Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:349
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:1364

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:1v
Author:SrIDarasvAmin
Title:
Part:ad skandha 5.1.1-26.17
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v> iti pUrvaskaMdhAMte priyavratasya prathamam AtmavidyA tato, [...]
Explicit:f.<51v> yatkiMcana bhakSyAdikam upanataM prA
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:???
Extent:51
Foliation:
1-51
Collation:folios 50 and 51 were stuck and torn apart at some point as some of the paper from 51r is stuck on 50v - affects only a few akSaras on lines 10 and 11 of 51r and on lines 3 and four of 50v.; the damage is repeated in the same spot between folios 43 and 51 in fact.
Condition:"Good"; lacks end; Folios stained by water.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes written over, crossed through, or blotched out. A few marginal and interlinear corrections and additions.

Decoration

History

Color:Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons and towrad the beginning only, a very sew syllables.
Border:??????
Illustration:??????.???
Origin: "not given" "not given"
Provenance:
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:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#purARa ()

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:

zrIgaNezAya namaH |
oM namo bhagavate zrIvAsudevAya ||
athAtaH paMcamaskaMdha vyAkhyA anekavizeSavAn
priyavratAnvayo yatra (prapaMcaz ca) prapaMcyate |
vaMzaM[H] priyavratasyApi nibodha nRpasattama |
yo nAradAd AtmavidyAm adhigamya punar mahIm |
bhuktvA vibhavya putrebhya aizvaraM samagAt padam < | >
Note: (Fleming) here the ms places the daNDa after "iti"; I have amended according to the printed edition here
(quoted BhP. 4.31.26-27))
iti pUrvaskaMdhAMte priyavratasya prathamam AtmavidyA tato, [...]
paMcame paMcaviMzaH

f. 51v:

[...] yatkiMcana bhakSyAdikam upanataM prA
Note: (Fleming) Commentary completes chapter 25 and contains a full folio side and 3 lines (ff. 51) of commentary on chapter 26. The commentary ends part way through its comments on 5.26.18. The standard skandha 5 goes up to chapter 39, although it should be noted that there is very little commentary on the last third of this skandha, so the manuscript can not be missing many folios.

Changes

PersonDateChange
Matthias AhlbornSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in Benjamin Flemings OriginalData.txt file and data in mbh_bhp.xml collected by David Nelson.
Peter M. Scharf???date mo.??? 2010edited the original encoding .