Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2252 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1319 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–144v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | Skandha 10 pūrvārdha adhyāya 1–49 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
.. rājovāca .. kathito vaṁśavistāro bhavatā somasūryayoḥ .. rājñāṁ cobhayavaṁśyānāṁcaritaṁ paramādbhutam ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 10.1.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 144r
śaśaṁsa rāmakṛṣṇābhyāṁ dhṛtarāṣṭraviceṣṭitam .. pāṇdavān prati kauravya yadarthaṁ preṣitaḥ svayaṁ ..31.. ( BhP. 10.49.31 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 144r
.. iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṁdhe pāramarhaṁsyasaṁhitāyām ekonapaṁcāśattamo dhyāyaḥ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | Text is complete, though two folios added by separate hand |
Filiation: | The eleven manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania's Collection of Indic Manuscripts, Items 2250–2254 (UPenn 2250, UPenn 2251, UPenn 2252, UPenn 2253, UPenn 2254) and 2380–2385 (UPenn 2380, UPenn 2381, UPenn 2382, UPenn 2383, UPenn 2384, UPenn 2385) constitute a set of manuscripts of all but two skandhas (skandhas 7 and 11) of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa with Śrīdharasvāmin's Bhāgavatabhāvārthadīpikā written by the same hand. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Locus: | ff. 1r–144v |
Author: | Śrīdharasvāmin |
Part: | ad skandha 10 pūrvārdha |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
viśvasargavisargādi navalakṣaṇalakṣitaṁ .. śrīkṣṇākhyaṁ paraṁ dhāma[ṁa] jagaddhāma namāma tat .1.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10.1, p. 1, ad 10.1.1 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Explicit: |
f. 144r
atas tam eva namasyati .. ya iti .. durvimarśapathayā avitarkamārgayā . guṇān karmāṇi tatphalāni ca vibhajate vivicya dadāti . durava!vo!<bo>dho yo vihāras tasya krīḍā sa taṁtraṁ pradhānaṁ mukhyaṁ kāraṇaṁ yasya saṁsāracakrasya .. ata eva tasya gatir yasmāt tasmai nama iti 29 ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10.4, p. 989, ad 10.49.29 ) abhipretya jñātvā ..30..31.. ( Kṛṣṇaśaṅkara Śāstrin 1965 vol. 10.4, p. 989, ad 10.49.30–31 ) |
Final rubric: |
f. 144r
iti śrī śrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṁ padabhāvārthadīpikāyām ekonapaṁcāśattamo dhyāyaḥ .. .. samāpto yaṁ pūrvārddhaḥ .. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 146 folia |
Dimension: | 15.3 x 34.6 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio, except the last which is numbered on the recto ( f. 144r ), and f. 37v , f. 46v , f. 87v , f. 95v – f. 96v , and f. 123v –f. 124, which are missing the number in the upper left margin, and f. 39v , f. 54v , f. 57v , and f. 133v , which are missing the number in the lower right margin. The number of the current chapter is indicated above the signature in the upper left margin on f. 1v – f. 84v , f. 101[a]v – f. 143v , f. 144r . The front and back ( f. 1r and f. 144v ) are blank except for the additions. Two folios are added after folio 100 and numbered 101/1 and 101/2 (on f. 101[a]v and f. 101[b]v ) while the number 3 is added below the number on the original f. 101[c]v . |
Formula: | 1–101[a], 101[b], 101[c]–144 |
Signatures: | bhā0 da0 pū0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on f. 1v–f. 100v and f. 101[c]v–f. 143v, and f. 144r, except on f. 87v where no signature appears. The full title bhāgavatadaśamapūrvārdha is written above the number in the upper left margin on f. 101[a], as is bhāgavatadaśamapū0 on f. 101[b]. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Good. There is water damage on the right of f. 118–f. 124, and worm damage on the upper left margin of f. 15. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. 144v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 11–14 lines per page in an hourglass arrangement with commentary above and below the base text. |
Hand 1: | Same scribe and style as UPenn 2250, UPenn 2251, UPenn 2253, UPenn 2254. |
Hand 2: | Folios 101[a] and 101[b] are added, written in a different hand, to fill a gap in the original hand. The numerals 1 and 2 are written beneath the numeral 101 on f. 101[a]v and f. 101[b]v and 3 is added beneath the numeral on the verso of f. 101[c], which is written in the original hand. The addition covers <BhP.10.4.1–28>. |
Additions: |
The rubric atha śrīmadbhāgavate daśamaskaṁdhaḥ is written in a second hand on f. 1r as is the number of the skandha, i.e. 10, on f. 144v. On f. 1r a third hand adds two benedictory verses and a third line announcing the beginning of the tenth skanDa, and making an attribution of ownership. There are marginal corrections and lengthy additions, e.g. on f. 45r, f. 84v, f. 130v, and f. 138v. |
Color: | Double daṇḍas in the base text and some of the commentary are written in red or bright orange. Mistakes are covered over with yellow, e.g. on f. 57v, are written over, or are crossed out, e.g. f. 58r. Orange powder is rubbed in over invocation, final rubrics, introductions of speakers, and numbers. |
Border: | Vertical double red and brown lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
Provenance: | The addition by a third hand on f. 1r attributes ownership of the manuscript to Vinayaka Śāstrī. |
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 – 10. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |