Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2310
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1383

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1-35v (complete)
Author:kāṣīnātha
Incipit: ???:
guṇālaṃbeti || guṇānāṃ ālaṃba[o] āśrayaṇaṃ yasyāṃ sā nirguṇam avadhiḥ paryavasānabodhyaṃ yatra yathā syāt tathā yā vedakartṛkā stutiḥ sā atra varṇyata ity arthaḥ || svīyānāṃ chātrāṇāṃ nirbaṃdhe navaśīkṛtaḥ || śrīmad iti || pūrvaiḥ ṭīkākāraiḥ sanni(vitaṃ vyākhyātaṃ ||
Final rubric: f. 35r:
iti śrīmad anaṃtopādhyāya sūnu kāśīnāthopādhyāya viracitā vedastutau śrīdharīyaṭīkā vyākhyā samāptā ||
Colophon: f. 35r:
idaṃ pustakaṃ moreśvarasya sūnur aṃganātha marāṭhe dīkṣitasya śa[e]ke 1765 śobhakṛn nāma saṃvatsare mārga[śra]śīrṣakṛṣṇasaptabyāṃ śrīvā īkṣe tre samāptā likhitaṃ nārāyaṇena ||[7]|| ... graṃthasaṃkhyā 111
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:European paper with watermarks; has some kind of crest with a figure or animal in the middle (cut off); some lettering, an "A" and possibly "MO"; a "GW"{? definitely a "W"}; "IS"; "ARD" and possibly a "40"; possibly "GW" , the "S" again; may be "GWA"? uncertain of A. Starting fol. 17, ms uses different paper and differnt watermarks: LA. . DH? , with "18";; same crest as above. . .; possibly 1849 as a "49" in exact opposite place. . . someing - "Din" Maybe the Britania crest.; maybe 1840 or 1842 as well. . . (see p. 1663-aug13)
Extent:35
Dimension:9.8 x 30.9 cm
Foliation: formula: 1-35
Condition:good-very good, paper quite brittle

Hands

Additions:

mistakes covered over with yellow, but still very visible. A few marginal corrections and length additions.

Decoration

Color:mistakes covered over with yellow, but still very visible. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation and many lines.

History

Origin:nArAyaNa zaka 1765 [=1843]
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 -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

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Transcription

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || śrī pāṃḍuraṃgamāmampa pitarau ca gurūn budhān || śrīśrīdharī(ṭīkāyāvyākhyāṃ kurve śrutistuteḥ ||1|| guṇālaṃbeti || guṇānāṃ ālaṃba[o] āśrayaṇaṃ yasyāṃ sā nirguṇam avadhiḥ paryavasānabodhyaṃ yatra yathā syāt tathā yā vedakartṛkā stutiḥ sā atra varṇyata ity arthaḥ || svīyānāṃ chātrāṇāṃ nirbaṃdhe navaśīkṛtaḥ || śrīmad iti || pūrvaiḥ ṭīkākāraiḥ sanni(vitaṃ vyākhyātaṃ || ...
f. 35r:
... iti śrīmad anaṃtopādhyāya sūnu kāśīnāthopādhyāya viracitā vedastutau śrīdharīyaṭīkā vyākhyā samāptā || śrīr astu oṃ oṃ oṃ || śrīlakṣṃī nṛsiṃhārpaṇam astu || || idaṃ pustakaṃ moreśvarasya sūnur aṃganātha marāṭhe dīkṣitasya śa[e]ke 1765 śobhakṛn nāma saṃvatsare mārga[śra]śīrṣakṛṣṇasaptabyāṃ śrīvā īkṣe tre samāptā likhitaṃ nārāyaṇena ||7|| oṃ tat sat || graṃthasaṃkhyā 111
Record revised:September 2010