Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2462
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:868

Contents

Work 1

Physical description

Locus:ff. 1r–22v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhīṣmastavarāja
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
.. atha bhīṣmastavarāja . prāraṁbhaḥ ..
Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:22
Dimension:10.1 x 16 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:The upper left corner on f. 18 is broken off, but no text besides the signature and number is affected.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, regular characters in the same hand as UPenn 2487 and UPenn 2388.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow or written over.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, rubrics, final rubrics, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow or written over. Orange powder is rubbed in over numbers.
Border:Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. A rectangular frame in two sets of double red lines appears on f. 1r.

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

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v,f. 6rf. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v,f. 8rf. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v,f. 10rf. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v,f. 11rf. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v,f. 12rf. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v,f. 13rf. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v,f. 14rf. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v,f. 15rf. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v,f. 16rf. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v,f. 17rf. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v,f. 18rf. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v,f. 19rf. 18v  f. 19r  
f. 19v,f. 20rf. 19v  f. 20r  
f. 20v,f. 21rf. 20v  f. 21r  
f. 21v,f. 22rf. 21v  f. 22r  
f. 22vf. 22v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: .. atha bhīṣmastavarāja . prāraṁbhaḥ ..
f.2r
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. atha bhīṣmastavarājaprāraṁ
Line 2: bhaḥ ..
ja!nme!<name>jaya uvāca .. śaratalpe śayānas tu kau
Line 3: ravāṇāṁ pitāmahaḥ .. katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ
Line 4: ca yogam adhārayat ..1.. [
f.21v
Line 1: śukla
Line 2: pakṣe divā bhūmau gaṁgāyāṁ cottarāyaṇe .. dhanyā
Line 3: s tāta mariṣyaṁti hṛdayasthe janārddane ..26..
Line 4:
stavarājaḥ samāpto yaṁ viṣṇor adbhutakarmaṇaḥ
Line 5: gāṁgeyena purā gīto mahāpātakanāśanaḥ
Line 6: ..127..
.. iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṁ
Line 7: hitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi rājadharmeṣu bhīṣmasta
f.22r
Line 1: varājaḥ saṁpūrṇaḥ .. .. ratna ..3.. śrīkṛṣṇā
Line 2: rpaṇam astu .. śrīśubhaṁ bhavatu .. .. cha ..
f.22r
Line 1: .. iti śrībhīṣmastavarājasamāptaḥ ..
Record revised:04 March 2012