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Mahābhārata (Śāntiparva; mokṣadharmaparva)
ms_coll_390item_2408 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
A manuscript of Śāntiparva which part of Indian epic text Mahābhārata. The manuscript having 338 th Adhyāya. The 12th Parva (chapter) of the epic Mahābhārata. There are a total of 18 Parvas in Mahābhārata. It consists Nārada raised both his hands and began to praise Lord Vishnu with 200 names, but it contains only 85 names of Lord Vishnu. It is written in 9 lines per leaf. Lines ruled with pencil.
Bhīṣmastavaraja
ms_coll_390item_2476 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
Bhīṣmoktastavarāja also known as Rājadharma anuśāsana parva is the1st part out of the 3, from the 12th Parva (chapter) of the epic Mahābhārata, that is Śānti Parva. There are a total of 18 Parvas in Mahābhārata. Bhīṣmastavarāja consists of about 108 Ślokas (Metered Verses) depending on the edition. The text describes about the Rāja Dharma. The duties of a king or Leader with respect to various things. This text is also popularly recited as a prayer. Colophon title, Invocation, colophon, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow sometimes with a design in black over each syllable covered. A few marginal corrections in a hand other than the scribe's. It is written in 7 lines per leaf.
Bhīṣmastavaraja
ms_coll_390item_2463 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
Bhīṣmoktastavarāja also known as Rājadharma Anuśāsana parva is the 1st part out of the 3, from the 12th Parva (chapter) of the epic Mahābhārata, that is Śānti Parva. There are a total of 18 Parvas in Mahābhārata. Bhīṣmastavarāja consists of about 108 Ślokas depending on the edition. The text describes about the Rāja Dharma. The duties of a king or Leader with respect to various things. This text is also popularly recited as a prayer. Folios 5, 6, 11, 20, 25, and 26 colored yellow. Mistakes are covered over in yellow. Marginal corrections in a hand other than scribe's. Its written in 5 lines per leaf.
Śrīdharīyaṭīkāvyākhyā (Skandha 10)
ms_coll_390item_2310 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
The text is actually a commentry on the tenth Skandha (Book X) of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, specifically in Chapter 87 by Kāśīnātha Upādhyāya. The Vedastuti is a famous stotra (hymn) that appears within the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. It discusses the difficulty of understanding the absolute through words, the nature of the jīva (individual soul), the relationship between karma (action), jñāna (knowledge), bhakti (devotion), and the ultimate goal of a spiritual life. Mistakes are covered with yellow, but still very visible. Orange powder rubbed over invocation and many lines. A few marginal corrections and lengthy additions. Paper is very brownish. Written in 9 lines per leaf.
Jābālopaniṣad
ms_coll_390item_1069 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
The Jābālopaniṣad is a minor Upaniṣad. The manuscript comprises of four adhyāyas. The text is written in dialogue form. Here, the sage Yājñavalkya clears the doubts about Brahman raised by the sages Bṛhaspati, Atri and by King Janaka of Videha. The title is taken from the colophon (f. 6a), the alternate title Jyābālopaniṣad, appears on the title page (f. 1a). The manuscript is written in eight lines per leaf. Six leaves are foliated 1–6, on the upper left and lower right of the verso. Mistakes are blacked out. Some corrections and additions appear in the margins. Some significant syllables and words highlighted in red throughout. The vertical margins are marked with double black lines.
Jābālopaniṣad dīpikā
ms_coll_390item_1100 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
The work Jābālopaniṣaddīpikā is a commentry on Jābālopaniṣad by Śaṅkarānanda (1290 CE). The text is presented in dialogue form where Sage Yājñavalkya clears the doubts about Brahman to sage Bṛuhspati, Atri and Janaka the king of Videha. Title is taken from colophon (f.14 b). The manuscript is written in 12–14 lines per leaf. 14 leaves are foliated 1–14, upper left and lower right verso.
Sāmāṇyabhāvagrantha (Jāgādīśīṭīkā) (Commentry on Tattvacintāmaṇi-didhīti)
ms_coll_390item_613 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
This is a philosophy text on the school of navya nyaya, Jāgadīśī of Jāgadīśi Tarkālaṃkāra which is a super commentry on Tattvacintāmaṇi-didhīti of Raghunātha Śiromaṇi a commentry itself on Tattvacintāmaṇi of gaṅgeśa Upādhyāya. The text describes Anumāna khaṇḍas in the vyāpti, (it is non-existence of the Hetu in any locus where the Sādhyābhāva resides). There are definitive structure of Vyāpti following, Sādhya, Pakṣa, Abhāva etc. the Sādhyābhāva plays the central defining role. A Hetu (Reason/Middle Term, e.g., Smoke) is invariably concomitant (Vyāpta) with a Sādhya (Probandum/Major Term, e.g., Fire) if and only if the Hetu is never found in the same place as the Sādhyābhāva. So the text is an intersection of the sub-commentry, but it is an incomplete text it has no colophon part. The manuscript is written in 10–11 lines per leaf. 28 leaves are foliated 1–19, 20–29, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes are covered with yellow or blacked out. Some corrections and additions in the margins; significant syllables and words highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins are marked with quadruple black lines.
