Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 47 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1303 |
Locus: | f. ?-? (incomplete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | bhāgavatapurāṅa |
Part: | skandha 10 |
Incipit: |
f. 1r, lines 1-2: śrīhayagrīvāyanamaḥ || śrīkaṃṭhacāpakhaṃḍḍana | pākāripramukhavinutabhaṃḍḍanavilasa | tkākusthavaṃśśamaṃḍḍana | rākeṃdduyaśoviśālarāma nṛpālā || Note: First verse of the daśamaskaṃdhamu of the Potanna Bhagavatamu. |
Explicit: |
f. 121v, lines 6-7: yiṭlurukmiṇīdevivihariṃppumaṃḍḍalopala Note: Remaining cut off due to broken folio vi[V]arivalanavinikṛṣṇuṃḍudevakīvasudevuluṃdoḍ? unicanudeṃccisarvajñaṃḍḍayyununemiyuvivariṃppakayūrakuṃḍḍenaṃttanāraduṃḍḍucanudeṃcciśaṃbbaruṃḍḍukumāruniggonipoyinadi Note: This is not the end of the text. The final folios of this skandha appear to be missing. |
Language: | Telugu in Telugu script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Extent: | 170 |
Dimension: | 3.8 x 43.5 cm |
Foliation: | formula: [i-xiv], 1-22, [xv-xxiv], 23-31, [xxvi], 32-121, [xxvii-xxix] |
Condition: |
Fair condition; browned leaves; fraying at the edges; many cracked and split leaves that interfere with legibility; many worm holes that damage structural integrity and create lacunae; Some folios have considerable fading. One folio fragment broken off and kept in separate sleeve. Left end broken ; damaged and faded folio 39 Center broken and damaged folio 46 Center broken and damaged folio 47 Left margin broken off; folio number illegible folio 51 Top mid left edge broken; some illegible text folio 67 Left binding hole broken out causing loss of text folio 95 Right edge of folio broken with some loss of text: folio 120 & 121 Piece of right edge of folio broken off and kept in separate sleeve folio 120 |
Binding: |
Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes
Condition: good. |
Additions: |
Occassional “śrī” in margin Center note “śrīrāmulumādaivamuśrīrāmulumāku” folio [xv]r Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “mu” “karayu” folio [xv]r Note in left margin: “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “daśamaskaṃdhaṃ” folio 1r Note in left margin “śrīrāma” folio 86r |
Illustration: | ??flowers in some left margins?? |
Acquisition: |
(Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows:
Indic ManuscriptsA collection of fifty-three codices (not after 1800) in Burmese, Cambodian, Telugu Skandhas, Bengali, and Sinhalese script on palm leaves with lacquered wood covers tied with cords. Subjects include Buddhist canon, PÄlÄ« grammar and lexicons, Epics, Dance, Drama, and a treatise on midwifery and diseases of women. Recorded in ( A Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, by Horace I. Poleman, New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1938. ) Register available. Gift of Baptist missionaries to Burma, among whom was Adoniram Judson Brown Class of 1807, who first translated the Bible into Burmese. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Telugu |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
Record revised: | 25 December 2009 |
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