Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2175
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1307

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r-11v (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 10, adhyāya 59-60
Incipit: f. 1v:
rājovāca || yathā hato bhagavatā ...
(BhP 10.59.1)
Explicit: f. 10v:
gṛhamedhīyān dharmāl lokagurur hariḥ ||59||
(BhP 10.60.59)
Final rubric: f. 10v:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṃdhe rukmiṇīsaṃvāde ṣaṣṭinamo dhyāyaḥ ||
Note: (Knudsen) F. 11r is blank.
f. 11v:
ita śrīmadbhāgavatadaśamaskaṃdhe rukmiṇīsaṃvāde adhyāyaḥ
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:European paper, browned, chain lines.
Watermark:Watermark on f. 5, shield with cross on top (text obscures content of shield), visible on f. 11: Lady Britannia inside the shield.
Extent:11
Dimension:10.4 x 19.8 cm
Foliation:11 leaves, foliated 1-11.
formula: 1-11
Condition:Good condition.
Layout:9 lines per page. 7 lines on 10v.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes covered over with yellow.
Border:Red vertical lines about each side of the text.

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:Puranas -- Bhāgavatapurāṇa -- 10. skandha -- 59-60. adhyāya.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:
śrīkṛṣṇa atha śrībhāgavatāṃtargatapārijātādhyāyaprāraṃbhaḥ
f. 1v:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || śrīma[ā]dbhāgavatāṃtaraśrīpārijātakākhyāna || rājovāca || yathā hato bhagavatā ...
(BhP. 10.59.1)
f. 10v:
... gṛhamedhīyān dharmāl lokagurur hariḥ ||59||
(BhP. 10.60.59) iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṃdhe rukmiṇīsaṃvāde ṣaṣṭinamo dhyāyaḥ || śrīgopālakṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ||
f. 11v:
ita śrīmadbhāgavatadaśamaskaṃdhe rukmiṇīsaṃvāde adhyāyaḥ
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010