Caturdaśalakṣaṇī (Jāgādīśīṭīkā) (Commentry on Tattvacintāmaṇi-didhīti)
ms_coll_390item_2147 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
This is a commentary on Raghunātha Śiromaṇi's Tattvacintāmaṇi Dīdhiti—specifically the anumānakhaṇḍa (the section on inference)—and a sub-commentary on the Tattvacintāmaṇi of Gaṅgeśopādhyāya. It deals with the fourteen lakṣaṇas of vyāpti (invariable concomitance) and begins with the Vyadhikaraṇaprakaraṇa, a subsection under vyāptivāda in the anumānakhaṇḍa. In this discussion, Jagadīśa Tarkālaṅkāra (the commentator) examines the description of vyāpti. Jagadīśa Tarkālaṅkāra, a scholar of the Navya-Nyāya philosophical tradition believed to have lived in Mithila between the 16th and 17th centuries, was the son of Yādava Vidyāvāgīśa, the grandson of Mādhava Miśra, and a pupil of Bhavānanda Siddhāntavāgīśa and Rāmabhadra Sārvabhauma (NCC, Vol. 17, p. 126). (Written in 7–12 lines per leaf.; 56 leaves foliated 1–56, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.)
Jaganmohana
ms_coll_390item_1803 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
An astrology text composed by Bhaṭṭa Lakṣmaṇācārya, also called Sāraṅgasādhuvacanāmṛta. It appears that a few parts of the text are identical with the Vṛddhavasiṣṭhasaṃhitā, as Pingree notes in Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Vol. 5, although the manuscript itself attributes the work to Bhaṭṭa Lakṣmaṇācārya. The manuscript is incomplete and contains chapters from chapter 23 (itself incomplete) up to chapter 94. Contains chapters: aṅgagrahocadṛṣṭiśatrumitravṛttanirṇayaviveka (missing folios from the beginning) (f.52b), kālajñānānayana (f.53a–54b); sasvapnādhyāya (f.54b–59a); duḥsvapnādhyāya (f.59a–63a); tithiphala (f.63a–66b); vārādhyāya (f.66b–69a); nakṣatraphalādhyāya (f.69a–73a); yogādhyāya (f.73a–74a); karṇādhyāya (f.74a-74b); 31 chapter (f.74b-76a); tārābalādhyāya (f.76a-77a); lagnaguṇādiphala (f.77b-80b); andha-paṅgu-vadhirādi-saṃjñālagna (f.80b–81a); muhūrtphalādhyāya (f.81a–81b); avayogādhyāya (f.81b–84a); nakṣatrasārāvali (f.84a–93a); avayogādagrahaṇotpātādhikāra (f.93b–95a); vāranakṣatrasambhūta-amṛtasiddhiyoga-adhyāya (f.95a-96a); svapakṣasaṃsthāpana (f.96a-99b); śāṣāvāda (f.99b-106b); gra.ya.dhyānā (it seems that a few letters are missing from the name of the chapter) (f.106b–112a); ṇānyādhyāya (f.112a–114b); pratyekāṣṭakavargarekhāviduphala (f.114b–119a); prastārāṣṭakavargaphala (f.119a–120b); gaḍītādhyāya (f.120b–124a); pratipādāditithinirṇaya (f.124a–139a); rajasvalādhyāya (f.139a–143b); ādhānādhyāya (f.143b-144b); sīmantāṣṭakādhyāya (f.144b-147a); jātakarmmadhyāya (f.147a-148b); grahayonibhedādhyāya (f.148b-149a); valādhyāya (f.149a–151b); garbhapraśnādhikāra (f.151b–154a); śukaproktāriṣṭādhyāya (f.154a–155b); upasūtikādhyāya (f.155b–158b); dvitīyaprakārāriṣṭa-adhyāya (f.158b–159b); riṣṭabhaṅgādhyāya (f.159b–160b); śukapraṇitayogāriṣṭa (f.160b–163a); rājayogādhyāya (f.163a–166a); rājayogabhaṅgādhyāya (f.166a–166b); lagnāṃśaguṇādhyāya(f.166b–167a); grahaphalādhyāya (f.167a–169b); strījātakādhyāya (f.170a–171b); sāmudrikalakṣaṇādhyāya (f.171b-179a); nāmakaraṇādhyāya (f.179a-180a); karṇavaidha-adhyāya (f.180a-181a); annaprāśana (f.181a-182b); kṣaura-adhyāya (f.182b–185a); aṅkurārpaṇoyanavidyātithinakṣatrāditraya (f.185a–191b); vivāhaśakunapraśnādhyāya (f.191b–194a); kālasandhi (f.194a–196b); ekaviṃśamahādoṣa (f.196b–201a); vivāha-kṛtyaviveka (f.201a–204a); vivāhalagnadvādaśa (f.204a–216b); pātrāpraśnādhyāya (f.216b–233b); kendratrikoṇāśritayogāndhyāya (f.233b–241b); mahārājādhirājayogyasamarapātrādhyāya (f.241b–248b); sakaladevatā-pratiṣṭhā (f.248b–249b); rājābhiṣekādhyāya (f.249b–251a); kalepayakarmyādhyāya (f.251a–255a); vastrādhyāya (f.255a–256b); mantragrahaṇādhyāya (f.256b–260a); gṛhagodhikāśāntikarmma (f.260a–261a); nakṣatrajātakāntarbhūta-mahādaśā-antardaśā (f.261a–265a); pañcavidhadaśā(f.265a–278a).
