Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2397
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1313

Contents

Work 1

Locus:ff. 1v–11r (complete)
Author:Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa
Title:Gajendropākhyāna
Part:adhyāya 2–4
Colophon:none
Note:The manuscript contains the Gajendropākhyāna, which occupies adhyāyas 2–4 of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa. The first line of the first verse of Adhyāya 5, not concerned with the story, is incidentally included in the copy, doubless because it appeared on the same page in the model.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script

   Work 1.1

   Locus:ff. 1v–5r (complete)
   Part:adhyāya 2
   Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīśukauvāca ..
āsīd girivaro rājaṁs trikūṭa iti viśru
taḥ ..
kṣīrodenāvṛtaḥ śrīmān yojanāyutam u<c> chritaḥ ..1..
Note:
BhP. 8.2.1
   Final rubric: f. 5r:
iti śrībhāgavate !mā!<ma>hāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁdhe ma
tvaṁtarānuvarṇane gajeṁdropākhyāne dvitīyo dhyāyaḥ ..
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.2

   Locus:ff. 5r–8v (complete)
   Part:adhyāya 3
   Final rubric: f. 8v:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁdhe tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ ..
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.3

   Locus:ff. 8v–11r (complete)
   Part:adhyāya 4
   Explicit: f. 11r:
śrīśuka uvāca ..
ity ādiśya hṛṣīkeśaḥ pradhmāya jalajottamaṁ ..
harṣayan vibu
dhānīkam āruroha khagādhipaṁ ..26..
Note:
BhP. 8.4.26
   Final rubric: f. 11r:
iti śrībhāgavate !mā!<ma>hāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁ
dhe caturtho dhyāyaḥ ..
   Colophon:None

   Work 1.4

   Locus:f. 11r (incomplete)
   Part:adhyāya 5
   Colophon:None

Physical description

Form:Folia
Material:Country paper.
Extent:11
Dimension:11 x 23.7 cm
Collation: Single folia.
Binding: Unbound.
Layout:Seven lines per page.

Hands

Hand 1:Written in clear, bold, regular characters tilted slightly forward in straight lines.
Hand 2:The rubric on the front cover, which erroneously identifies the manuscript as containing only BhP. 8.4, is in a different hand.
Additions:

Mistakes are scribbled over.

Decoration

Color:Orange powder is rubbed in over the invocation, final rubrics, introductions of speakers, and numbers.
Border:Vertical triple red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page.

History

Origin: 17–
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 – 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts – India – 18th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

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

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 1v,f. 2rf. 1v  f. 2r  
f. 2v,f. 3rf. 2v  f. 3r  
f. 3v,f. 4rf. 3v  f. 4r  
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 4v,f. 5rf. 4v  f. 5r  
f. 5v,f. 6rf. 5v  f. 6r  
f. 6v,f. 7rf. 6v  f. 7r  
f. 7v,f. 8rf. 7v  f. 8r  
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  

Facsimile

Whole imageIndividual pages
f. 8v,f. 9rf. 8v  f. 9r  
f. 9v,f. 10rf. 9v  f. 10r  
f. 10v,f. 11rf. 10v  f. 11r  


Transcription (Manuscript Layout)

aDyAya 2:
f.1v
Line 1: aṣṭamaskaṁdha caturthādhyāya
f.1v
Line 1: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ .. śrīśukauvāca .. āsīd girivaro rājaṁs trikūṭa iti viśru
Line 2: taḥ .. kṣīrodenāvṛtaḥ śrīmān yojanāyutam u<c> chritaḥ ..1.. [
f.5r
Line 2: [
iti śrībhāgavate !mā!<ma>hāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁdhe ma
Line 3: tvaṁtarānuvarṇane gajeṁdropākhyāne dvitīyo dhyāyaḥ ..
aDyAya 3:
[
f.8v
Line 6: [
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁdhe tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ ..
aDyAya 4:
[
f.11r
Line 5: [ śrīśuka uvāca .. ity ādiśya hṛṣīkeśaḥ pradhmāya jalajottamaṁ .. harṣayan vibu
Line 6: dhānīkam āruroha khagādhipaṁ ..26..
iti śrībhāgavate !mā!<ma>hāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṁ
Line 7: dhe caturtho dhyāyaḥ ..
aDyAya 5:
śrīśuka uvāca .. rājannuditam etat te hareḥ karmāghanāśanaṁ ..
Record revised:14 April 2012