Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2476
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:870

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–[19]v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhīṣmastavarāja
Final rubric: [[facs=f1r, locus=f. 1r]]
.. bhīṣmastutiprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 1v
.. ja!nme!<name>jaya uvāca .. ..
śaratalpe śayānas tu bhāratānāṁ pitāmahaḥ ..
katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ ccid yogam adhāraya!n!<t> ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 12.47.1 )
Explicit: f. 18v
stavarāja<ḥ> samāpto yaṁ viṣṇo r adbhutakarmaṇaḥ ..
gāṁgeyena purā gīto mahāpātakanāśa naḥ ..143.. ( MBh. 12.47.65*98, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 18v
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryasaṁhitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi bhīṣmapitāmahaproktaḥ stavarājaḥ samāpta
Final rubric: f. [19]v
.. bhīṣmastutisamāptaḥ ..
Colophon:none
Note:

See Ms. Coll.390, Item 490, Notefor a description of the Bhīṣmastavarāja.

The cover rubric and back final rubric call the text the Bhīṣmastuti. The final rubric on f. 18v calls it the Stavarāja proclaimed by Bhīṣma

Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper
Extent:20 folia
Dimension:10.3 x 16 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio 1–[19]. Pages [[facs=f0v, locus=f. [0]v]] , [[facs=f1r, locus=f. 1r]] (these two pages have not been digitally imaged), and f. [19]r are blank.
   Formula:[0], 1–18, [19]
   Signatures:bhī0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma0 appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each numbered folio.
Collation: Single and paired folios.
Formula:[0], 1, ..., 9, 10–11, 12–13, 14–15, 16, ..., [19]
Condition:Very good with slightly browned edges.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of [[facs=f1r, locus=f. [0]r]] and f. [19]v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 7 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted leftward in the same hand as Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2475 and Upenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2334.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow which is then sometimes written over with black (e.g. f. 6v, f. 11r) and at the end of f. 6r drawn over with black flowers. There are few marginal corrections in a hand other than the scribe's on f. 4r, f. 6r, f. 10v, and f. 17v.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, final rubric, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow sometimes with a design in black over each syllable covered.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

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

Record history

Revised: 4 March 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. [0]r     f. [0]r  
f. 1v, f. 2r     f. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v, f. 3r     f. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v, f. 4r     f. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v, f. 5r     f. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v, f. 6r     f. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v, f. 7r     f. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v, f. 8r     f. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v, f. 9r     f. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v, f. 10r     f. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v, f. 11r     f. 10v  f. 11r  
f. 11v, f. 12r     f. 11v  f. 12r  
f. 12v, f. 13r     f. 12v  f. 13r  
f. 13v, f. 14r     f. 13v  f. 14r  
f. 14v, f. 15r     f. 14v  f. 15r  
f. 15v, f. 16r     f. 15v  f. 16r  
f. 16v, f. 17r     f. 16v  f. 17r  
f. 17v, f. 18r     f. 17v  f. 18r  
f. 18v, f. [19]r     f. 18v  f. [19]r  
f. [19]v     f. [19]v  


Transcription (text structure)

.. bhīṣmastutiprāraṁbhaḥ ..
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
.. ja!nme!<name>jaya uvāca .. ..
śaratalpe śayānas tu bhāratānāṁ pitāmahaḥ ..
katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ ccid yogam adhāraya!n!<t> ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 12.47.1 )
<...>
<...>
stavarāja<ḥ> samāpto yaṁ viṣṇo r adbhutakarmaṇaḥ ..
gāṁgeyena purā gīto mahāpātakanāśa naḥ ..143.. ( MBh. 12.47.65*98, lines 3–4 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryasaṁhitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi bhīṣmapitāmahaproktaḥ stavarājaḥ samāpta
śubhaṁ bhavat ..
.. cha .. .. cha ..
.. bhīṣmastutisamāptaḥ ..