Details

Standardized Title:

Mahābhārata. Śāntiparva. Gajendramokṣaṇa

Other Title:

Gajendramokṣaṇastava.

Subjects:

Epic literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu stories.

Form/Genre:

Animal stories.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī and Telugu)

Summary:

Story about an elephant who gets caught by a crocodile and is liberated by the Hindu deity Viṣṇu; attributed to the Śāntiparvan of the Mahābhārata, but is not part of the critical edition.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); title also written in Telugu script on final title page (f. 29v); alternate title Gajendramokṣaṇastava from colophon (f. 29r).
30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
Colophon: iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasaṃhasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vaiyyāsikyāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi śaunakaśatānīkasaṃvāde gajeṃdramokṣaṇastavaḥ saṃpūrṇaḥ // ratne // 5 samāptoyaṃpaṃcaratntaḥ // (f. 29r).
Invocation, title, colophon, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers.
Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 855 (UP 2487).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2487

OCLC:

341367951