Jaiminisūtra
ms_coll_390item_706 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
The manuscript contains Jaiminisūtra by Jaimini. Who was the student of Bādarāyaṇa, the famous author of Pūrva mīmāṃsā tradition. Jaiminisūtra is also called known as Mīmāṃsāsūtra. This manuscript consists of 1st and 2nd Adhyāya. The text offers rules for interpreting the Vedas and philosophical reasons for observing Vedic rituals. Title is taken from colophon (f. 4b). The manuscript is written in 11 lines per leaf. 4 leaves are foliated 1–4, upper left and lower right verso. It is dated śaka 1800 (1878 CE) (f. 4b). Mistakes are blacked out. Some corrections and additions in the margins.
Jaiminīyanyāyamālāvistara (Adhyāya 1) (Commentary on Mīmāṃsāsūtra)
ms_coll_390item_1937 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
This is a summary of Jaimini’s Pūrvamīmāṃsāsūtra written in verses, accompanied by a prose, explanation by Mādhavācārya. The text contains twelve adhyāyas, further divided into many pādas; each pāda is divided into several adhikaraṇas, and each adhikaraṇa contains Jaimini’s sūtras. This manuscript contains only the first adhyāya, which comprises four pādas. The first pāda (f. 1b–16a) contains eight adhikaraṇas; the second pāda (f. 16a–19a) contains four adhikaraṇas; the third pāda (f. 19a–27a) contains ten adhikaraṇas; and the fourth pāda (f. 27a–42a) contains twenty adhikaraṇas. This text is considered an important source for understanding the foundational Pūrvamīmāṃsāsūtra, the primary text of the Pūrvamīmāṃsā school of philosophy. The author of this commentary, Mādhavācārya—founder of the Dvaita school of Vedānta philosophy—also served as a minister at the court of Bukka, the king of Vijayanagara. (Written in 11 lines per leaf.; 42 leaves foliated 1–42, upper left and lower right verso. Minor mistakes blacked out; some minor corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.) According to the penn. cataloguer the Ms. was originally part of a single manuscript along with Ms. Coll. 390 Items 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 (all accessible on the UPenn. site).
Jaiminīyanyāyamālāvistara (Adhyāya 1) (Commentary on Mīmāṃsāsūtra)
ms_coll_390item_1957 Language : Sanskrit Scripts : Devanāgarī
This is a summary of Jaimini’s Pūrvamīmāṃsāsūtra written in verses, accompanied by a prose, explanation by Mādhavācārya. The text contains twelve adhyāyas, further divided into many pādas; each pāda is divided into several adhikaraṇas, and each adhikaraṇa contains Jaimini’s sūtras. This manuscript contains only the first adhyāya, which comprises four pādas. The first pāda (f. 1b–16b) contains eight adhikaraṇas; the second pāda (f. 16b–19b) contains four adhikaraṇas; the third pāda (f. 19b–27b) contains 10 adhikaraṇas; and the fourth pāda (f. 27b–37a) contains 10 out of 20 adhikaraṇas. This manuscript is similar to Item 1937. This text is considered an important source for understanding the foundational Pūrvamīmāṃsāsūtra, the primary text of the Pūrvamīmāṃsā school of philosophy. The author of this commentary, Mādhavācārya—founder of the Dvaita school of Vedānta philosophy—also served as a minister at the court of Bukka, the king of Vijayanagara. (Written in 12–14 lines per leaf.; 37 leaves foliated 1–37, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables and words highlighted in red throughout. Some folios covered with yellow turmeric powder to protect manuscript from insects.)