Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2352
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1359

Contents

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–14v
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:Skandha 10
Colophon:none
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

   Work 1.1 (complete)

   Locus:ff. 1r–13v
   Part:Adhyāya 87
   Incipit: f. 1r
parikṣid uvāca ..
brahman brahmaṇy anirdeśye nirguṇe guṇavṛttayaḥ ..
kathaṁ caranti śrutayaḥ sākṣāt sadasataḥ pare ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 10.87.1 )
   Explicit: f. 13v
yo !t!<'>syotprekṣaka ādimadhyanidhane yo <'>vyaktajīveśvaro
yaḥ sṛṣṭvedam anupraviṣṭa ṛṣiṇā cakre puraḥ śāsti tāḥ ..
yaṁ sampadya jahāty ajām anuśayī suptaḥ kulāyaṁ yathā
taṁ kaivalyanirastayonim abhayaṁ dhyāyed ajasraṁ harim ..50.. ( BhP. 10.87.50 ) (Śārdūlavikrīḍita)
   Final rubric: f. 13v
itiśrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁde saptāśītitamo <'>dhyāyaḥ .. ..87.. ..

   Work 1.2 (incomplete)

   Locus:f. 14r
   Part:Adhyāya 86.56–59
   Incipit: f. 14r
carācaram idaṁ viśvaṁ bhāvā ye cāsya hetavaḥ ..
madrūpāṇīti cetasy ādhatte vipro madīkṣayā ..56.. ( BhP. 10.86.56 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
   Explicit: f. 14r
evaṁ svabhaktayo rājan bhagavān bhāktabhaktimān ..
uṣitvādiśya sanmārgaṁ punar dvāravatīm agāt ..59.. ( BhP. 10.86.59 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
   Final rubric: f. 14r
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe maithilasadgatiprāpaṇaṁ nāma ṣaḍaśītitamaḥ ..86..

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:ff. 1r–14v
Author:Śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 10
Colophon:none
Note:The manuscript contains the text of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa with Śrīdharasvāmin's commentary Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā on skandha 10, adhyaya 87 on f. 1rf. 13v. On f. 14r is found the text and commentary on 10.86.56–59, and the commentary's introduction to 10.87 again. There are minor variations between the first and second copies of the five introductory verses to 10.87. The inclusion of the text on f. 14r out of sequence cannot be explained by a misplaced folio, since the folio is attached to f. 13, nor by an addition, since it is written in the same hand. Apparently the scribe began to copy again from the incorrect location in the model manuscript or from a different manuscript.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

   Work 2.1 (complete)

   Locus:ff. 1r–13v
   Part:ad skandha 10, adhyāya 87
   Incipit: f. 1r
saptāśītitame nārāyaṇanāradavādataḥ ..
vedai<ḥ> stutir guṇālaṁbā nirguṇāvadhi<r> varṇyate ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
õn namo bhagavate vāsudevāya .. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. )
vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr yasya ca vakṣasi ..
yasyāste hṛdaye saṁvit taṁ nṛsi<ṁ>ham ahaṁ bhaje ..2.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
   Explicit: f. 13v
<...>
kuta etat kaivalyanirastayoniṁ kaivalyenāpracyutasvarūpāvasthānena nirastā tiraskṛtā yonir mūlkāraṇaṁ [?][?]a yena tam .. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 1447, ad 10.87.50 )
   Final rubric: f. 13v
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe saptāśīti!t!<>tamodhyāyaḥ ..

   Work 2.2 (complete)

   Locus:f. 14r
   Part:ad 10.86.56–59
   Incipit: f. 14r
asya viśvasya hetavo bhāvāḥ mahadādayaḥ madīkṣayā ma[dai](mai)vasarvakṣetreyāḥ ..56.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 924, ad 10.86.56 )
   Explicit: f. 14r
sanmārgaṁ satāṁ vedānāṁ (tri)kāṇḍakriyāṇāṁ pravṛttiprakāram ādiśya ..59.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 928, ad 10.86.59 )
   Final rubric: f. 14r
iti daśame ṣaḍaśītiḥ ..

   Work 2.3 (complete)

   Locus:f. 14r
   Part:Introduction to 10.87, verses 1–5
   Incipit: f. 14r
saptāśītitame nārāyaṇanāradavādataḥ .
vedai<ḥ> stutir guṇālaṁbā nirguṇāvadhir varṇyate ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
   Explicit: f. 14r
evaṁ svabhaktayo rājan bhagavān bhaktabhaktimān ..
uṣitvādisya sanmārgaṁ puna<r> dvāravatīm agāt ..5.. ( BhP. 10.86.59 ) (Anuṣṭubh)

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:European paper
Watermark:A large crown and some text (e.g., "BRI"), likely the same as in UPenn 2184, although the paper is here cut in the opposite direction.
Extent:14 folia
Dimension:10.5 x 30.9 cm (h x w)
Foliation: Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio on f. 2v , f. 4v , and f. 6v . The enumeration is continued in a different hand in the lower right corner of f. 8v , f. 10v , f. 12v , and f. 14v . The front and back, f. 1r and f. 14v , are blank except for the addition of the number on the back.
   Formula:[1], 2, [3], 4, [5], 6, [7], 8, [9], 10, [11], 12, [13]–14
   Signatures:bhā0 da0 ve0 87 is written above the folio number in the upper left margin on f. 2v, f. 4v, and f. 6v.
Collation: Paired folios.
Formula:1–2, 3–4, ..., 13–14
Condition:Very good. There is a grease stain on f. 2
Binding: Unbound
Seal: A circular stamp on the right of f. 14v reads Library University Pennsylvania.
Layout:Written in 13–16 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. However, on f. 14r the commentary picks up in the middle of line 8, at the end of a half line of base text.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in small bold, regular characters in cramped, wavy lines.
Additions:

Mistakes are written over, crossed through, or blotched out with black.

