Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2453
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:833

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–4v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Durgāstotra
Cover rubric: f. 1r:
atha durgāstotraprāraṁbhaḥ ..
Incipit: f. 1r:
sa<ṁ>
jaya uvāca ..
dhārtarāṣṭrabalaṁ dṛṣṭvā yuddhāya samupasthi
taṁ ..
arjunasya hitārthāya kṛṣṇo vacanam abravīt ..1
Note:
MBh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, lines 1–2
śuci<r> bhūtvā mahābāho saṁgrāmābhimukhe sthitaḥ ..
parājayāya śatrūṇāṁ durgāstotram udīrayet ..2
Note:
MBh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, lines 1–2
Explicit: f. 4r:

yato dharmas tataḥ
kṛṣṇo yataḥ kṛṣṇas tato jayaḥ ..29.. ..
Note:
Mbh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, line 57
Final rubric: f. 4r:
.. iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparva!ṇī!<ṇi> durgāstotrasaṁ
pūrṇaṁ ..
Colophon:none
Note:

The text of the Durgastotra is included in Appendix I in the critical apparatus of the Bhīṣmaparvan of the Pune critical edition of the Mahābhārata (MBh. 6.22.16 Appendix I, no. 1, lines 1–57).

The present manuscript ends with a single-line verse 29.

Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:4
Dimension:10 x 15 cm
Collation: Single folios.
Condition:Excellent condition.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in 9 lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Legible.
Additions:None. Errors blotted out in black ink on f. 2v.

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 – Bhīṣmaparva – Durgāstotra.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

Whole image
f. 1r
f. 1v
f. 2r
f. 2v
f. 3r
f. 3v
f. [4]r
f. [4]v


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1r
Line 1: .. śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. atha durgāstotraprāraṁbhaḥ .. sa<ṁ>
Line 2: jaya uvāca .. dhārtarāṣṭrabalaṁ dṛṣṭvā yuddhāya samupasthi
Line 3: taṁ .. arjunasya hitārthāya kṛṣṇo vacanam abravīt ..1
Line 4:
śuci<r> bhūtvā mahābāho saṁgrāmābhimukhe sthitaḥ ..
Line 5: parājayāya śatrūṇāṁ durgāstotram udīrayet ..2 [
f.4r
Line 2: [ yato dharmas tataḥ
Line 3: kṛṣṇo yataḥ kṛṣṇas tato jayaḥ ..29.. ..
Line 4:
.. iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparva!ṇī!<ṇi> durgāstotrasaṁ
Line 5: pūrṇaṁ .. śubham astu .. .. śrīdurgāyai namaḥ ..
Line 6: śrī!śrī!<sī>tārā!m !<ma>caṁdrārpaṇam astu .. .. śrī ..
Record revised:27 February 2012