Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:45
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:1301

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:?
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:BAgavatapurANa
Part:??
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1r.l1> SrIsItAnayanotpala . SrI satisahajanmatridaSaSevitayASA . vA saprakASajayaBAzA surapatiharaRarAmacaMdranfpAlA .. va .. mahaniyyaguRagarizwulagunaMmmuniSre zwulakuniKilapurARavyAKyAnavEKarIsametuMqEnasUtuMqiwlaniye .
Explicit:f.<57v.l1> BU dvIpavarzasaridadrinaBassamudrapAtAvadijYa[?]s akatA[?]s AgrahaRalokasaMsTitaMunu .
Final rubric:f.<57v.l2> nanukaDalaMgalapaMcamaskaMDaMsaMpurRaM ..
Colophon:f.<57v.l3> SrItArAmArpaRamastu .. SrIkfzRarpaRamastu .. SrIlakzmInfsiMhyArpaRamastu .. SrIha yagrivAhanamaH .. SrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrIjjeyanamaH ..
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:?
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:BAgavatapurANa
Part:??
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<63r> SrInIAcalanADunaMccitadayAM[??]s Dunjagannayakun . nAnAvEBavasaMyutunmunijanAnaMddalayunsarvadevanIkasTiramy.OratnaruciBavyAMBrudvayiMSeBartan.
Explicit:f.<126v.l3> jalavavimalagAtrisatyaBAmAkaLatra ..
Final rubric:f.<126v.l4127r.l1> idihanumatkawAkzalabdavaraprasAda . sahajasArasvatacaMdrnAmAMkkarAmavidvanmaRikumAra . azwaGaMwwavaDAnapara meSvara . hariBawwAraka . praRItaMbEna . SrImahABAgavatamahApurARaMbunaMdu . narakanirUpaRaMbunu . najAmILopAKyAnaMbunu . vizRu yamadUtalasaMvvAdaMbbunu . prAcetanajanmaMbunu . anuBavasvargalakzaRaMbunu . nArAyaRakavacapraBAvaMbunu . viSvarUpuvaDayunu . vftrAsurujanmaMbunu . devAsurayuDaMbunu . citraketopaKyAnambunu . puMsavanavrataprakAraMbunu . nanaMviSezaMbbulaMbaripUrnaMbulayyezazwama skaMDamusaMpUrnnamu ..
Colophon:f.<127r.l2> SrInIlAcanasvAminenamaH .. SrIsItArAmArpaRamastu .. SrIkfzRArpaRamastu .. SrIlakzmInfsiMhyArpaRamastu .. SrIhayagrI vAyanamaH .. karakftamaparADaHkzaMttumarhaMttisaMttaH . SrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrI .
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Work 3 (complete)

Locus:?
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:BAgavatapurANa
Part:??
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<128r.l1> SrImadviKyAtilatAkrAmitaroDoMttarALakamanIyyamahA . jImUtatulitadehaSyAmalarucijAlarAmacaMdranfpAla .. va .. mahaniyyaguRagarizwulagunaMmmuniSrezwulakuniKalapurARavyAKyAnavEKarIsametuMqEnasUtuMqiwlaniyenawluparikzinnaredfMquSukayogIMdfMganuMggoni .. si .. sarvaButamulakusamuquneccelipriyu qEnavEkuMWuqnaMtuqAdyu .
Explicit:f.<194r.l4> yISvaruMwwutripuraMbuludavAMcculuyu . DarmADarmavivaraMbula .
Final rubric:f.<194r.l4> niyaMqidaTalaMgalasaptamaskaM DamusaMpUrRaM ..
Colophon:f.<194r.l5> SrItArAmArpaRamastu .. SrIkfzRarpaRamastu .. asmamadnaruByotnamaH .. SrIhayagrIvAyanamaH .. SrISrISrISrISrI
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Work 4 (complete)

