Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2486 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 854 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–21v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Gajendramokṣaṇa |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
śatānīka uvāca .. mayā hi devadeveśa viṣṇor amitatejasaḥ .. śrutvā saṁbhūtayaḥ sarvā gadatas tavasuvrata ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 21r–f. 21v
mama śāstrāni ye nityaṁ pūjayaṁti paṭhaṁti ca .. te narā gaja!sā!<śā>rdūla nityaṁ yātā mamāṁtikaṁ ..161.. (Anuṣṭubh) gītā sahasranāmaṁ ca stavarājam anusmṛtiṁ .. gajeṁdramokṣaṇaṁ caiva paṁcaratnāni bhārate ..162.. (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 21v
iti śrīmanmahābhā(ra)te śatasāhasryasaṁhitāyāṁ vaiyyāsikyāṁ śāṁtiparvaṇi mokṣadharmme śaunakaśatānikasaṁvāde śrīgajeṁdramokṣastotra<ṁ> saṁpūrṇam .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: |
Verse 151 summarizes the Gajarājamokṣaṇa and, by referring to Hari as the destroyer of bad dreams (Duḥsvapnanāśana), reminds the reader that the story is an example of how to achieve the destruction of bad dreams. Verse 162 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 and SLMsCat UPenn 488. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 21 folia |
Dimension: | 10.4 x 16 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. The front page, f. 1r , is blank. |
Formula: | 1–21 |
Signatures: | gajeṁ0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma0 appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good, with slightly bowned edges and a few boken corners. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. 21v reads Library University Pennsylvania. A white label on which is hand-written No. 488 appears on f. 1r. |
Layout: | Written in 7 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold characters sometimes tilted leftward and of varying size. Similar hand, but different 6's in UPenn 2334. |
Additions: |
Mistakes are covered over with yellow. There is an addition of a verse on f. 20v, a few other minor marginal additions, and numerous corrections. |
Color: | Invocation, introduction of speakers are written in bright red. Double daṇḍas are written in mauve. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. |
Border: | Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page; they turn to mauve beginning on f. 14r. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Gajendramokṣaṇa. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |