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. |
Formula: | 1–17 |
Signatures: | bhī0 sta0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and śiva appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Good with browned edges and broken corners. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink in the middle of f. 1r and on the lower right of f. 17v reads Library University Pennsylvania. A white label on which is hand-written No. 490 appears on f. 1r. |
Layout: | Written in 7 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Same hand as UPenn 488 and UPenn 489. |
Additions: |
Śrīkṛṣṇaḥ śaraṇaṁ mama . is written in pencil on the top of f. 17v. |
Color: | Invocation, introduction of speakers, final rubric, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Every odd leaf is tinted a faint yellow. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A decorative rectangular frame in red, traced over in black on the top side, appears on f. 1r. |
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 – Bhīṣmastavarāja. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |