Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2377
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1335

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-82r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 4
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīparamahṃsāsvādita caraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya namaḥ || || śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ || athaikatriṃśatādhyāyair visargasturya...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 4.1.1 Sb04_001 4.01.01-04.tif )
Explicit: f. 82r:
rājñāṃ [va]{ca}ritamiti śeṣa ||30||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 4.31.31 Sb04_805.tif )
Final rubric: f. 8:
iti śrībhāgavate caturthaskaṃdhe śamāpnam iti || || iti li†??†{khati} harīvaśaṃ†??† kāśī†???† || ||
Filiation:UP2374, UP2375, UP2376, UP2378, UP2379, all of which have clear textual filiation; and possibly with UP2373.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-82r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 4
Incipit: f. 1v:
maitreya uvāca || || manos tu śatarupāyāṃ tisraḥ kanyāśca jajñire ||
akutir devahūtir iti viśrutāḥ ||1||
(BhP. 04.1.1 Sb04_001 4.02.02-04.tif )
Explicit: f. 82r:
etadyaḥ śṛṇuyād rājan rājñāṃ haryarpitātmanāṃ |
āyur dhanaṃ yaśaḥ svasti gatim aiśvaryam āpnuyāt ||30|| ||
(cf. BhP. 04.31.31 Sb04_805.tif )
Final rubric: f. 82r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe caturthaskaṃdhe āṣṭādaśasahasyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pravetasopākhyānaṃ nāmaikatriṃśodhyāyaḥ || caturthaskaṃdhaḥ samāptaḥ ||
(cf. BhP. 04..31.31 Sb04_804.tif )
Filiation:UP2374, UP2375, UP2376, UP2378, UP2379, all of which have clear textual filiation; and possibly with UP2373. Compare, e.g., "bha" akṣaras in all three, which looks often more like "ta" or "la"
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:82
Dimension:15.1 x 37.4 cm
Collation:single folia
Condition:Good; some folios badly stained. The paper is very brown. Some black blotches. Some red blotches.
Layout:nine to eighteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1:Marignal and interlinear corrections in different hands. Lengthy marginal additions.

Decoration

Color:Some folios show signs of having been colored yellow once. Some folios later than others. Some double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, some colophons, some introductions of speakers, and some lines in red. Orange powder rubbed in over some colophons, some introductions of speakers, and some numbers. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over.

History

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

f. 1v:
Commentary:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || śrīparamahṃsāsvādita caraṇakamalacinmakaraṃdāya bhaktajanamānasanivāsāya śrīrāmāya namaḥ || || śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ || athaikatriṃśatādhyāyair visargasturya...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 4.1.1 Sb04_001 4.01.01-04.tif ) mū:
śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṃhāya namaḥ || || maitreya uvāca || || manos tu śatarupāyāṃ tisraḥ kanyāśca jajñire ||
akutir devahūtir iti viśrutāḥ ||1||...
(BhP. 04.1.1 Sb04_001 4.02.02-04.tif )
f. 82r:
Commentary:
rājñāṃ [va]{ca}ritam iti śeṣa ||30||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 4.31.31 Sb04_805.tif ) iti śrībhāgavate caturthaskaṃdhe śamāpnam iti || || iti li†??†{khati} harīvaśaṃ†??† kāśī†???† || || mū:
... etadyaḥ śṛṇuyād rājan rājñāṃ haryarpitātmanāṃ |
āyur dhanaṃ yaśaḥ svasti gatim aiśvaryam āpnuyāt ||30|| ||
(cf. BhP. 04.31.31 Sb04_805.tif ) iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe caturthaskaṃdhe āṣṭādaśasahasyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pravetasopākhyānaṃ nāmaikatriṃśodhyāyaḥ || caturthaskaṃdhaḥ samāptaḥ ||
(cf. BhP. 04..31.31 Sb04_804.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010