Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2487
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:855

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r-30v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:śāntiparvan
Cover rubric:|| atha gajeṃdramokṣaprāraṃbhaḥ ||
Incipit: f. 2r:
śatā[ni](ka uvāca || mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ ||
śrutāḥ saṃbhūtayaḥ sarvā gada(s tava suvrata ||1||
Explicit: f. 29r:
gītā sahasraṃ nāmnāṃ ca stavarāja anusmṛtiḥ ||
gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃ caiva paṃcaratnāni bhārate ||159||
Final rubric: f. 29r:
iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ śāṃti parvaṇi śaunakaśatānīkasaṃvāde gajeṃdramokṣaṇastavaḥ saṃpūrṇaḥ || ratne ||5|| samāpto yaṃ paṃcaratnaḥ || f. 30v:
|| iti gajeṃdramokṣasamāptaḥ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:30
Dimension:10.2 x 16 cm
Foliation:30 leaves, foliated 1-30.
formula: 1-30
Layout:Written in 7 lines per leaf. |

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow.

F. 29v has a few characters in what appears to be a South Indian script.

Decoration

Color:Invocation, title, colophon, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers.

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 -- Gajendramokṣaṇa.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

|| atha gajeṃdramokṣaprāraṃbhaḥ ||
f. 2r:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || atha gajeṃdramokṣaprārabhaḥ || śatā[ni](ka uvāca || mayā hi devadevasya viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ ||
śrutāḥ saṃbhūtayaḥ sarvā gada(s tava suvrata ||1||
f. 29r:
gītā sahasraṃ nāmnāṃ ca stavarāja anusmṛtiḥ ||
gajeṃdramokṣaṇaṃ caiva paṃcaratnāni bhārate ||159|| iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ śāṃti parvaṇi śaunakaśatānīkasaṃvāde gajeṃdramokṣaṇastavaḥ saṃpūrṇaḥ ||
ratne ||5||
samāpto yaṃ paṃcaratnaḥ ||
f. 30v:
|| iti gajeṃdramokṣasamāptaḥ ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010