Udyoga parvan, circa 1700-1850.
उद्योगपर्वन्

Format:

• Manuscript

Standardized Title:

• Mahābhārata. Udyogaparva

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Hindu mythology.
• Epic literature, Sanskrit.

Genre:

• Commentaries.
• Poems.
• Epics.
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (307 leaves) : paper ; 17 x 40 cm, with board 18 x 41 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2246

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Contains fifth book of the Mahābhārata, the Book of Effort, telling of the preparations for the epic war, beginning and end correspond with the critical edition (Mahābhārata, V.S. Sukthankar ed., Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1927-); contains an unidentified commentary running throughout, above and below the main text, beginning: Lakṣmībharttuḥ prasarpatpadakamalabhuvaḥ (f. 1v); missing both text and commentary of chapters 35 and 36 (missing f. 59).

Notes:

• Title of text from title abbreviations throughout, upper left verso and from colophon (f. 307v).
• Title of commentary Lakṣmībharttuḥ prasarpatpadakamalabhuvaḥ from incipit (f. 1r).
• Written in 8-13 lines per leaf.
• 307 leaves foliated 1-58, 60-308, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon (main text): iti śrīmahābhārate śatasahasrāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāśavabhāṃ udyogaparavasamāptamiti // śrīrastu // atraparvaṇyanivṛttāṃtā // (f. 307v).
• Colophon (commentary): udyogaparvaṇi samāptam iti // vaśāvibhūṣitakarān navanīradābhāt pītāṃbarādaruṇabiṃbaphalādharoṣṭāt / pūrṇe[n]dusuṃramukhādaraviṃdanetrāt // kṛṣṇāt varaṃ kimapitatva maham na jāne // śubhaṃbhavatu // śrīrastu // (f. 308r)
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins; verse markers indicated in orange throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple orange line; has single wooden cover board.
• Wooden board accompanies the manuscript for support.
• 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 826 (UP 2246 misidentified in Poleman as H 2246).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2246

Contains:

Lakṣmībharttuḥ prasarpatpadakamalabhuvaḥ.

OCLC:

760218702