Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2618 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1346 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–40v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | Skandha 2 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
śrīśuka uvāca .. varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛt!āṁ!<o> lokahitaṁ nṛpa .(.) ātmavitsaṁmat[ā](a)ḥ puṁsāṁ śrotavyādiṣu yaḥ paraḥ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 2.1.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 40v
.. sūta uvāca rājñ!aḥ!<ā> parīkṣitā pṛṣṭo ya!dvo!<d a>vocan mahāmuniḥ .. tad vo <'>bhidhāsye śṛṇuta rājñaḥ praśnānusārataḥ ..53.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 2.10.51 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 40v
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāne dvitīyaskaṁdhe daśamo <'>dhyāyaḥ ..10.. .. samāpto <'>yaṁ dvitīyaskaṁdhaḥ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Filiation: | The thirteen manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania's Collection of Indic Manuscripts, Items 2617–2629 (UPenn 2617, UPenn 2618, UPenn 2619, UPenn 2620, UPenn 2621, UPenn 2622, UPenn 2623, UPenn 2624, UPenn 2625, UPenn 2626, UPenn 2627, UPenn 2628, UPenn 2629) constitute a set of related manuscripts that contains the complete text of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa with Śrīdharasvāmin's Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā. Three or four hands contributed to the set. It is fairly certain that UPenn 2617, UPenn 2622, and UPenn 2624 were written by the same hand; that UPenn 2618, UPenn 2620, UPenn 2621, UPenn 2625, UPenn 2627, and UPenn 2629 were written by a second hand; and UPenn 2619 and UPenn 2626 were written by a third hand. UPenn 2628. UPenn 2628 was written by the third hand (with UPenn 2619 and UPenn 2626) and the second hand (with UPenn 2618, etc. Despite similarity to manuscripts written by the second hand, UPenn 2623 has some distinctive characteristics, such as the shape of the syllable o~, that suggest that it is written by a fourth hand. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1r–40v |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | Skandha 2 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
dvitīye tu daśādhyāy!e!<aiḥ> śrībhāgavatam āditaḥ .. uddeśalakṣaṇoktibhyāṁ saṁkṣepeṇopavarṇyate ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 2, p. 1, 2.1 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 40v
rājñ!aḥ!<ā> pṛṣṭa ity ayam arthaḥ .. yad yūyaṁ pṛ<c>(cha)tha idam eva rājāpi śukaṁ pṛṣṭavān śuko <'>pi viduramaitreyasaṁvādaṁ puraskṛtya ye pūrvaṁ rājñā kṛtāḥ .. praśnāḥ tadanusāreṇa sarvapurāṇārtham avocat .. tad eva ahaṁ te <'>bhidhāsyāmi tathaiva śṛṇuta iti ..53.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 2, p. 507, ad 2.10.51 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 40v
iti śrībhāvarthadīpikāyāṁ dvitīyaskaṁdhe daśamo <'>dhyāyaḥ .. 10 .. |
Explicit: |
f. 40v
śrīmadbhāgavataṁ yena sva!v!<b>rahmamukhato !di!<mi>taṁ .. !v!<b>ramanāradayo<ḥ> proktaṁ taṁ vaṁde gurum īśvaram .. 1 .. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 2, p. 507, following 2.10.51 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Fine country-made paper |
Extent: | 42 folia |
Dimension: | 21.5 x 31.6 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio, except f. 1v , f. 5v , f. 16v , f. 40v , where the number is missing in the lower right margin. A blank folio is placed at the front and another at the back of the manuscript. The front of the first non-blank folio ( f. 1r ) is also blank. The numeral foreign 22 is erroneously written in the lower right margin on f. 21v , though the leaf is correctly numbered in the upper left margin. |
Formula: | [i], 1–40, [ii] |
Signatures: | śrī0 bhāga0 dvi ṭī0 is written above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma is written above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio. The latter is lacking on f. 15v, f. 17v, f. 24v, f. 27v–f. 29v, f. 32v–f. 36v and folios missing the number in the lower right margin. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good. Folios 2–16 have insect damage in the right margin. On folios 17–23 (f. 18r–f. 23v) the insect damage affects a few akṣaras in the commentary. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. [i]r and f. [ii]v reads Library University Pennsylvania. Beside the stamp on f. [i]r is stuck a white label on which is hand-written ‘2618’. |
Layout: | Written in 14–23 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. The layout of f. 25r is oriented upside down with respect to f. 25v. Most pages continue the base text, commentary, or both vertically up the right margin. |
Hand 1: | Written in small, clear, bold, regular characters, erect or tilted forward, in slightly wavy lines. |
Additions: |
On f. [ii]v, ‘(2)’, indicating the number of the skandha, is written. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. There are minor marginal and interlinear corrections in the original hand. |
Color: | Double daṇḍas and every other syllable of final rubrics are written in red. Yellow is used to cover mistakes. |
Origin: | According to the colophon in UPenn 2627, the twelfth skandha in the set of which this manuscript is a part, was completed on 3 January 1825 A.D., by Danapata on the bank of the river candraBAgA. |
Provenance: | According to the colophon in the square panel inset in the center of f. 1v of UPenn 2622, the first skandha in the set of which this manuscript is a part, the manuscript was presented on 26 July 1911 A.D., to aniruddha, the narrator of the story of the supreme person, in bhuvaneśvara by villū, of the kauśalya gotra, who dwellt in the village nuhelā. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 2. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |