Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2574
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1310

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v–7v (incomplete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Rāsakrīḍā
Part:adhyāya 29–33
Colophon: f. 7v:
liṣyataṁ vihārīdāsapaṭhanārthisvayaṁ .
Note:Although the title Rāsapañcādhyāyī does not appear in the manuscript, it is the proper term for the group of five chapters, adhyāyas 29-33 of the tenth skandha of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, that deals with the love-play of Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs called the Rāsalīlā or Rāsakrīḍā. The final rubrics of adhyāyas twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-two, and thirty-three all mention the title Rāsakrīḍā. One folio, f. 5 containing BhP. 10.31.1b–10.32.7a, is missing.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

   Work 1.1

   Locus:f1v-f3r (complete)
   Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīśuka uvāca ..
bhagavān api tā rātrīḥ śāradotphullamallikāḥ ..
vīkṣya raṁtuṁ manaś cakre yogamāyā
m upāśritaḥ ..1..
Note:
BhP. 10.29.1
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   Final rubric: f. 3r:
iti śrī
bhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ śrīkṛṣṇāṁtardhānam ekonatriṁ
śo 'dhyāyaḥ ..!2!<2>9..
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.2

   Locus:f3r-f4v (complete)
   Final rubric: f. 4v:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe vaiyāsikyāṁ da
śamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ bhagavadanv<e>ṣaṇaṁ nāma triṁśo dhyāyaḥ ..30..
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.3

   Locus:f. 4v–f. 5? (incomplete)
   Incipit: f. 4v:
gopya ūcu<ḥ> ..
jayati te <'>dhikaṁ janma<nā vrajaḥ>
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.4

   Locus:f. 5?–f. 6r (incomplete)
   Incipit: f. 6r:

aparānimiṣaddṛgbhyāṁ juṣā
ṇā tanmukhāmbujam .
āpītam api nātṛpyat santas tac caraṇaṁ yathā ..7..
   Final rubric: f. 6v:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe
daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ () dvātriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..32..
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.5

   Locus:f6r-f7v (complete)
   Explicit: f. 7v:

vikrīḍitaṁ vrajavadhūbhir idaṁ ca viṣṇoḥ śraddhānvito <'>nuśṛ
ṇuyād atha varṇayed yaḥ ..
bhaktiṁ parāṁ bhagavati pratilabhya kāmaṁ hṛdrogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ..39..
Note:
BhP. 10.33.39
   Final rubric: f. 7v:
iti śrībhā
gavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakṛīḍāyāṁ trayastriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..33..
   Colophon:None

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country paper.
Extent:6
Dimension:15.7 x 32.4 cm
Collation: Single folia.
Condition:Good, with the exception of tears that damage a few akśaras in the first line on f. 1v.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in fifteen lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted forward in straight lines.
Additions:

There are a few marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:The invocations, final rubrics, colophon, introductions of speakers, and double daṇḍas are written in red. Mistakes are covered over with yellow.
Border:Double vertical red lines border the text on the left and right margins.

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:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1rf. 1r  
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 6rf. 4v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7vf. 7v  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

f.1v
Line 1: śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ . śrīrādhākṛṣṇā<bhyāṁ> namaḥ .. śrīśukasyāmacaranadāsābhyāṁ namaḥ .. śrīgur<u>devebhyo na
Line 2: maḥ ..
aDyAya 29:
śrīśuka uvāca .. bhagavān api tā rātrīḥ śāradotphullamallikāḥ .. vīkṣya raṁtuṁ manaś cakre yogamāyā
Line 2: m upāśritaḥ ..1.. [ [
f.3r
Line 11: [
iti śrī
Line 12: bhāgavate mahāpurāṇe pāramahaṁsyāṁ saṁhitāyāṁ vaiyāsikyāṁ daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ śrīkṛṣṇāṁtardhānam ekonatriṁ
Line 13: śo 'dhyāyaḥ ..!2!<2>9..
aDyAya 30:
[
f.4v
Line 14: [
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe vaiyāsikyāṁ da
Line 15: śamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ bhagavadanv<e>ṣaṇaṁ nāma triṁśo dhyāyaḥ ..30..
aDyAya 31:
gopya ūcu<ḥ> .. jayati te <'>dhikaṁ janma<nā vrajaḥ> [missing 1 leaf, Missing folio 5 containing
BhP. 10.31.1b–10.32.7a ] aparānimiṣaddṛgbhyāṁ juṣā
f.64
Line 1: ṇā tanmukhāmbujam . āpītam api nātṛpyat santas tac caraṇaṁ yathā ..7.. [
f.6v
Line 2: [
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe
Line 3: daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakrīḍāyāṁ () dvātriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..32..
aDyAya 33:
[
f.7v
Line 13: [ vikrīḍitaṁ vrajavadhūbhir idaṁ ca viṣṇoḥ śraddhānvito <'>nuśṛ
Line 14: ṇuyād atha varṇayed yaḥ .. bhaktiṁ parāṁ bhagavati pratilabhya kāmaṁ hṛdrogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ..39..
iti śrībhā
Line 15: gavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe rāsakṛīḍāyāṁ trayastriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ ..33..
liṣyataṁ vihārīdāsapaṭhanārthisvayaṁ . śubham astu
Record revised:15 April 2012