Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2654
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:857

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-14v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:śāntiparvan
Incipit: f. 1v:
oṃ śatānīka uvāca || mayā hi devadevaśya viṣṇor amitatejasa ||
śrutvā saṃbhūtaya sarvā gadatas tava suvrata ||1||
Explicit: f. 14v:
sarvaratnamayo meruḥ sarvaś caryamayaṃ nabhaḥ
sarvatīrthamayī gaṃgā sarvadevamayo hariḥ | | ākāśāt patitaṃ toyaṃ yathā gachati sāgare ||
sarvadevanamaskāraṃ kesavaṃ pratigachati ||60
Note: 160
|| gītāsahasranāmaiva stavarājo hy anusmṛti ||
gaje{ṃ}dramokṣaṇaṃ caiva paṃcaratnāni bhārata ||61
Note: 161
|| ||
Final rubric: f. 14v:
iti śrī mahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi gaje{ṃ}dramokṣaṇaṃ samāptam ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Blue European paper with chain lines.
Watermark:Part of watermark on f. 1, f. 3, f. 4, f. 5, f. 6, f. 7, f. 9, f. 10. Not enough to make out the full watermark.
Extent:14
Dimension:11.3 x 18.5 cm
Foliation:14 leaves, foliated 1-14
formula: 1-14
Layout:Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow.

Decoration

Color:On blue paper. Colophon in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, introduction of speakers, and over numbers through folio 5.

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

f. 1v:
|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || || oṃ śatānīka uvāca || mayā hi devadevaśya viṣṇor amitatejasa ||
śrutvā saṃbhūtaya sarvā gadatas tava suvrata ||1||
f. 14v:
sarvaratnamayo meruḥ sarvaś caryamayaṃ nabhaḥ
sarvatīrthamayī gaṃgā sarvadevamayo hariḥ || ākāśāt patitaṃ toyaṃ yathā gachati sāgare ||
sarvadevanamaskāraṃ kesavaṃ pratigachati ||60
Note: 160
|| gītāsahasranāmaiva stavarājo hy anusmṛti ||
gaje{ṃ}dramokṣaṇaṃ caiva paṃcaratnāni bhārata ||61
Note: 161
|| || f. 14v:
iti śrī mahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi gaje{ṃ}dramokṣaṇaṃ samāptam || || śrīrastu || kalyāṇam astu ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010