Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:452
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:890

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v-31v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:mahābhārata
Part:śāntiparvan
Incipit: f. 1v:
yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṃsāravaṃdhanāt ||
vimucyate namaḥs tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||1|| namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhubhṛte ||
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||2|| vaisyaṃpāyana uvāca || śrutvā dharmāṇy aśeṣeṇa ...
(MBh. 13.135.1a)
Explicit: f. 31v:
sā nirdahati pāpāni kalpakoṭiśatāni ca ||
aśvattha sannidhau pārtha tatvamāne si keśavaḥ ||162|| vilayaṃ yāṃti pāpani anyapāpasya kākadhāḥ ||
Final rubric: ff. 31v-32r:
tatvasata iti śrīmahābhārate satasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vai
f. 32r:
yāsikyāṃ śāṃti parvaṇi uttamānuśāsane dānadharmottare śrīviṣṇor nāmasahasraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ || ||
Colophon: f. 32r:
... śrīrāmakṛṣṇāya nama vaiṣṇavālatsa?dāsapaṭha | rarthī | haribhaktiparāyaṇaḥ śrīrāmāya namaḥ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:32
Dimension:10 x 17.5 cm
Foliation:32 leaves, foliated 1-32. F. 32 foliated on recto, and verso blank.
formula: 1-32
Condition:There is a hole ripped in folio 11, but the writing can still be made out.
Layout:Written in 5-7 lines per leaf. |

Decoration

Color:Invocation, part of final colophon numbers, and every other syllable of the introduction of speakers in red. Mistakes covered over in yellow, or more usually, gray.
Border:Simple but impressive geometric bordering device in yellow, red, and black.

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 -- Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:Mahābhārata

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
oṃ śrīrādhākṛṣṇāya namaḥ || oṃ yasya smaraṇamātreṇa janmasaṃsāravaṃdhanāt ||
vimucyate namaḥs tasmai viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||1|| namaḥ samastabhūtānām ādibhūtāya bhubhṛte ||
anekarūparūpāya viṣṇave prabhaviṣṇave ||2|| vaisyaṃpāyana uvāca || śrutvā dharmāṇy aśeṣeṇa
(MBh. 13.135.1)
f. 31v:
sā nirdahati pāpāni kalpakoṭiśatāni ca ||
aśvattha sannidhau pārtha tatvamāne si keśavaḥ ||162|| vilayaṃ yāṃti pāpani anyapāpasya kākadhāḥ || tatvasata iti śrīmahābhārate satasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vai
f. 32r:
yāsikyāṃ śāṃti parvaṇi uttamānuśāsane dānadharmottare śrīviṣṇor nāmasahasraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ || || yādriśaṃ pūstakaṃ driṣṭā || tādrisaṃ liṣitaṃ mayā ||
idi sūdham adhaṃ vā mama doso na diyate śrīrāmakṛṣṇāya nama vaiṣṇavālatsa?dāsapaṭha | rarthī | haribhaktiparāyaṇaḥ śrīrāmāya namaḥ || śrīgopālāya namaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇāyana(
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