Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2363
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:917

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-191r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:aśvamedhaparvan
Incipit: f. 1v:
nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ ||
devīṃ sarasvatīṃ vyāsaṃ tato jayam udīrayet ||1|| janmejaya uvāca || kathaṃ ydhiṣṭhiraḥ prīto mama pūrvapitāmahaḥ ||
hayamedhaṃ kratuvaraṃ cakre baṃdhubhir anvitaḥ ||1||
(Not in the crit. ed.)
Explicit: f. 191r:
dānaṃ datvā nṛpaśreṣṭa saṃpūrṇaphalabhāg bhavet ||
caturdaśa ca parvāṇi kathitāni viśāṃpate ||
ataś cāśramavāsākhyaṃ parvarājan śṛṇuṣva tat ||14|| ||
Final rubric: f. 191r:
iti śrīmahābhārate āśvamedhike parvaṇi phalaśru
Note: sic
varṇanaṃ nāma aṣṭaṣaṣṭitamo dhyāyaḥ ||68|| || iti aśvamedhaḥ samāptaḥ ||
Colophon: f. 191r:
śake 1765 śobhananāmasaṃvaṃtsare caitraśuklapaṃcamyāṃ saumyavāsare idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptaṃ || || he pustaka raghunāthaśāstrī gorehiṃdulekarayāṃce ase || ... aśvamedhasaṃkhyāślokapāṃcahajāradonaśe 50 200
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:European browned paper, chain lines. Ff. 103- are on country-made paper.
Watermark:F. 1 has a watermark--a seal of sorts--but it can't be made out clearly. Some letters and a number on f. 3, but again not enough and not clear enough. There are definitely letters in the watermark, a company identification and a year, but can't make it out from what is there. Can make out something like Y{?}ILMO 1 Elsewhere: IS ET Elsewhere: Y & C 0 Elsewhere: RIS ET The date *might* be 1838?
Extent:191
Dimension:5.4 x 12.7 cm
Foliation:191 leaves, foliated 1-118, [1]19, 120-191
formula: 1-118, [1]19, 120-191
Layout:Written in 12 lines per leaf.

Decoration

Color:Red pigment used to high colophons and the introduction of speakers.

History

Origin: zaka 1765 [=1843]
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 || atha jaiminīkṛta aśvamedhaprāraṃbhaḥ || nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ ||
devīṃ sarasvatīṃ vyāsaṃ tato jayam udīrayet ||1|| janmejaya uvāca || kathaṃ ydhiṣṭhiraḥ prīto mama pūrvapitāmahaḥ ||
hayamedhaṃ kratuvaraṃ cakre baṃdhubhir anvitaḥ ||1|| ...
f. 191r:
... dānaṃ datvā nṛpaśreṣṭa saṃpūrṇaphalabhāg bhavet ||
caturdaśa ca parvāṇi kathitāni viśāṃpate ||
ataś cāśramavāsākhyaṃ parvarājan śṛṇuṣva tat ||14|| || iti śrīmahābhārate āśvamedhike parvaṇi phalaśru
Note: sic
varṇanaṃ nāma aṣṭaṣaṣṭitamo dhyāyaḥ ||68|| || iti aśvamedhaḥ samāptaḥ || śake 1765 śobhananāmasaṃvaṃtsare caitraśuklapaṃcamyāṃ saumyavāsare idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptaṃ || || he pustaka raghunāthaśāstrī gorehiṃdulekarayāṃce ase || yādṛśaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭaṃ tādṛśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā ||
yadi śuddham aśuddhaṃ vā mama doṣo na vidyate ||1|| nārāyaṇārpaṇam astu || || aśvamedhasaṃkhyāślokapāṃcahajāradonaśe 50 200
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010