Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2379
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1337

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-51r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 9
Incipit: f. 1v:
guṇā yaṃ guṇatāvāptyai vṛṇate karuṇānirdhiṃ |
(BhP.S.BhD. 9.1.1ab Sb09_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 1r:
iti śrībhāgavate bhāvāvate bhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvamiviracitāyāṃ tavamaskaṃdhe caturviṃśodhyāya || || śrīrāmacaṃdrasahād ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 09.24.67 Sb09_536.tif )
Filiation:UP2374, UP2375, UP2376, UP2377, UP2378, all of which have clear textual filiation; and possibly with UP2373.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-51r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 9
Incipit: f. 1v:
rājovāca ||0|| manvaṃtarāṇi sarvāṇi tvayoktāni śrutāni me |
(BhP. 09.1.1ab Sb09_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 51r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe navamaskaṃdhe pāramahaṃsyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ yaduvaṃśānukīrttanaṃ nāma caturviṃśodhyāyaḥ || || samāptoyaṃnamaskaṃdha iti ||
(cf. BhP. 09.24.67 Sb09_536.tif )
Filiation:UP2374, UP2375, UP2376, UP2377, UP2378, all of which have clear textual filiation; and possibly with UP2373. Compare, e.g., "bha" akṣaras in all three, which looks often more like "ta" or "la"
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:51
Dimension:15.1 x 37.2 cm
Foliation: f. 28v-30r; the 29th folio is written as f. 28; however, there is textual continuity between it and folio and f. 30
Collation:single folia
Condition:fair-good; paper is very brown and brittle and scotch tape is used on f. 13. f. 21r-v:
is damaged and missing part of the commentary on the bottom of f. 21r and at the top of 21v. On f. 51r:
the root text is bordered with dotted triangles on the left and right.
Layout:eleven to fourteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1:Marignal and interlinear corrections in different hands.

Decoration

Color:Some folios colored yellow and some folios show signs of having been colored yellow. Some double daṇḍas, the space between some double daṇḍas, some numbers, some colophons, every other syllable of invocation, some introductions of speakers in red. Orange powder rubbed in over some colophons, some introductions of speakers, and some syllables. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over.

History

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. ”

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1v:
Commentary:
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || || guṇā yaṃ guṇatāvāptyai vṛṇate karuṇānirdhiṃ | ...
(BhP.S.BhD. 9.1.1ab Sb09_001.tif ) mū:
rājovāca ||0|| manvaṃtarāṇi sarvāṇi tvayoktāni śrutāni me | ...
(BhP. 09.1.1ab Sb09_001.tif )
f. 51r:
Commentary:
... iti śrībhāgavate bhāvāvate bhāvārthadīpikāyāṃ śrīdharasvamiviracitāyāṃ tavamaskaṃdhe caturviṃśodhyāya || || śrīrāmacaṃdrasahād ||
(cf. BhP.S. BhD.09.24.67 Sb09_536.tif ) mū:
... iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe navamaskaṃdhe pāramahaṃsyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ yaduvaṃśānukīrttanaṃ nāma caturviṃśodhyāyaḥ || || samāptoyaṃnamaskaṃdha iti || rāma || || rāma ||
(cf. BhP. 09.24.67 Sb09_536.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010