Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2396
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1312

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1r-4v (complete)
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Incipit: f. 1r:
rājovāca || kathito vaṃśavistāro bhavatā somasūryayoḥ ||
rājñāṃ cobhayavaṃśyānāṃ caritaṃ maramādbhutaṃ ||1||
Explicit: f. 4v:
ugrasenaṃ ca pitaraṃ yadubhojāndhakādhipam |
svayaṃ nigṛhya bubhuje śūrasenān mahābalaḥ ||70||
(BhP. 10.01.096cd)
Final rubric: f. 4v:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamasva{skaṃ}dhe kṛṣṇāvatāro nāmaprathamodhyāyaḥ ||1||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:4
Dimension:10.7 x 24.2 cm
Collation:single folia
Condition:Excellent
Layout:Nine to ten lines per leaf. Folio 1 contains ten lines per side. Folios 2-4 contain nine lines per side.

Hands

Hand 1:Mistakes written over. A few marginal corrections
Additions:

Mistakes scribbled 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. 1r:
śrīgaṇeśāya nahaḥ || śrīkṛṣṇaparamātmane namaḥ || rājovāca || kathito vaṃśavistāro bhavatā somasūryayoḥ ||
rājñāṃ cobhayavaṃśyānāṃ caritaṃ maramādbhutaṃ ||1|| ...
f. 4v:
ugrasenaṃ ca pitaraṃ yadubhojāndhakādhipam |
svayaṃ nigṛhya bubhuje śūrasenān mahābalaḥ ||70||
(BhP. 10.01.069) iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamasva{skaṃ}dhe kṛṣṇāvatāro nāmaprathamodhyāyaḥ ||1|| rāma kṛṣṇa || ca ||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010