Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:1378
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:2464

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1r–14v (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Vedastuti
Part:adhyāya 87
Incipit: f. 1v:
pa[i]rīkṣid [au]()vāca ..
brahma
n brahmaṇy anirdeśye nirguṇe guṇavṛttayaḥ ..
ka
thaṁ caraṁti śrutayaḥ sākṣāt sadasataḥ pare ..1
Note:
BhP. 10.87.1
Explicit: f. 13r:

yo
syotprekṣaka ādimadhyanidhanaṁ yo vyaktajī
veśvaro yaḥ sṛṣṭvedam anupraviśya ṛṣiṇā[ṁ] cakre
puraḥ śāsti tāḥ ..
yaṁ sampadya jahāty ajām anu
śayī suptaḥ kulāyaṁ yathā taṁ kaivalyanirasta
yonim abhayaṁ dhyāyed ajasraṁ harim ..50..
Note:
BhP. 10.87.50
Final rubric: f13r-f13v:
iti śrī mahābhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁ
dhe vedakṛtabrahmastutir nāma saptāśititamo
dhyāyaḥ ..
Colophon:none
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Paper.
Extent:13
Dimension:10.2 x 15.5 cm
Collation: Paired folios.
Formula:[1]–2, [3]–4, [5]–6, [7]–8, [9]–10, [11]–12, 13–[14]
Condition:Excellent.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Written in seven lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted slightly forward in straight lines.
Hand 2:The title on the back, f. [14]v, is an addition in a different hand, which may be the same hand that corrected the numeral 2 into a 3 and added a 1 before it on f. 13v.
Additions:

On the back of the last folio, f. [14]v is written the title of the selection, “vedastuti”

.

Mistakes are covered over with yellow. There are a few marginal corrections.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes are covered over with yellow.

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

Facsimile

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


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

aDyAya 87:
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ .. pa[i]rīkṣid [au]()vāca .. brahma
Line 2: n brahmaṇy anirdeśye nirguṇe guṇavṛttayaḥ .. ka
Line 3: thaṁ caraṁti śrutayaḥ sākṣāt sadasataḥ pare ..1 [
f.13r
Line 1: yo
Line 2: syotprekṣaka ādimadhyanidhanaṁ yo vyaktajī
Line 3: veśvaro yaḥ sṛṣṭvedam anupraviśya ṛṣiṇā[ṁ] cakre
Line 4: puraḥ śāsti tāḥ .. yaṁ sampadya jahāty ajām anu
Line 5: śayī suptaḥ kulāyaṁ yathā taṁ kaivalyanirasta
Line 6: yonim abhayaṁ dhyāyed ajasraṁ harim ..50..

..


Line 7:
iti śrī mahābhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁ
f.13v
Line 1: dhe vedakṛtabrahmastutir nāma saptāśititamo
Line 2: dhyāyaḥ .. śrīrāmacaṁdra .. ca .. ca ..
f.14v
Line 1: vedastuti
Record revised:15 April 2012