Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2250
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1317

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff 1v-58r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 8 (matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇana)
Incipit: f. 1v:
|| rājovāca || svāyaṃbhuvasyeha guro vaṃśo ...
(BhP. 8.1.1)
Explicit: f. 58r:
... jihmamīnaṃ nato smi 62||
(BhP. 8.24.61 [numbered 62 in the ms.])
Final rubric: f. 58r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṃsyāṃ hitāyāṃ aṣṭamaskaṃdhe bhagavato matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇane caturviṃśatimo dhyāyaḥ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:ff. 1v-58r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin fl. 1350-1450
Part:ad skandha 8
Incipit: f. 1v:
|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || oṃ namaḥ śrīparamahaṃsasvāditacaraṇakama(la)cinmakaraṃdāya
Explicit: f. 58r:
|| jihmamīnaṃ māyāmatsyaṃ ||62|| ||
Final rubric: f. 58r:
iti śrībhāgavate bhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṃ aṣṭamaskaṃdhe caturviṃśo dhyāyaḥ || || śrīrāmaḥ ||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Extent:58
Dimension:15.3 x 35.1 cm
Foliation:58 leaves, foliated 1-58
formula: 1-58
Condition:Good condition.
Layout:11-14 lines per page. Commentary above and below the mUla.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow. Marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:Double daNDas of text in red or bright orange. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons, introduction of speakers, and numbers.

History

Origin: 18--
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:Puranas -- Bhāgavatapurāṇa -- 8. skandha.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

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Transcription

mū:
f. 1v:
|| rājovāca || svāyaṃbhuvasyeha guro vaṃśo ...
(BhP. 8.1.1) Commentary:
f. 1v:
|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || oṃ namaḥ śrīparamahaṃsasvāditacaraṇakama(cinmakaraṃdāya
f. 58r:
mū:
... jihmamīnaṃ nato smi 62||
(BhP. 8.24.61 [numbered 62 in the ms.]) iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṃsyāṃ hitāyāṃ aṣṭamaskaṃdhe bhagavato matsyāvatāracaritānuvarṇane caturviṃśatimo dhyāyaḥ || Commentary:
|| jihmamīnaṃ māyāmatsyaṃ ||62|| || iti śrībhāgavate bhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṃ aṣṭamaskaṃdhe caturviṃśo dhyāyaḥ || || śrīrāmaḥ ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010