Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:426
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:834

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-12r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:bhīṣmaparvan
Incipit: f. 1v:
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca || śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ( sarvaśaḥ ||
yudhiṣṭiraḥ śāṃtanavaṃ punar evābhyabhāṣata ||1||
(MBh. 13.135.001 )
Explicit: f. 12r:
eṣa ṇiḥkaṃṭakaḥ paṃthā yatra saṃpūjyate hariḥ ||
kupathaṃ taṃ vijānīyād goviṃdarahitāgamaḥ ||147||
Final rubric: f. 12r:
|| iti śrī mahābhārate śatasāhasryaṃ ? saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyāṃ dānadharme bhīṣmavarpaṇi viṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ ||
Colophon: f. 12r:
śrīśāke 1754 ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:12
Dimension:10.4 x 21 cm
Foliation:12 leaves, foliated 1- 12. F. 12v blank. F. 1r blank.
formula: 1-12
Condition:Paper very brown.
Layout:Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Orange powder rubbed in over numbers, double daṇḍas, and every other syllable of invocation, colophon, and introductions of speakers.

History

Origin: zaka 1754 [= 1832 or 1833]
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 -- Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
om śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || || vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca || śrutvā dharmān aśeṣeṇa pāvanāni ( sarvaśaḥ ||
yudhiṣṭiraḥ śāṃtanavaṃ punar evābhyabhāṣata ||1||
(MBh. 13.135.001 )
f. 12r:
eṣa ṇiḥkaṃṭakaḥ paṃthā yatra saṃpūjyate hariḥ ||
kupathaṃ taṃ vijānīyād goviṃdarahitāgamaḥ ||147|| || iti śrī mahābhārate śatasāhasryaṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyāṃ dānadharme bhīṣmavarpaṇi viṣṇor divyasahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ || || śubhaṃ bhūyāl lekhakapāṭhakayoḥ || || śrīśāke 1754 || śubhaṃ || || rāmaḥ || rāmaḥ || rāmaḥ ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010