Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2621 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1349 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–81v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | skandha 5 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: śrī<rā>jo<vā>ca priyavrato bhāgavata ātmārāma<ḥ> kathaṁ mune gṛhe <'> ramata yanmūlaḥ karma!v!<b> aṁdhaḥ parābhavaḥ 1 Note: BhP. 5.1.1 |
Explicit: |
f. 81r: bhūdvīpavarṣasar!a!<i>dadrinabhaḥsamudra pātāladiṅnarakabhāgaṇalokasaṁ sthā .. gītā mayā tava nṛpādbhutam īśvarasya sthūlaṁ vapuḥ saka[va]lajīvanikāyadhāma ..30.. Note: BhP. 5.26.39 |
Final rubric: |
f. 81r: iti śrībhāgava te ma()purāṇe paṁcama<s>ka<ṁdhe>va<[?][?]>rī<[?][?]>saṁvāde narakānuvarṇanaṁ nāma ṣaḍviṁśatitamo <'> dhyāyaḥ ..samāpto <'> yaṁ paṁcamaskaṁdhaḥ .. .. |
Colophon: | none |
Filiation: | The thirteen manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania's Collection of Indic Manuscripts, Items 2617–2629 (UPenn 2617, UPenn 2618, UPenn 2619, UPenn 2620, UPenn 2621, UPenn 2622, UPenn 2623, UPenn 2624, UPenn 2625, UPenn 2626, UPenn 2627, UPenn 2628, UPenn 2629) constitute a set of related manuscripts that contains the complete text of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa with Śrīdharasvāmin's Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā. Three or four hands contributed to the set. It is fairly certain that UPenn 2617, UPenn 2622, and UPenn 2624 were written by the same hand; that UPenn 2618, UPenn 2620, UPenn 2621, UPenn 2625, UPenn 2627, and UPenn 2629 were written by a second hand; and UPenn 2619 and UPenn 2626 were written by a third hand. UPenn 2628. UPenn 2628 was written by the third hand (with UPenn 2619 and UPenn 2626) and the second hand (with UPenn 2618, etc. Despite similarity to manuscripts written by the second hand, UPenn 2623 has some distinctive characteristics, such as the shape of the syllable o~, that suggest that it is written by a fourth hand. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1r–81v (complete) |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | ad skandha 5 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: athātaḥ paṅcamaskandhavyākhyānekaniśeṣavān priyavratā[ntapo]() yatra saprapañcaḥ prapaṁc ate 1 Note: Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 5, p. 2, 5.1 intro. |
Explicit: |
f. 81r:
kathaṁbhūtā saṁsthā ..
sakalānāṁ .. jīvanikāyānāṁ .. dhāma āśrayabhūtaṁ vapuḥ ..()..
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Final rubric: |
f. 81r, right margin: iti śrībhāvārthadīpikāyāṁ paṁcamaskaṁdhe narakānuvarṇanaṁ nāma ṣadviṁśatitamo <'> dhyāyaḥ .. .. .. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Fine country-made paper. |
Extent: | 83 |
Dimension: | 19–22.5; folios vary x 32.5–34.5; folios vary cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Very good. The right margin on f. 31, the left side of the top margin on ff. 45–66, and the margins of ff. 80–81 have minor insect damage. A couple of milimeters at the extreme edges of several folios is crumpled; some worm eaten portions near end but not affecting text. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 11–18 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. The layout of f. 77r is oriented upside down. The base text and commentary are occasionally continued up the right margin (e.g. f. 3r, f. 7r, f. 25r, f. 75v, f. 81r). Space is left for red akṣaras in the speaker line on f. 1v and the final rubric on f. 81r, and for double daṇḍas on f. 1r and f. 1v, none of which have been written. |
Hand 1: | Written in small, clear, bold, regular characters, erect or tilted forward, in slightly wavy lines. |
Additions: |
On f. ir is written "(5)" indicating the number of the skandha. There are some marginal and interlinear corrections, lengthy ones on f. 36r, f. 65r, and f. 78r, and akṣara counts on f. 63v and f. 64r. Mistakes are covered over with yellow (f. 32v, f. 41v, f. 44v, f. 67v), or indicated by horizontal strokes (f. 1v), a vertical stroke (f. 81r), or wiggly lines (e.g. f. 1v, f. 32v, f. 34v, f. 36r) at the top of the akṣara. |
Color: | Double daṇḍas and practically every other syllable of final rubrics and introductions of speakers are written in red. Yellow is used to cover mistakes. |
Origin: | According to the colophon in UPenn 2627, the twelfth skandha in the set of which this manuscript is a part, was completed on 3 January 1825 A.D., by Danapata on the bank of the river candraBAgA . |
Provenance: | According to the colophon in the square panel inset in the center of f. 1v of UPenn 2622, the first skandha in the set of which this manuscript is a part, the manuscript was presented on 26 July 1911 A.D., to aniruddha, the narrator of the story of the supreme person, in bhuvaneśvara by villū, of the kauśalya gotra, who dwellt in the village nuhelā. |
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. ” |
SubjectLC: | Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 5. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
kathaṁbhūtā saṁsthā .. sakalānāṁ .. jīvanikāyānāṁ .. dhāma āśrayabhūtaṁ vapuḥ ..()..
Record revised: | 28 April 2012 |
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