Locus:?
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:BAgavatapurANa
Part:??
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<195r.l1> SrImannAmapayoda . SyAmaDaRABfllalAmajagadaBirAmA . rAmAjanakAmamahoddAmaguRa sTomaDAmadaSaraDarAmA .. va ..
Explicit:f.<268r> BavaLabahuLadarttiDarmasatyAsuvarti ..
Final rubric:f.<268r.l1269v.l1> idiSrIparameSvara karuNadavitakavitAvicitrakesanamaMtriputrasahajapAMqityapotanAmAtyapraRItaMbEnaSrImahABAgavatambanumahApurARambunaMdusvAyaMBuvasva rocizavuttamatAmasamanuvulacaritraMbulunu . karimakariyudDaMbunu . gajeMdramokzaRaMbunu . rEvatakacAkzazamazavulavartanaMbulunu . samudra maDanaMbunu . vimoDbavaMbunu . garaLaBakzaRaMbunu . kAmaDenukalpavfkzaciMtamaRilakzmIamftAdisaMBavaMbunu . amarAsurayudDaMbunu . tAkzasavaDaMbunu . hariharasallApaMbunu . harikapawawkAminIrupavipramaMbunu . vEvasvatasUryasAvarRI . dakzasAvarRI . brahmasAvarRI . DarmasAvarRI . Badra sAvarRI . vedasAvarRI . yiMdrasAvarRI . manuvulavfttaMvaMbulunu . balidaMqagamanaMbunu . devaPalAyanaMbunu . vAmanavatAraMbunu . suprebalisaMvAdaMbunu . trivikrama sPuraRaMbunu . rAkzasulasutalanamanaMbunu . satyapratopAKyAnambunu . matyAvatAraMbunu . nanukaDalaMgalaazwamaskaMDaMsaMpUrRaM ..
Colophon:SrItArAmArpaRamastu .. SrIkfzRarpaRamastu .. SrIgurudevArpaRamastu .. SrIlakzmInfsiMhyArpaRamastu .. SrIdattatreyArpaRamastu .. SrISrISrI SrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrISrIjeyunu ..
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:palm leaf
Watermark:
Extent:270
Foliation:The last four blank folios [iv-ix] appear to be out of order. Their various shapes, sizes and peg hole placements are not in relationship to the surrounding folios. Two folios numbered as 176 no folio 177
[i-ii], 1-59, 63-120, [iii], 121-176[a], 176[b], 178-268, [iv-ix]
Collation:
Condition:Fair condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; occassional worm holes; Most of the folios have considerable ink fading but the text is still legible by means of the etching; Folio 40 split horizontally on left margin center and sewn together.
Binding:

Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes

Conditiongood
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “paMcamaskaM” “Damu ..” flower folio 1r

Note in left margin: illegible scribble folio 39v

Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “zazwamaskaMDaM” folio 63r

Note in left margin: 3“harinAma” folio 73r

Note in left margin: “nAraduniki” “SApamu” folio 82r

Note in left margin: “nAra” “yanA” “kavacaM” folio 94r

Note in left margin: “vftrAsura” “jananIM” folio 96r

Note in left margin: “vftrA”06 “suravaDa” folio 106r

Note in left margin: “aviGnamastu” “SuBamastu” “saptamaskaMDam” folio 128r

Note in left margin: “prakfti” folio 128v

Note in left margin: “SuBamastu . aviGnamastu” “SrISAradaMbbAyEnamaH” “azwamaskaMDamU” folio 195r

Note in left margin: ?“to” “baMttI” folio 217r

Decoration

History

Color:
Border:
Illustration:??flowers in some left margins??
Origin:

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Provenance: “”
Acquisition: (Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows: “ Indic Manuscripts

A collection of fifty-three codices (not after 1800) in Burmese, Cambodian, Telugu Skandhas, Bengali, and Sinhalese script on palm leaves with lacquered wood covers tied with cords. Subjects include Buddhist canon, Pālī grammar and lexicons, Epics, Dance, Drama, and a treatise on midwifery and diseases of women. Recorded in (A Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, by Horace I. Poleman, New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1938.) Register available.

Gift of Baptist missionaries to Burma, among whom was Adoniram Judson Brown Class of 1807, who first translated the Bible into Burmese.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Telugu
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#purARa ()

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Changes

PersonDateChange
Matthias AhlbornSusan J. MooreSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in 's BrMs*.txt file.
Peter M. Scharf25 December 2009edited the original encoding .