Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2622
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1350

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-59v (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 1
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīparamahaṃsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya |
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 05.1.1.0 Sb01_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 59v:
iti śrī{bha}ga{va}te {ma}hā{pu}rā{ṇe} pra{tha}ma{skaṃ}dhe {e}ko{na}viṃ{śo}dhyā sa{mā}ptam 19
(BhP.S.BhD. 01.19.40.1 Sb01_809.tif )
Filiation:UP2618, UP2620, UP2621, and UP2627; likely filiation with UP2617, UP2623, and UP2624; and possible affiliation with UP2619, UP2626 and UP2628.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 2v-59v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 1
Incipit: f. 2v:
oṃ janmādyasya...
(BhP. 01.01.1 Sb01_001.tif )
Explicit: f. 59v:
... pratyabhāṣata dharmajño bhagavān bādarāyaniḥ ||39||
(BhP. 01.19.40 Sb01_808.tif )
Final rubric: f. 59v:
i{ti} śrī{bha}ga{va}te {ma}hā{pu}rā{ṇe} pr{tha}ma{skaṃ}dhe {e}ko{na}viṃ{śa}mo{'dhyā}yaḥ mā m |
(cf. BhP. 01.19.40 Sb01_808.tif )
Filiation:UP2618, UP2620, UP2621, and UP2627; likely filiation with UP2617, UP2623, and UP2624; and possible affiliation with UP2619, UP2626 and UP2628.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper. Thicker stock of paper used from ff. 24r-39v.
Extent:59
Dimension:18.5-19; folios vary x 31-35; folios vary cm
Collation:single folia
Condition:fair-good; has hole in ms, but is very readable. Lower part of manuscript badly worm-eaten on most folios, destroying part of the text on some folios.
Layout:twelve to twenty-two lines.

Hands

Hand 1:Additions made in different hands. A secondary set of numbers is written on the bottom right corner of some folios. A different scribe writes ff. 24r-39v:
(BhP.1.7.57-1.???)

Decoration

Color:A few double daṇḍas some colophons, every other syllable of some colophons, some introductions of speakers, and every other syllable of some introductions of speakers, in red. Some of text inset in purplish red f. 1v. Some mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over some introductions of speakers and some words. The letters and double daṇḍas in red have not been written in on a number of folios. No red daṇḍas are written by second scribe ff. 24r-39v. Purple text written in inset panel at f. 1r.

History

Origin:

“saṃmat 1968 puruṣottame āṣāḍhe kṛṣṇā'māvasyāyāṃ bhuvaneśvarīsthale aniruddhe puruṣottamakathāvaktari nulehāgrāmanivāsinā villūkauśalyagotravatā samarpito {'}yaṃ graṃthaḥ”

Provenance: bhuvanezvar
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. ”

Facsimile

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Transcription

Commentary:
saṃmat 1968 puruṣottame āṣāḍhe kṛṣṇā'māvasyāyāṃ bhuvaneśvarīsthale aniruddhe puruṣottamakathāvaktari nulehāgrāmanivāsinā villūkauśalyagotravatā samarpito{'}yaṃ graṃthaḥ
f. 1v:
oṃ svasti śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || oṃ śrīparamahaṃsāsvāditacaraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya | ...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 05.1.1.0 Sb01_001.tif ) mū:
f. 2v:
oṃ janmādyasya ...
(BhP. 01.01.1 Sb01_001.tif )
f. 59v:
Commentary:
iti śrī{bha}ga{va}te {ma}hā{pu}rā{ṇe} pra{tha}ma{skaṃ}dhe {e}ko{na}viṃ{śo}dhyā sa{mā}ptam 19 aryaṃ dharmajam āhatārim avanau kṛtvā parīkṣyā nṛpaṃ
brahmāstrād abhirakṣitaṃ kalijayakhyātaṃ ca kṛtvā bhuvi
aṃte yaḥ śukarūpataḥ svaparamājñānopadeśena taṃ
śāpādāvadamuṃ namāmi paramānaṃdākṛtiṃ mādhavaṃ || || ||
(BhP.S.BhD. 01.19.40.1 Sb01_809.tif ) mū:
... pratyabhāṣata dharmajño bhagavān bādarāyaniḥ ||39||
(BhP. 01.19.40 Sb01_808.tif ) i{ti} śrī{bha}ga{va}te {ma}hā{pu}rā{ṇe} pr{tha}ma{skaṃ}dhe {e}ko{na}viṃ{śa}mo{'dhyā}yaḥ mā m | śubham astu sarvajagatām ||
(cf. BhP. 01.19.40 Sb01_808.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010