Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 391 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1366 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–24v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Karuṇāmṛta |
Incipit: |
f. 1r
õ namoṁ jīyakadaṁtāā daivāṁgaurīcāṁ yāsutā .. karuṅākarādayāṁ vaṁtālaṁbo darā ādīmurttī ..1.. namanamājhe sārajemāyeṁ .. majalāptapādṛṣṭī pāheṁ .. vāceṁhārī guṅagāyoṁ rau . sīsauyeṁ majayāvī ..2.. namanamājheṁ śrīgurunāthā . dayālakāveṁ jīsamarthā .. hārīguṇanāmāmṛtakathā .. vadavī ātāṁyathārucī .3.. |
Explicit: |
f. 24r–f. 24v
cītrabhā nyānāmasavatsare śrāvaṇamāsī .. bhomavāra trayodasī dīvasīgraṁthasaṁpūrṇasamā ābhītvaresī . jro tīsāvakāsaparīsīje .144. |
Final rubric: |
f. 24v
itī śrībhāgavṛte mahāpurāṇe . karuṇāmratagraṁtha saṁpūrṇam astu .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | Missing folios 15–16 containing verses 88–99. The final rubric situates the work in the Bhāgavatapurāṇa; yet the work is written in Mahārāṣṭrī Prākṛta rather than in Sanskrit. The closing verse –- which reads more like a colophon and may have been in a previous model manuscript –- states that the work was completed on Tuesday, on the thirteenth day (presumably in the bright fortnight) in the month of śrāvaṇa in the year called citrabhā, but provides neither the number of the year nor the era. Preceding verses provide some information about the author and place of composition. |
Language: | Mahārāṣṭrī Prākṛta in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper |
Extent: | 22 folia |
Dimension: | 10.4 x 14.9 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Numbered in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio. The paired folios 15–16 are missing. |
Formula: | 1–14, 17–24 |
Collation: | Paired folios. |
Formula: | 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, 11-12, 13–14, 17–18, 19–20, 21–22, 23–24 |
Condition: | Excellent with minor stains and cracked edges. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp in blue ink on the lower right of f. 24v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Accompanying material: | The native wrapping paper has written on it, ‘ karuṇāmṛtam (mahārāṣṭṛā-bhāṣāyām)’ |
Layout: | Written in 8 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular characters, tilted slightly left, in straight lines. |
Additions: |
In the top margin on f. 1r is written karuṇāmṛtam naṁ0 16 pa0 24 Mistakes are written over. |
Color: | Double daṇḍas are written in red. |
Border: | A set of vertical double red lines rules the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
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. |
SubjectLC: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |