Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2664
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:858

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–15v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Gajendramokṣaṇa
Incipit: f. 1v
.. śatānīka uvāca .. ..
mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ ..
śrutāḥ saṁbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata..1.. (Anuṣṭubh)
Explicit: f. 15r
gītā sahasranāmaiva stavarājohy anusmṛtiḥ ..
gajeṁdramokṣaṇaṁ caiva paṁca ratnāni bhārate ..60.. (Anuṣṭubh)
Final rubric: f. 15r
.. iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi gajeṁdramokṣaṇaṁ nāmādhyāyaḥ ..
Colophon: f. 15r
.. pavanārthaṁ vaiṣṇavadvārikāṁ dāsa idaṁ0
Note:

Verse 160 calls five texts, namely the Bhagavadgītā, Viṣṇusahasranāman, Bhīṣmastavarāja, Anusmṛti, and Gajarājamokṣaṇa, the five jewels (Pañcaratna) in the Mahābhārata.

For a description and additional transcription of the Gajarājamokṣaṇa, which does not, as claimed in the final rubric, occur in the Śāntiparvan or anywhere in the Mahābhārata, see SLMsCat UPenn MsIndic5, SLMsCat UPenn 488, and SLMsCat UPenn 2486.

Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper
Extent:15 folia
Dimension:10.7 x 18.7 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio.
   Formula:1–15
   Signatures:gajeṁdramo0 (gajeṁdramokṣa0 f. 3v) appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso of each folio.
Collation: Single folia
Condition:The edges of folios 1 and 15 are mangled. The folios are badly stained.
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp in the upper right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania. Beside it is a white label on which is hand-written 2664.
Layout:Written in 8–9 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold characters is wavy lines.
Additions:

Mistakes are covered over with yellow that has turned brown.

On f. 15v a different hand has recopied the signature.

Decoration

Color:Double daṇḍas and triple lines on four sides of numbers are written in red.
Border:Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin: 17–
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 – Gajendramokṣaṇa.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Record history

Revised: 8 March 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. 1r     f. 1r  
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. 15v  


Transcription (text structure)

.. śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ ..

.. śatānīka uvāca .. ..
mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ ..
śrutāḥ saṁbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tava suvrata..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) (Ms. Coll.390, Item 488, verse 1)
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ākāśāt patitaṁ toyaṁ yathā gachati sāgare ..
sarvadevanamaskāraḥ keśavaṁ pratigachati ..59.. (Anuṣṭubh)
gītā sahasranāmaiva stavarājohy anusmṛtiḥ ..
gajeṁdramokṣaṇaṁ caiva paṁca ratnāni bhārate ..60.. (Anuṣṭubh)
.. iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi gajeṁdramokṣaṇaṁ nāmādhyāyaḥ ..
.. śubhaṁ bhavatu ..
.. pavanārthaṁ vaiṣṇavadvārikāṁ dāsa idaṁ0
(gajendramok)