Decoration

Border:Two or more vertical black lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

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:Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 10. skandha.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 19th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Record history

Revised: 22 April 2012

Facsimile  (work )

Whole image     Individual pages
f. [1]r     f. [1]r  
f. [1]v, f. 2r     f. [1]v  f. 2r  
f. 2v, f. [3]r     f. 2v  f. [3]r  
f. [3]v, f. 4r     f. [3]v  f. 4r  
f. 4v, f. [5]r     f. 4v  f. [5]r  
f. [5]v, f. 6r     f. [5]v  f. 6r  
f. 6v, f. [7]r     f. 6v  f. [7]r  
f. [7]v, f. 8r     f. [7]v  f. 8r  
f. 8v, f. [9]r     f. 8v  f. [9]r  
f. [9]v, f. 10r     f. [9]v  f. 10r  
f. 10v, f. [11]r     f. 10v  f. [11]r  
f. [11]v, f. 12r     f. [11]v  f. 12r  
f. 12v, f. [13]r     f. 12v  f. [13]r  
f. [13]v, f. [14r     f. [13]v  f. [14r  
f. [14v     f. [14v  


Transcription (text structure)


Adhyāya 87:

Mūla:
parikṣid uvāca ..
brahman brahmaṇy anirdeśye nirguṇe guṇavṛttayaḥ ..
kathaṁ caranti śrutayaḥ sākṣāt sadasataḥ pare ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 10.87.1 )
<...>
yo !t!<'>syotprekṣaka ādimadhyanidhane yo <'>vyaktajīveśvaro
yaḥ sṛṣṭvedam anupraviṣṭa ṛṣiṇā cakre puraḥ śāsti tāḥ ..
yaṁ sampadya jahāty ajām anuśayī suptaḥ kulāyaṁ yathā
taṁ kaivalyanirastayonim abhayaṁ dhyāyed ajasraṁ harim ..50.. ( BhP. 10.87.50 ) (Śārdūlavikrīḍita)
itiśrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁde saptāśītitamo <'>dhyāyaḥ .. ..87.. ..
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ..
cha .. cha

Commentary:
saptāśītitame nārāyaṇanāradavādataḥ ..
vedai<ḥ> stutir guṇālaṁbā nirguṇāvadhi<r> varṇyate ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
õn namo bhagavate vāsudevāya .. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. )
vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr yasya ca vakṣasi ..
yasyāste hṛdaye saṁvit taṁ nṛsi<ṁ>ham ahaṁ bhaje ..2.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
<...>
<...>
kuta etat kaivalyanirastayoniṁ kaivalyenāpracyutasvarūpāvasthānena nirastā tiraskṛtā yonir mūlkāraṇaṁ [?][?]a yena tam .. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 1447, ad 10.87.50 )
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe saptāśīti!t!<>tamodhyāyaḥ ..
śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu .
śrī rāma jaya rāma jaya jaya rāma ..
cha ..
śrī rāma jaya rāma jaya jaya rāma ..
cha ..
śrī rāma jaya rāma ..

Adhyāya 86:

Mūla:
carācaram idaṁ viśvaṁ bhāvā ye cāsya hetavaḥ ..
madrūpāṇīti cetasy ādhatte vipro madīkṣayā ..56.. ( BhP. 10.86.56 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
<...>
<...>
evaṁ svabhaktayo rājan bhagavān bhāktabhaktimān ..
uṣitvādiśya sanmārgaṁ punar dvāravatīm agāt ..59.. ( BhP. 10.86.59 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe maithilasadgatiprāpaṇaṁ nāma ṣaḍaśītitamaḥ ..86..
.. śrīgopīvallabhārpaṇam astu ..
.. cha .. ..

Commentary:
asya viśvasya hetavo bhāvāḥ mahadādayaḥ madīkṣayā ma[dai](mai)vasarvakṣetreyāḥ ..56.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 924, ad 10.86.56 )
sanmārgaṁ satāṁ vedānāṁ (tri)kāṇḍakriyāṇāṁ pravṛttiprakāram ādiśya ..59.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 928, ad 10.86.59 )
iti daśame ṣaḍaśītiḥ ..

Adhyāya 87b:

Commentary:
saptāśītitame nārāyaṇanāradavādataḥ .
vedai<ḥ> stutir guṇālaṁbā nirguṇāvadhir varṇyate ..1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
õnnamo bhagavate vāsudevāya .. .. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. )
vāgīśā yasya vadane lakṣmīr yasya ca vakṣasi ..
yasyāste hṛdaye saṁvit taṁ nṛsiṁham ahaṁ bhaje ..2.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
saṁpradāyaviśudhyarthaṁ svīyanirvaṁdhayaṁtritaḥ ..
śrutismṛtimitavyākhyāṁ kariṣyāmi yathāmati!ḥ!<> ..3.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
śrīmadbhāgavataṁ pūrvaiḥ sārataḥ sanniṣevitam .
mayā tu tadupaspṛṣṭam ucchiṣṭam upacīyate ..4.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. ) (Anuṣṭubh)
pūrvādhyāyāṁtare
evaṁ svabhaktayo rājan bhagavān bhaktabhaktimān ..
uṣitvādisya sanmārgaṁ puna<r> dvāravatīm agāt ..5.. ( BhP. 10.86.59 ) (Anuṣṭubh)
( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10, part 6, p. 932, 10.87 intro. )
.. cha .. śrīrāma ..